Glassful of Giggles

by Elaine Forrestal

An outbreak of infectious giggles that close a school for the day, a magic Christmas pudding that takes over a house, an apple-green pig that starts gobbling up little boys - these are just some of the strange and bizarre things that happen in this wonderfully funny collection of new stories from Elaine Forrestal, one of Australia's best-known writers for children.

72 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2002

About the author

Elaine Forrestal is a full-time writer who lives and works in Scarborough, Western Australia. She grew up in the Wheatbelt but now travels all over the world, and has spoken at festivals and presented writing workshops in Australia, Singapore, France, Italy, and Ireland. Elaine has had novels, picture books, magazine articles and short stories published in Australia, the USA and the UK. Her novel, Someone Like Me, which won the CBCA Book of the Year Award, the WAYRBA Hoffman Award and was commended for the NASAN Book and Software Awards in the UK, has been translated into Slovenian and Italian. She has also written for children’s television. Of her 17 published fiction titles, 14 have been shortlisted for, or won, major awards.