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Deadly! #1
Nude
Jennings and Gleitzman have reunited to bring young readers another tantalising 6 part serial adventure. The series introduces new characters, Amy and Sprocket. The location is a weird nudist colony. What are the scientific experiments that are keeping the colonists alive?
- GenresChildrens
72 pages, Paperback
First published July 27, 2000
About the author
Morris Gleitzman
123 books993 followersMorris began his writing career as a screenwriter, and wrote his first children's novel in 1985. His brilliantly comic style has endeared him to children and adults alike, and he is now one of Australia's most successful authors, both internationally and at home. He was born in England in 1953 and emigrated to Australia in 1969 so he could escape from school and become a Very Famous Writer.
Before realising that dream, he had a colourful career as paperboy, bottle-shop shelf-stacker, department store Santa Claus, frozen chicken defroster, fashion-design assistant and sugar-mill employee. In between he managed to gain a degree in Professional Writing at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. Later he became sole writer for three award-winning and top-rating seasons with the TV comedy series The Norman Gunston Show.
Morris wrote a number of feature film and telemovie screenplays, including The Other Facts of Life and Second Childhood, both produced by The Australian Children's Television Foundation. The Other Facts of Life won an AWGIE Award for the Best Original Children's Film Script.
He also wrote live stage material for people such as Rolf Harris, Pamela Stephenson and the Governor General of Australia. Morris is well known to many people through his semi-autobiographical columns in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald magazine, Good Weekend, which he wrote for nine years.
But the majority of Morris' accolades are for his hugely popular children's books. One of his most successful books for young people is Two Weeks with the Queen, an international bestseller which was also adapted into a play by Mary Morris. The play had many successful seasons in Australia and was then produced at the National Theatre in London in 1995 directed by Alan Ayckbourn, and also in South Africa, Canada, Japan and the USA.
All his other books have been shortlisted for or have won numerous children's book prizes. These include The Other Facts of Life, Second Childhood, Misery Guts, Worry Warts, Puppy Fat, Blabber Mouth, Sticky Beak, Belly Flop, Water Wings, Bumface, Gift Of The Gab, Toad Rage, Wicked! and Deadly!, two six-part novels written in collaboration with Paul Jennings, Adults Only, Toad Heaven, Boy Overboard, Teacher's Pet, Toad Away, Girl Underground, Worm Story, Once, Aristotle's Nostril, Doubting Thomas, Give Peas A Chance, Then, Toad Surprise, Grace, Now, Too Small To Fail, and his latest book, Pizza Cake. Morris' children's books have been published in the UK, the USA, Germany, Italy, Japan, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Indonesia and Czechoslovakia, Russia and China.
Before realising that dream, he had a colourful career as paperboy, bottle-shop shelf-stacker, department store Santa Claus, frozen chicken defroster, fashion-design assistant and sugar-mill employee. In between he managed to gain a degree in Professional Writing at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. Later he became sole writer for three award-winning and top-rating seasons with the TV comedy series The Norman Gunston Show.
Morris wrote a number of feature film and telemovie screenplays, including The Other Facts of Life and Second Childhood, both produced by The Australian Children's Television Foundation. The Other Facts of Life won an AWGIE Award for the Best Original Children's Film Script.
He also wrote live stage material for people such as Rolf Harris, Pamela Stephenson and the Governor General of Australia. Morris is well known to many people through his semi-autobiographical columns in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald magazine, Good Weekend, which he wrote for nine years.
But the majority of Morris' accolades are for his hugely popular children's books. One of his most successful books for young people is Two Weeks with the Queen, an international bestseller which was also adapted into a play by Mary Morris. The play had many successful seasons in Australia and was then produced at the National Theatre in London in 1995 directed by Alan Ayckbourn, and also in South Africa, Canada, Japan and the USA.
All his other books have been shortlisted for or have won numerous children's book prizes. These include The Other Facts of Life, Second Childhood, Misery Guts, Worry Warts, Puppy Fat, Blabber Mouth, Sticky Beak, Belly Flop, Water Wings, Bumface, Gift Of The Gab, Toad Rage, Wicked! and Deadly!, two six-part novels written in collaboration with Paul Jennings, Adults Only, Toad Heaven, Boy Overboard, Teacher's Pet, Toad Away, Girl Underground, Worm Story, Once, Aristotle's Nostril, Doubting Thomas, Give Peas A Chance, Then, Toad Surprise, Grace, Now, Too Small To Fail, and his latest book, Pizza Cake. Morris' children's books have been published in the UK, the USA, Germany, Italy, Japan, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Indonesia and Czechoslovakia, Russia and China.
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April 18, 2018
Nude is the first small book/part in the Deadly series, written by the two worshipped leaders of middle-grade literature, Morris Gleitzman and Paul Jennings. And 'Oh boy', this book a treat, both to my imagination and my overall well-being. Humorous, crazy, imaginative, other worldly. What I love above all about this book is the inspiring, realistic characters who are trying to come to terms with situations in abnormal scenarios.
