Kids' Night In: A Midnight Feast

Description

An exciting new anthology following in the footsteps of the best-selling Girl's Night In books. Over thirty of your favourite children's writers and some very famous people from Australia and overseas have contributed never-before-seen stories, poems and illustrations for Kids' Night In. With so many stories to choose from there's something in here for every child, whatever their tastes. By turns wicked, quirky and inspiring, these sometimes hilarious, frequently touching tales are a sure-fire hit for kids who love to read and those who aren't so keen. Bedtime stories, rainy day stories, holiday reads - or as a gift for any occasion, there's no collection like it.

Nick Earls is the author of novels including The Fix, Zigzag Street, Bachelor Kisses, The True Story of Butterfish and Perfect Skin and the collection of short stories Welcome to Normal. His work has been published internationally in English and in translation. Zigzag Street won a Betty Trask Award in the UK in 1998, and Perfect Skin was the only novel nominated for an Australian Comedy Award in 2003. 48 Shades of Brown was awarded Book of the Year (older readers) by the Children's Book Council of Australia in 2000, and in the US it was a Kirkus Reviews selection in its books of the year for 2004. 48 Shades of Brown and Perfect Skin have been adapted into feature films, with Solo un Padre, the film adapted from the Italian edition of Perfect Skin, a top-ten box office hit in Italy in 2008. After January, 48 Shades of Brown, Zigzag Street and Perfect Skin have all been successfully adapted for theatre, and the Zigzag Street play toured nationally in 2005. The True Story of Butterfish was also performed as a play. He recently published a collection of stories Welcome to Normal and a novel Analogue Men.