The Birthday Wars

Set the dial to catastrophe! Alice Toolie and her worst enemy Jimmy Cook have a huge problem. Their birthday parties are on the same day and they have both invited the whole class. Disaster!
And neither is backing down.

There's only one solution. A cake-off. Whoever wins gets to party. Literally.

As Alice and Jimmy discover there are no real winners in wars. Before long, it's ferocious Woodland Princesses vs frozen Antarctic Explorers in this hilarious book from the CBCA award-winning writers of the Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers series about worst enemies and even worse-r friends.

About the Authors

Kate and Jol write funny books for kids and are the award-winning authors of Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers the Third Grade - a series about a boy set on being a famous explorer - one disaster at a time. It was selected as Honour Book for 2017 Children's Book Council of Australia and shortlisted for Best Designed Book of the Year.

Their picture books include Are You My Bottom?, Room on Our Rock, Mike I Don't Like, Parrot Carrot and I Got This Hat - which was National Simultaneous Storytime Book and read by over half a million kids on the same day.

Kate, Jol and Grace's previous collaboration, Yours Troolie, Alice Toolie, was shortlisted for the 2019 Australian Book Design Awards for Best Designed Children's Fiction.

About the Illustrator

Grace West is a young illustrator and graphic designer working under the nom de plume North South Grace West. She is passionate about illustration, books, typography and print design.