Comic Stories

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In the shower with Andy /Andy Griffiths -- Woof! (extract) /Allan Ahlberg -- Who needs and Aries ape? /Walter Dean Myers -- The Snooks family /Harcourt Williams -- Double fudge (extract) /Judy Blume -- Wunderpants /Paul Jennings -- A work of art /Margaret Mahy -- Harry the street pigeon /M.L. Greenall -- William's New Year's Day /Richmal Compton -- The day of judgement /Richard Peck -- The yellow ribbon /Maria Leach, adpt by Virginia Tashjian -- The ship of fools /Terry Jones -- Spellshocked /Finbar O'Connor -- The adventures of Tom Sawyer (extract) /Mark Twain -- The great golden belly-button /Michael Rosen -- The ratcatcher /Errol Lloyd -- At the zoo /Brian Patten -- Julius Caesar's goat (extract) /Dick King-Smith -- Viking treasure /Roger McGough -- Break a leg /Joel Schwartz -- Uncle Trevor's magic flying slippers /Ian McMillan -- Blabber mouth (extract) /Morris Gleitzman -- How Tom beat Captain Najork and his hired sportsmen /Russell Hoban -- [The hitchiker ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504711W) /Roald Dahl -- Spider George /Alex Shearer

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Judy Blume

12 February 1938

Judy Blume (born Judith Sussman) is an American author. She has written many novels for children and young adults which have exceeded sales of 80 million and been translated into 31 languages. Blume's novels for teenagers were among the first to tackle such controversial matters as racism (*Iggie's House*), menstruation (*Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.*), divorce (*It's Not the End of the World, Just As Long As We're Together*), bullying (*Blubber*), masturbation (*Deenie; Then Again, Maybe I Won't*) and teen sex (*Forever*), and as such have been the source of controversy over the appropriateness of such topics for her middle school audience. She is married with two children and a st…