This results in lots of characters from lots of different stories colliding and, of course, this leads to chaos (accompanied by "comedy saxophone music").

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Surrealism and children’s fiction is a perfect match. As Picasso said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ” And as Megan, aged 8, said about Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face and the Badness of Badgers, “Blueberry jam! I laughed so hard my head fell off. ”He worked as a primary school teacher in London during the 1990s and early 2000s, and during this period began to write stories for children. His first book was published in 2004 and he left teaching the same year to concentrate on his writing career. Niteracy Hour was shortlisted for the Nottingham Children's Book Prize 2006 and the Coventry Inspiration Raring 2 Read Award 2008 Remember what it was like? Those days when anything could happen; when, no matter what was needed by the story you were acting out, it could be imagined into existence? When you had no idea where your game of let ’s pretend was going to end up, but it was fun getting there?

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Find sources: "John Dougherty"author– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( May 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) The Fall of Julius Caesar (2017) - a retelling of the Shakespeare story for the Collins' Big Cats range John Dougherty was the sort of boy who always had his nose in a book, and he grew into the sort of adult who always has his nose in a book, which is probably why he decided to become a writer.CWIG committee". Society of Authors. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015 . Retrieved 2 April 2015. A Midsummer Night's Dream (2014) - a retelling of the Shakespeare story for the Collins' Big Cats range

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The article was one in which a chap by the name of Philip Howard examined the word ‘surreal’, explaining in a few column inches what it actually means. Apparently, the aim of surrealism was to explore the unconscious mind and “liberate thought from the constraints of logic”, whilst its practitioners “startled the conventional world with imaginary worlds in which natural laws were suspended”.Great Kerfuffle is really great. And there’s usually a kerfuffle (the clue’s in the name really). This particular kerfuffle started the day Stinkbomb’s twenty dollar bill went missing. Stinkbomb and his little sister Ketchup-Face know exactly who took it: the badgers. After all, they’re called badgersbecause they do bad things; otherwise they’d just be gers. b) to remove the brakes from my imagination; to switch off the internal censors that tell me, but that ’s impossible, or, that doesn ’t make sense, or, you can ’t do that.