Welcome to four more stories with the antics and
habits of Danny Best that kids love to read. Danny Best believes he is the best
at everything, and nothing in the
world can make him believe otherwise.
In Tongue
Tied, Danny has decided to break the world record of speaking with his
tongue out for twenty-four hours. This entails viewing masticated food, being
spat on as he’s talking, and all sorts of gross actions connected to saliva,
for a whole day.
Fab is employed to be witness and documenter of this great
feat. But there are challenges as usual, and choices to be made.
Can Danny
Best, the biggest self-believer, achieve what seems to be the impossible? Will
he overcome all the delays and obstacles described point-to-point that he
encounters on his road to success?
Big
Game Hunter is a special occasion for Danny. It warrants the
wearing of his Man of Steel watch. Puffer Point Pier is the gang’s destination.
And everyone else’s it seems! Their goal is to catch Old Yelloweye, a fish
which Danny claims in his scrapbook, is 120 years old. How will this be
possible when tiddlers are all anyone hooks, and these get thrown back into the
water? When Pugsley gets involved, he becomes an overnight sensation in the
newspapers.
There is a ‘bum-free’ story where Danny’s class is
set the task of writing a ‘wholesome’ story about family; as if that’s possible
for Danny’s class, and especially Danny. But the wily Danny Best has ways and
means of circumnavigating the set rules. Will he really get the Excellent he
believes his story is worth?
In the last entry, Boy Versus Wild, Danny is determined to experience the outback but
can’t get any of his friends to share the joy with him. They all appear to have something else to do.
Therefore it’s left to Danny’s boundless imagination to transform chickens into
pterodactyls, Pugsley into a feral pig, and anything available to him into what
he wants it to be. For Danny is a boy who always wins; someone full of
invention, undefeated in every situation, with a brain powered by brilliance.
Added to the astonishing and entertaining mayhem
that rules the pages, is a Goggle Map view of his area, pictures of all the
people with starring roles in the stories, posters, speech bubbles, four of The
Best Quiz, lots of other unbelievable things to discover and get hysterical
about, and and Mitch Vane’s magnificent illustrations that spice up every page.
Fans of Danny Best will love this one too, and long for the next instalment of
chaos and laughs.
Title:
Danny Best: Me First
Author:
Jen Storer
Illustrator:
Mitch Vane
Publisher:
Harper Collins
Publication
Date: 22 January 2018, $17.99
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780733333354
For
ages: 7+
Type:
Junior Fiction
