Anna Brooke – författare

“I didn’t want to think about spiritual woo-woo or goddesses or mindfulness. But Legs, without even deliberately intending to, led me to see that all those things supported my individuality while helping me be of more service to my students. She led by example, keeping her sharp sense of humor even as she maintained her kindness and sensitivity.” - Jo Weldon, Headmistress of the New York School of Burlesque and author of The Burlesque Handbook Stripped Down is about one woman’s journey into deeper levels of acceptance and love of herself through the powerful art form of burlesque. When she was young, she “felt adrift...like I was water, taking the shape of whatever container I was currently poured into." Like many, she felt anxious around her appearance, struggling with an eating disorder and toxic beauty standards. When Anna discovers a vibrant form of self-expression in the most unlikely of places, the rest of her life begins. She explores her growth and development through the book, but even more: in sharing her story, she can teach every reader the same things she learned. Chapters include: • Why This and Why Me?• Burlesque the Beginning: The Celebration of the Sensual, Sacred Feminine• The Myth of Separation: How Being "Not Enough" Led Me to Burlesque• Hiding the Magic: Fear and Limitations of the Female Form & Feminine Energy• Judgment: Releasing the Ties that Bind• Burlesque as Medicine: The Revolution Starts Within• Making Peace with the BodyAnna, through her alter ego Legs Malone, explores what creates limitations - money, power, misogyny, trauma, systemic racism, shame - to help the reader break free. By saying yes to the messages that lie deep in her heart, she shows us how the opinions, judgments and fears of others fall away as her unexpected path emerges - and how you can do it too, with or without burlesque. As she says so eloquently in Stripped Down, "When one person makes the brave choice to own their joy and honor their unique voice, it acts as a giant game of dominoes. Inspiration and recognition build and resonate with each dropped and fallen thought of not-enoughness."If Yes Please, Year of Yes and Girl, Wash Your Face had a baby birthed by Dita von Teese, it would be this book.

A hideous monster needs YOUR help to reverse the spell so he can return to his gorgeous self! Will you play along and help?“Excuse me? You – yes, you! A naughty fairy has turned me into this hideous monster, and I need YOUR help to cure me!”Help the monster reverse the spell by shouting SAUSAGES! ten times, picking his nose (and wiping it on a grown up), and, well you don’t want to know what happens when you press his nose. Do everything right and he’ll return to his true form and be gorgeous again . . . or so he thinks.An interactive, play-along story guaranteed to make you giggle!

Two little dicky birds, sitting on the wall, "Hello, Peter, hello . . . wait, where did Paul go?!" Help Peter rescue Paul in this interactive story! Tickle dragon's nose to save Paul from being gobbled up, cast a spell to get him out of the witch’s house, and find a way to help him escape a dark, scary cave – all while a hapless Paul is completely oblivious to the danger he’s in! Can you help Peter save Paul and get him back to their wall safely?A fun play-along adventure to read again and again.

Dear Nose-Pickers, are you well? Good. Then comecloser. For I'm about to tell you a right slimer of a tale ...In it, there's a bogey monster, two best friends, four daredevilslugs, a neighbour so wicked she'll give you the willy-willy-woo-woosand a castle with secret chambers.Will it end happily?No ... Yes ... Sorry, I don't know!You'd better ask the cabaret-singing spider ... A fantastic slimer of a tale by the hilarious Anna BrookeLaugh-out-loud funny – Frankenstein meetsbogeys! Perfect for fans of Who Let the Gods Out?, MrGum and Charlie Changes into a Chicken 'Bound to get right up teachers’ noses, this funny storyis snot to be missed. A top pick for your KS2 library.' SCHOOLREADING LIST'From the fabulous cover with nose holes, through to all thebogey references, children will really enjoy picking this storyto read!' JUST IMAGINE

The snot-tastic sequel to Anna Brooke's hilariously funnyMonster Bogey – guaranteed to make you giggle!'This funny story is snot to be missed. A top pick for yourKS2 library.' SCHOOL READING LIST on MONSTER BOGEYDear nose-pickers, Gooliemaloolie! There’s SO much in thisbook, I don’t know where to start.There’s a sixty-foot monster on the rampage, the world’smost prestigious entertainment competition, a troop of terrifyingcriminals, an evil science experiment, SNOT (yeah, WAVESof that) and – I can hardly bring myself to say it –the STINKUS-DINKUS-INUS-NOZZLEUS-HORRIBLIS!What’s that? Only a stink so terrible it’ll give youthe whiffy-whiffy-woo-woos . . . Will it all end well? No . .. Yes . . . Oh, I don’t know! You’d better ask Fergusthe smelly field mouse . . .   The stinkingly brilliant sequel to Anna Brooke’shit debut, Monster Bogey!A striking child-friendly package with hilarious illustrationsby Owen LindsayPerfect for fans of Tom Gates, Who Let the Gods Out?and Mr Gum

Packed full of humour and chocolate, it's the perfectmiddle-grade mystery!'Remember saying you were going to bed and sneaking underthe covers with your favourite book and a torch? Death by Chocolatebrings back vivid memories of hiding out with a goodold-fashioned mystery.' JUNIOR MAGAZINE'This is an intriguing story, a mix of mystery, adventureand above all chocolate! 5 stars' READINGZONECoco's parents have poured everything into a struggling Frenchhotel. But the hotel is haunted by a bitter old ghost, MonsieurFramboise, a chocolatier who met a sticky end.He agrees to share his legendary skills with Coco and her newfriend Louis in exchange for their help in uncovering the truth behindhis murder.Can Coco and Louis save the family hotel and solve the mystery? The Great Chocoplot meets Chocolat,with a dash of Murder Most Unladylike.Humour, mystery and chocolate! An older middle-grade debut from the hilarious authorAnna Brooke.

Coco Bean is back with a brand new mystery! Murder is afoot ... again!In this new adventure, Coco and Louis face street urchin ghosts,a hot air balloon, and a revenge plot dating all the way backto the French Revolution. Can the children save the competition and unwrap the mystery,before the clock strikes midnight on Christmas Eve? A new adventure in the Coco Bean Investigates series,which began with Death by Chocolate More laughs, mystery and (of course) chocolate - justin time for ChristmasThink The Great British Bake Off meets Murder Most Unladylike... with added ghosts!

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