He only had three legs, one eye and he liked to listen to country music and he was quite tall and slim and he smelt really bad and that morning he got up early and he hadn't had any coffee and he was always getting up to mischief but he was quite good looking

Cowley said that while The Wonky Donkey has been a household name in Australia and New Zealand since it was first published in 2009, the book had been only “an underground success” in the UK. I was hoping to use this with children for the rhyming, but the language isn’t suitable. It’s basically an ‘amusing’ picture book based on forced rhyme. It was first published in New Zealand where, I assume, the language is used differently (ditto Australia) but it isn’t suitable for UK children. The Wonky Donkey is a 2009 children's book by New Zealander Craig Smith. [1] It is illustrated by British-born Katz Cowley, who has a degree in Illustration from the University of Northumbria. [2] He only had three legs, one eye and he liked to listen to country music and he was quite tall and slim and he smelt really bad and that morning he got up early and he hadn't had any coffee Cowley, Katz. "Katz Cowley ~ Award Winning Illustrator & Workshop Facilitator". Katz Cowley . Retrieved 29 March 2023.He only had three legs, one eye and he liked to listen to country music and he was quite tall and slim

I know children and adolescents love fart jokes (“stinky-dinky”) but it would cause so much distraction, it wouldn’t be worth it. He only had three legs, one eye and he liked to listen to country music and he was quite tall and slim and he smelt really really bad This article is about the 2009 book. For Ant & Dec's children's television programme phone-in game, see SMTV Live.Ewing, Isobel (13 November 2014). "Wonky Donkey author launches new book". Stuff.co.nz . Retrieved 10 June 2015. Hanky-panky” is used to describe “getting up to mischief”, but In the UK, it’s much more associated with sexual shenanigans, so inappropriate. The same goes for “spunky”, which may be used in New Zealand to mean “good looking”, but is not in common use here and is, again, quite sexualised. The video is gold. Watching Janice read and laugh was just delightful, and like many, her infectious laugh had me laughing too,” said Smith. “I’ve always wondered why sales had not taken off so much in the UK and US, but that looks like that’s about to change.” Although the picture book, which is illustrated by Katz Cowley, had sold more than 1m copies around the world to date, the majority of that was in Australia and New Zealand, said Smith, who hopes it will find a more global readership.

Using “wonky” in the context of a prosthetic leg isn’t a good start, then showing a bird carrying his missing eye is fairly horrific for “winky”. I can only imagine the barrage of questions that would follow this image! At Hachette, which publishes the book in the UK, group picture book director Emma Layfield said the publisher had already seen a “well-deserved jump in demand” for the book, “especially in Scotland”. The illustrations aren't terrible, style-wise. But I really question the wisdom of that one picture. In trying to be funny, the illustrator may have inadvertently caused a whole bunch of children to need therapy.

Honky-Tonky” means nothing to children, so that doesn’t work at all. If you have to give in-depth explanations to explain the ‘joke’, it falls flat.

He only had three legs, one eye and he liked to listen to country music and he was quite tall and slim and he smelt really bad and that morning he got up early and he hadn't had any coffee and he was always getting up to mischief Children's Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association. 2018 . Retrieved 7 January 2019. I am so glad that Wonky’s reputation has finally come to bite him on the bum on this side of the world thanks to ‘Wonky’s Guardian Granny’. I couldn’t be more delighted,” Cowley said, calling Clark “a reminder in life, when all else fails, to fall about laughing. She has a spirit like Wonky’s.”