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Thai-Riffic!

Thai-Riffic!

by Oliver Phommavanh
Paperback
Publication Date: 02/04/2019

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It's hard being Thai, especially when you live in Australia, your house is a Thai cultural shrine, your parents run a restaurant called Thai-Riffic! and you're desperate for some pizza! Lengy's adventures will have you laughing out loud and perhaps shedding the occasional wimpy tear.

Albert (Lengy) Lengviriyakul, is fed up with being Thai. His parents own a Thai restaurant with the cheesy name of Thai-riffic! and Lengy is sick of being his father's curry guinea pig, longing to just eat pizza! At school he is a bit of a troublemaker, going to any lengths to hide his background. But when his best friend decides to become Thai for a day for a school project, Lengy stubbornly comes to the realisation that there may just be some pretty cool things about his culture.

ISBN:
9781760890568
9781760890568
Category:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02-04-2019
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
208
Dimensions (mm):
197x129x16mm
Weight:
0.15kg

"I really loved Thai-riffic!, it's funny and moving, and I can't wait for the sequel Thai-Me-Kangaroo-Down-Sport!"
Wil Anderson

"A very funny, very fun book for 8-12s."
Magpies Magazine

"His ability to write side-splitting humour and to connect with children shines through in this, his first, novel."
Sun Herald

Oliver Phommavanh

Oliver is a young Thai-Australian writer for children. He has featured on panels at the Sydney Writers' Festival among many other appearances at festival and writing event as well as in blogs.

He has worked as a primary school teacher and now spends his time writing and sharing his writing passion with kids and engaging them with humour.

He's also a stand-up comedian and has appeared on national TV and radio as well as a number of well-known comedy venues such as the Comedy Store in Sydney.

His first book, Thai-riffic!, was published in June 2010 to critical acclaim, followed by Con-nerd in 2011, Punchlines and Thai-no-mite in 2012, Ethan in the Stuff Happens series in 2015, and The Other Christy in 2016.

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