Withering Tights Louise Rennison Lovereading - Teenage Reading More books from this list Book 26 of 26. View the next book in this list View the next book in this list This title is in stock Price £5.24 RRP £6.99  Saving £1.75 (%25)   Download Extract    Buy This Book

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A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection.

 Laugh out loud at this launch title of a brilliant new series by Queen of Teen author Louise Rennison. Tallulah Casey, cousin of the irrepressible Georgia Nicholson, signs up for an amazing residential summer school of performing arts in the depths of Yorkshire. How Tallulah acclimatises herself to Yorkshire, the arty world of Dother Hall and, above all, being in a world with boys is wickedly entertaining.

Winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2010 (Funniest Book for Children aged Seven to Fourteen).

Reviews

Praise for 'Are these my basoomas I see before me?':

'Either these books make you chortle like a loon in loon pants or you live on another planet' - Nicolette Jones, Sunday Times

'Raucously fun' - Amanda Craig, The Times

Praise for ..startled by his furry shorts!: 'It's an excellent book and I'm dying to know what happens next' - Sugar

Praise for 'then he ate my boy entrancers': You'll be falling about laughing at this' -
Mizz

'The only snag about taking this on holiday is that it won't last long: it will be consumed without a break except for the snorting noises. But it can always be passed on to parents by any youngster who can stand the sound of Vati's and Mutti's snorts, or dipped into repeatedly because every line is vair vair funny.'
- Sunday Times

Praise for 'and that's when it fell off in my hand.': 'Readers will find themselves laughing uncontrollably until their sides hurt, and won't be able to put the book down.' - Sunday Times

'Hilarious! [Louise Rennison] is queen of the pink-book pack.' - The Times

Praise for 'Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging': 'Bridget Jones for teenagers -- but funnier. Expect Potter-esque queues for the sequel.' - Sunday Telegraph

'Open a bag of Midget Gems and enjoy this vair marvy read' - The Mail

About The Author

Louise Rennison lives in Brighton, a place that she likes to think of as the San Francisco of the South Coast. Which is sad as it is nothing like San Francisco, being mainly pebbles and large people in tiny swimming knickers who have gone bright red in the sun. Although she lives in Brighton in reality, in her mind she lives somewhere exotic with a manservant called Juan.

When Louise was 15, her parents decided to emigrate to Wairakei in New Zealand. Its main claim to fame is that it had some of the most violent geothermal activity in the world. "When we had Sunday lunch in the back garden, the tables heaved and lurched around, and the trees went backwards and forwards. That was because underneath the table, underneath the earth's surface, thousands of cubic feet of molten steam was trying to get out … and kill us!" Louise's dad had his shoes blown off by a rogue bore.

Louise's research for her books requires many hours hanging around with 14-year-olds which is, as she says, "Brilliant - the best fun known to humanity. It's all boys, make-up, laughing and, er, that's it.”