The head lice are coming! This is Nit Boy, my new book, out July, 2020. If you’ve ever had nits, been a nit inspector or come up with an ingenious new nit cure (like peanut butter, orange juice or wasabi), this is the book for you. It’s actually two books in one – a rerelease of my Nit Boy books which first hit shelves in 2009 with Laguna Bay Publishing, a little publisher who gave me my start as an author.
But it turns out that head lice are still pretty popular on heads everywhere eleven years on. (Why have we not cured this by now?). So we’ve updated the cover and the text and the amazing Heath McKenzie illustrations and Penguin Random House Australia is launching nits back into the world in July. It’s a fun one for this year’s Book Week theme, too – Curious Creatures, Wild Minds.
You can pre-order the book via Penguin here. Soon, you’ll be able to see the video book trailer, read the first chapter and listen to the soundtrack here. Or you can sign up for my monthly (really, about four times a year) eNewsletter here to keep up to date on when and how the nits are coming, so you can be prepared. In the meantime, here’s what it’s about…
