Just Kidding

Get ready for a hilarious ride with the world’s most annoying practical joker! Just Kidding! is the first book in a side-splitting series of short stories from the creators of the bestselling Treehouse series, Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton.

Are you the ultimate practical joker? Take the JUST KIDDING TEST and find out!

1. Do you ever pretend to be sick to get out of going to school?

2. Do you leave banana skins in the middle of busy footpaths?

3. Do you wish that every day could be April Fools’ Day?

SCORE: One point for each yes answer.

3. You are a practical joking genius. You will love this book.

1-2. You are a good practical joker. You will love this book.

0. You are not a practical joker. You will love this book.

Packed with laugh-out-loud adventures, silly pranks, and cartoon-style illustrations, this middle-grade illustrated fiction is perfect for reluctant readers aged 7 and up. Get ready for a joke-filled, action-packed adventure that will have you in stitches from start to finish!

(Just Kidding! was originally published as Just Tricking!)

Author Biography

Andy Griffiths is an internationally successful, award-winning children’s author. His books have been bestsellers in his homeland Australia, the USA and the UK. He is the co-creator of the bestselling, award-winning Treehouse series with illustrator Terry Denton, which has been published in over thirty countries. Andy thrives on having an audience: he has worked as a high school teacher; been the lead singer in a rock band and a stand-up comedian. He has two daughters and lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Terry Denton is a bestselling and award-winning writer and illustrator based in Melbourne, where he lives by the beach with his wife and three kids. He has won more than fifteen children’s choice awards throughout Australia and is the co-creator of the bestselling Treehouse series with author Andy Griffiths. As well as being an illustrator, Terry is a fine artist and has held several exhibitions around inner Melbourne.

The first book in their Treehouse series, 13-Storey Treehouse, won the Sainsburys Children’s Book Award in 2015, the Lancashire Fantastic Book Award in 2016, as well as the 2016 Coventry Inspiration Award, and the fourth Treehouse book, The 52-Storey Treehouse, won the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year prize – the first children’s book to ever do so.