Cornelius wanted a Christmas he’d never forget—well, mission accomplished.
His brilliant plans to be helpful quickly snowball into festive fails as every “good deed” somehow makes things catastrophically worse.
With his faithful but cowardly hound, Jabba the Mutt, Cornelius blunders from pet sitting “adventures” and soggy cat disasters to one family meltdown after another. Trouble follows him like a goose with a grudge.
But even Cornelius isn’t ready for the ultimate holiday mix up: a midwife, a patch of ice, and a curse that strikes again, leaving him trapped in someone else’s body at the worst possible moment.
Packed with disasters, dilemmas, and more “what the duck?!” moments than you can count, this Christmas comedy will have middle grade readers cackling—and adults secretly reading ahead.
Disability Own Voices
Middle Grade, Funny Christmas Story, Middle Grade Humour, Gross Out Humour, Reluctant Readers, Family Tensions, Body Swap, Body Switch, ADHD
About The Author
Roly Nutkins writes funny, fast-moving middle-grade adventures for readers aged 8–12. His Baybridge Body Switchers series follows Cornelius, the world’s most disaster-prone kid, who, after being cursed, keeps swapping bodies with animals and people at the worst possible times.
Expect chaotic animal encounters, embarrassing disasters, wild body swaps, suspicious relatives, and plenty of bad decisions that somehow get even worse. The Cornelius books can be read in any order.
Roly is the pen name for Paul Mahoney, who lives in Brisbane, Australia, where he spends far too much time dreaming up ridiculous situations for Cornelius to survive. A free ebook of Cornelius & the Laughing Lyrebird is available to readers who sign up for his newsletter via his website.
Cornelius has ADHD, like the author. His sometimes sidetracked thinking is part of his character; the body-swapping curse and family chaos are entirely fictional.