Enter one naked teenager boy, scared and alone in the bush with no memory. Oh did I mention he was naked? Enter little kids who are immensely interested in capturing this boy for his poop and drive big military trucks, with weapons and all.
It's just anouther day in the life of my seriously concerning brain, but... somehow it's actually written down on paper? These two authours are proof of how crazy people can actually publish books, accomplish the impossible and create stories that no one else could ever write.
Of course, I am re-reading these little beauties, I think this might be the first time I have re-read them in at least 4 years and I can instantly remember my forgotten love for the plot and story.
I am going to review the other 5 parts so this is just going to be a little review, but I am immensely enjoying this fantastic and wild story so far.
Enter one naked teenager boy, scared and alone in the bush with no memory. Oh did I mention he was naked? Enter little kids who are immensely interested in capturing this boy for his poop and drive big military trucks, with weapons and all.
It's just anouther day in the life of my seriously concerning brain, but... somehow it's actually written down on paper? These two authours are proof of how crazy people can actually publish books, accomplish the impossible and create stories that no one else could ever write.
Of course, I am re-reading these little beauties, I think this might be the first time I have re-read them in at least 4 years and I can instantly remember my forgotten love for the plot and story.
I am going to review the other 5 parts so this is just going to be a little review, but I am immensely enjoying this fantastic and wild story so far.
January 28, 2009
The book Deadly is about is about a boy named Sprocket who woke up in the forest but he did not know who he was. Sprocket its visited by 6 little kids that captured him and wanted his poop. Amy another main character struggles because she thinks her dad is having an affair with another women. Amy's half baby sister gets kidnapped and brought to the forest.
During reading this book, I made a text-to-world connection. Anyone out in the world can have lost their memory just woken up at their house or somewhere and not know who they were. I made this connection because people may be struggling to not remember who they were and have no one to tell them. But i predict that he will go threw this and that Sprocket will find out something about his past.
I gave this book 4 stars. Towards the end i really enjoyed the book. But the beginning was boring. It was hard for me to understand because Amy and sprocket were in two different places i didn't know what was going on.
Book 2
Amy and Sprocket have met in the forest. Sprockets stomach was still swollen badly. Amy and Sprocket went to the nudest camp to get back Amy's half baby sister back. But they find out many secrets about the 6 little kids and the crazy nudest.
I made a test-to-world connection. Many people are greedy in the world they only care about themselves. So they risk everybody's lives to satisfy themselves or get something they want. So i guess some people are like that in the world and some or not they are like the 6 little brats and the crazy nudest.
I gave this book 4 stars. This book was better then the one before. I felt into the book but not throughout the whole story it didn't make me want to read more and more. It was good but it wasn't that interesting there were some boring parts.
During reading this book, I made a text-to-world connection. Anyone out in the world can have lost their memory just woken up at their house or somewhere and not know who they were. I made this connection because people may be struggling to not remember who they were and have no one to tell them. But i predict that he will go threw this and that Sprocket will find out something about his past.
I gave this book 4 stars. Towards the end i really enjoyed the book. But the beginning was boring. It was hard for me to understand because Amy and sprocket were in two different places i didn't know what was going on.
Book 2
Amy and Sprocket have met in the forest. Sprockets stomach was still swollen badly. Amy and Sprocket went to the nudest camp to get back Amy's half baby sister back. But they find out many secrets about the 6 little kids and the crazy nudest.
I made a test-to-world connection. Many people are greedy in the world they only care about themselves. So they risk everybody's lives to satisfy themselves or get something they want. So i guess some people are like that in the world and some or not they are like the 6 little brats and the crazy nudest.
I gave this book 4 stars. This book was better then the one before. I felt into the book but not throughout the whole story it didn't make me want to read more and more. It was good but it wasn't that interesting there were some boring parts.
December 2, 2024
Very different to the show I watched and loved as a kid, but still interesting and like no other story I’ve ever read. Might not decide to read the remaining five books, but this was still enjoyable. Paul Jennings is one of a kind fr 💁🏾♀️🙇🏽♀️
June 18, 2012
What the heck is this? And who is it aimed at? Usually books this short are aimed at 6-7 year olds. And yet this talks about parents having affairs. What the? And there's a bunch of other weird stuff. For teenagers maybe? But they'll find it too obvious in terms of figuring out what's going on. Why do Australian authors have to be so dumb and crass?
May 16, 2014
Was basically in sections of two stories about one kids and then another kid but i. The end a girl saw a pregnant woman poking around in poo but it was actually a boy that had been in the nude and got the clothes off a clothesline
July 22, 2008
the 6 part book is really good and interistring! :D
January 9, 2009
This book is not that good at all
January 17, 2010
it ok not all great it does get a little out of hand and a bit stupid towords the end but other then that they are ok they are the first book saga i read.
February 19, 2010
I loved Deadly so much more than Wicked,. So freaky and surreal. It was amazing. I stayed up all night one night to read the whole thing when I was younger. Phenomenal.
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