Katie Kirby Books

Lottie Brooks is BACK for more extremely embarrassing adventures as she goes on holiday and gets her very first boyfriend! Daniel and Lottie finally have their first date. A trip to a fancy gelato in Brighton. But how do you eat ice-cream in front of your crush and is Lottie ready for her first kiss? I mean he's nice and all but boys are still a bit gross, right? The school holidays are looming, and with Lottie off camping to France for two weeks and Daniel spending most of the summer on a fancy Greek island it looks as if the young lovebirds will be cruelly ripped apart. But then Lottie makes friends with a French boy called Antoine - the language is an obvious barrier but does it matter when he's THAT good looking? Readers LOVE Lottie Brooks: My daughter couldn't put it down and read it in 2 days. Read at breakfast, walking downstairs, tea time, in the bath. My 9-year-old daughter devoured it in two nights, and all I could hear from her was giggling and the occasional Mum! Listen to this! This is SO me! . My 12 year old reluctant reader took this book, read 100 pages in one night and proclaimed it 'the best book ever' Katie has managed to capture the essence of what this group think and feel in a positive, life-affirming fashion.

"The first book in the hilarious new series for children by the bestselling creator of Hurrah For Gin. Lottie Brooks is 11 3/4 and her life is already officially over - not only is she about to start high school without any friends or glamorous swooshy hair, she's just discovered she's too flat-chested to wear A BRA! She might as well give up now and go into hibernation with her hamsters Sir Barnaby Squeakington and Fuzzball the Third. Lottie navigates the many perils of growing up in this fantastically funny new illustrated series for a 9-12 audience, filled with friendship, embarrassing moments and plenty of lols. Louise Rennison for the Diary of a Wimpy Kid generation - hilarious, relatable and full of heart"--Publisher's description.

This book is not a how-to-guide. It won't tell you how to get your baby to sleep, how to deal with toddler tantrums, how to be a good parent, a cool parent or even a renegade parent. It is a book about parenting that contains absolutely no useful advice whatsoever. Instead it shares beautifully honest anecdotes and illustrations from the parenting frontline that demonstrate it is perfectly possible to love your children with the whole of your heart whilst finding them incredibly irritating at the same time. From pregnancy to starting school, Hurrah For Gin takes you through the exciting, frustrating, infuriating and wonderful whirlwind of parenthood, offering solidarity and a friendly hug after a tough day. Best served with gin.

Perpetually overwhelmed? Welcome to the new book from Katie Kirby, creator of the bestselling Hurrah for Gin Do you overthink everything? Do you struggle to say no to people? Are you paying membership for a gym you never go to? Do group chat politics make you want to throw your phone under a bus? Are you overjoyed when people cancel plans so that you can sit at home in your pyjama bottoms eating Coco pops for dinner? If so then this book is for you! We spend our childhoods wanting to a be adults and, when we get there, find ourselves lost under a pile of life admin, half completed to do lists and anti-ageing face creams that promise to make you look as good as Natalie Imbruglia. In her new book, Hurrah for Gin pinpoints with painful precision just how overwhelming life can be when you're all grown up. From the worry spiral that keeps you up at 3AM, to maintaining a professional aura when you can't stand other people - this is for everyone struggling to stay afloat. Honest, relatable, funny and containing no useful advice whatsoever, take comfort in the knowledge that it's not just you, we're all as f*cked as each other.

After a summer of meeting handsome French boys and getting a tiny bit sunburnt. OK, fine - a lot sunburnt, Lottie's heading off on a week-long residential school trip. A whole week away from embarrassing parents and Toby's tasty air biscuits! But the trip soon turns into a total disaster. The other girls staying at the camp are MEGA-MEAN, best friend Jess is spending all her time with new girl Isha, and Lottie's diary gets stolen! Who knew a school trip could cause so much DRAMA?!

Life is hard for Archie. It often seems like the world is out to get him. People are always telling him what to do ... 'Eat your tea Archie!', 'Don't lick the bus stop Archie!', 'Stop putting Mummy's phone in the bin Archie!' And then one day his heart is shattered when he learns his parents are to replace him with a younger sibling - the utter bastards! The only comforts he finds are in his best friend Amelie who teaches him all the good swear words, and the sweet relief he gets from sinking his teeth into other people's limbs. From naked protests to dealing with other people looking at YOUR THINGS! This is a no-holds-barred account of life told through the eyes of Archie - a creatively stifled, modern day toddler. Sunday Times bestseller Hurrah for Gin has delighted fans with its honest, emotional and laugh-out-loud account of parenting. Brilliantly illustrated with Katie Kirby's unique stick man drawings and told in the same outrageously funny way, The Daily Struggles of Archie Adams, Aged 2 1/4 once again takes on the highs and lows of family life, this time it's one opinionated boy having his say

Dieses Buch ist all den Mamas und Papas gewidmet, die nicht perfekt sind. Die zu oft brüllen, denen vor Kinderpartys graut und die abends eine Tiefkühlpizza auf den Tisch stellen statt einer Schüssel voller Brokkoli. Die gerne mal ein Gläschen trinken, um in dem ganzen Chaos rund ums Kind nicht durchzudrehen. Praktisch gesehen ist dieses Buch eine Niete. Es wird Ihnen nicht verraten, mit welcher Methode Sie Ihr Kind am schnellsten in den Schlaf wiegen oder wie Sie souverän mit Wutanfällen umgehen. Stattdessen werden Sie darin absolut ehrliche und hinreißend komische Geschichten und Zeichnungen einer Mama finden, die eines deutlich machen: Humor hilft. Ein Glas Wein auch. Es ist total normal, dass Sie Ihre Kinder von Herzen lieben – und sie im nächsten Moment in den Kühlschrank sperren möchten. Sie sind nicht allein, entspannen Sie sich. Es wird alles gut. Prost, Baby! Ausstattung: mit Abbildungen

Lotties Welt steht wieder einmal kopf: Zu Hause tyrannisiert ihre Mini-Schwester die ganze Familie, und in der Schule ist bei Lottie immer ROTE-BETE-ALARM, wenn sie Daniel über den Weg läuft. Außerdem steht das SCHULMUSICAL an, und eine Rolle darin wäre ihr absoluter Traum. Zum Glück hat sie Jess und Molly, die ihr in dem ganzen Gefühlschaos zur Seite stehen. Doch dann schaltet sich Klassenziege Amber ein, und das Freundschaftskleeblatt droht auseinanderzubrechen. Sind aller guten Dinge vielleicht doch nicht drei?

Pokračovanie najvtipnejšieho tínedžerského denníka!Ó nie, mám vyrážku. A pokrstila som ju menom Barbara…Lottie má už všetkého plné zuby! Napriek tomu je odhodlaná zdolať každý problém. Nesnaží sa viac zapôsobiť na Amber a nikto ju nevolá Uhorka. Lottie sa v škole zúčastní divadelného predstavenia, na ktorom má konečne možnosť oslniť očarujúceho Daniela spevom v kostýme kraba. Trampoty s chalanmi nemajú konca a navyše si s kamoškami Molly a Jess skáču do vlasov.