The worst class in the world gets worse - Joanna Nadin

'HILARIOUS! Proper laughs!' Pamela Butchart'Deliciously silly, with hilarious catchphrases, Joanna Nadin's The Worst Class in the World, illustrated with grubby glee by Rikin Parekh, is a great cheer-up book.' GuardianA brand new, laugh-out-loud young fiction series from bestselling author Joanna Nadin. Perfect for fans of Horrid Henry and the Trouble with Daisy series.According to head teacher Mrs Bottomley-Blunt, 4B is the WORST CLASS IN THE WORLD. She says school is not about footling or fiddle-faddling or FUN. It is about LEARNING and it is high time 4B tried harder to EXCEL at it.But Stanley and Manjit didn't LITERALLY mean to flood the toilets when they should have been monitoring the playground. And they definitely didn't LITERALLY mean to bring a penguin home from the zoo on their school trip. These things just happened even though they had a FOOLPROOF plan to get away with them.

Joanna Nadin is the author of more than 80 books for children and adults, including the award-winning Penny Dreadful series, the Flying Fergus series with Sir Chris Hoy, and Carnegie-nominated middle grade novel Joe All Alone, which is now a BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated BBC TV series. She's been a Richard and Judy Book Club choice, Radio 4 Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book of the Month, and shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, the Best Book Award and Queen of Teen among many others. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. She also lectures on Creative Writing and Publishing on the acclaimed MA in Writing for Children at Bath Spa University.

Deliciously silly, with hilarious catchphrases, Joanna Nadin's The Worst Class in the World, illustrated with grubby glee by Rikin Parekh, is a great cheer-up book. According to headteacher Mrs Bottomley-Blunt, 4B are the rottenest of eggs - when will they win a prize like 4A? But somehow the shambolic crew always muddle through, even though Mr Nidgett keeps threatening to leave teaching and become a lion-tamer.
Guardian Book of the Month

'HILARIOUS! Proper laughs!'
Pamela Butchart