{"id":61875,"date":"2016-07-26T21:43:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T10:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=61875"},"modified":"2016-07-28T17:03:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T06:03:58","slug":"australian-actress-comedian-isla-fisher-pens-first-childrens-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2016\/07\/26\/australian-actress-comedian-isla-fisher-pens-first-childrens-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian actress and comedian, Isla Fisher, pens first children&#8217;s book."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/marge-in-charge-order-your-signed-copy--isla-fisher\/prod9781848125339.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-61880\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Marge-in-Charge-Newsletter-Banner1.jpg\" alt=\"Marge in Charge Newsletter Banner(1)\" width=\"628\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Isla Fisher&#8217;s come along way since her Summer Bay days. Starting out on <em>Home and Away<\/em>, she&#8217;s since starred in a host of Hollywood blockbusters and shared the limelight with the biggest stars on the planet. She&#8217;s married to funny-man Sacha Baron Cohen and had three children. Oh, and you may have seen her on all those ING commercials &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-61904 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ing.jpg\" alt=\"ing\" width=\"584\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now she adds children&#8217;s book writer to her impressive list of achievements, with her first book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/marge-in-charge-order-your-signed-copy--isla-fisher\/prod9781848125339.html\" target=\"_blank\">Marge in Charge<\/a><\/em>, available to pre-order.<\/p>\n<p>Marge is not your average babysitter. She may look very sensible and VERY small, but once Jemima and Jake&#8217;s parents leave home, Marge becomes mischievous. She takes off her hat to reveal a mane of rainbow-coloured hair, she feeds Jemima and Jake chocolate soup, races snails, and mixes potions in the bath!\u00a0But if Jake and Jemima want her to babysit again, it&#8217;s time for them to take charge of Marge, tidy up and settle her down for a little sleep. As we said, Marge isn&#8217;t your average babysitter.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-61875 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-26-at-7.12.12-pm.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-61900\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-61900'>\n\t\t\t\tIsla&#8217;s niece reading Marge in Charge\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-26-at-7.08.32-pm.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-61899\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-61899'>\n\t\t\t\tMarge in Charge\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>This is a hilarious, charming and anarchic first book from an Aussie actress and comedian who revealed on <em>The Project<\/em> today that writing was in fact her back-up career. She&#8217;s always been a storyteller and a believer in the importance of storytime in connecting families. So it was only natural that she would eventually pen her own books. Hence <em>Marge in Charge.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Isla also revealed on <em>The Project<\/em> that she in fact lives vicariously through her character, Marge. In the Cohen household she has to be responsible and sensible; in the book she becomes every child&#8217;s dream.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-61885 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Isla-with-JOhn.jpg\" alt=\"Isla with JOhn\" width=\"714\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On a recent trip to London, Booktopia&#8217;s very own John Purcell, Head of Marketing and Chief Buyer, met the self-proclaimed small ginger ninja. See picture above (John Purcell: Right)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/marge-in-charge-order-your-signed-copy--isla-fisher\/prod9781848125339.html\" target=\"_blank\">Grab your signed copy of <em>Marge in Charge<\/em>. Available while stocks last.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Isla Fisher introduces Marge In Charge\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gBwRudaad9A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isla Fisher&#8217;s come along way since her Summer Bay days. Starting out on Home and Away, she&#8217;s since starred in a host of Hollywood blockbusters and shared the limelight with the biggest stars on the planet. She&#8217;s married to funny-man Sacha Baron Cohen and had three children. Oh, and you may have seen her on all those ING commercials &#8230; Now she adds children&#8217;s book writer to her impressive list of achievements, with her first book,\u00a0Marge in Charge, available to pre-order. Marge is not your average babysitter. She may look very sensible and VERY small, but once Jemima and Jake&#8217;s parents leave home, Marge becomes mischievous. She takes off her hat to reveal a mane of rainbow-coloured hair, she feeds Jemima and Jake chocolate soup, races snails, and mixes potions in the bath!\u00a0But if Jake and Jemima want her to babysit again, it&#8217;s time for them to take charge of Marge, tidy up and settle her down for a little sleep. As we said, Marge isn&#8217;t your average babysitter. This is a hilarious, charming and anarchic first book from an Aussie actress and comedian who revealed on The Project today that writing was in fact her back-up career. 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