Game of Pets Book 1: The Boy Who Knew Too Much

by Aaron Blabey

Mega-bestselling author Aaron Blabey, creator of The Bad Guys, is back!

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Thanks to a diabolical intergalactic game show, we are all cooked.

Luckily, Griff, an 11-year-old kid with innumerable allergies, just got told by a talking axolotl named Bob that Griff is the only one who can save us.

I mean, that’s kind of good news, right?

Trouble is, Bob’s prophecy comes with a “Watch your back, man…your PETS are not what they seem…”

Prepare to have your mind blown and your cats and dogs under heavy suspicion. It’s time to buckle up for an insane, laugh-out-loud new series, 260 million years in the making…

208 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication September 29, 2026

About the author

Aaron is an Australian author of children's books and artist who until the mid-2000s was also an actor. His award winning picture books include Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley, The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon and the best-selling Pig the Pug.

In the field of acting, he is probably best known for his lead roles in two television dramedies, 1994's The Damnation of Harvey McHugh, for which he won an Australian Film Institute Award, and 2003's CrashBurn, before retiring from performance in 2005.

Reviews

[Brenda · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book seems like a cross between "The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter" and "Dungeon Crawler Carl". It was funny and I am looking forward to the next book to see how things go.