Cornelius just wanted to earn some quick cash. How hard could it be to chicken sit his aunt’s constipated hen – a bird who’s never worked out how to lay an egg?
Instead, Cornelius ends up in a bubbling hot tub of trouble involving high tech security, a possible operation involving a meat cleaver, and a romantic rooster who thinks he’s Romeo and God’s gift to chickens.
Can Cornelius escape this feather brained body switch disaster, or is he destined to be remembered forever as one giant dumb cluck?
Disability Own Voices
Middle Grade, Comedy, Humour, Middle Grade Humour, Body Swap, Gross Out Humour, Body Switch, Family Tensions
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.
