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Lunch: Gets Silly: Gets Silly
Paperback
Series: Gets Silly, Book 2
AnimalsGeneral Juvenile Fiction
Publisher Price: $7.99
ISBN13: 9781764679657
Publisher: Screeching Cocky Pty Ltd
Published: Jun 4 2026
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lunch Gets Silly is a whimsical Australian picture book that blends rhyme, counting, imagination and absurd humour into a playful lunchtime adventure. The story follows two sisters whose simple meal of cold meat and tasty pickles on the thickest slabs of bread quickly spirals into an increasingly imaginative journey involving a frog named Red, hopping billabong adventures, arts-loving crickets, bead-making wombats, royal banquets, surfing cassowaries, swooping sugar gliders and koalas feasting high in the trees.
Told through rhythmic couplets and richly illustrated painterly scenes, the book captures the dreamlike logic of childhood imagination, where one playful thought naturally tumbles into the next. Along the way, readers encounter a parade of iconic Australian animals woven into the story both as characters and as counting elements on each page. The counting mechanic encourages early numeracy and pattern recognition while remaining fully integrated into the visual storytelling. The artwork combines warm interiors, sunlit bush landscapes, muddy riverbanks, sparkling coastlines and textured Australian wilderness settings with expressive animal characters and surreal visual comedy. Recurring motifs - especially the sisters' striped socks, adventurous energy and wildly imaginative encounters - give the book a strong visual identity.
In the tradition of Edward Lear or Dr Seuss, but transplanted firmly into an Australian imaginative landscape, Lunch Gets Silly celebrates creativity, curiosity and the wonderfully unpredictable way children think. Funny, affectionate and distinctly Australian, it is designed to be enjoyed both as a read-aloud experience and as a visual exploration children can revisit again and again.
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