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Lottie Brooks’s Essential Guide to Life

Lottie Brooks’s Essential Guide to Life

Write Your own Diary with Lottie: activities and advice from the hilarious Lottie Brooks!

Summary

From hilarious MEGA-bestselling author, Katie Kirby, comes a brand-new Lottie Brooks book with a twist!

Hi, Lottie Brooks here! I’ve just found out that you’ve all been reading about my most EMBARRASSING moments for years . . . it’s meant to be my TOTALLY SECRET PRIVATE DIARY!!

Seems like it’s only fair then that it’s YOUR TURN!

Lottie has been sharing her most cringe-inducing moments for years, and this book sums up all of Lottie’s knowledge and wisdom for a totally ESSENTIAL guide to life. Lottie and her friends are here to help you through those tweenage years with their best advice on school, friendship, crushes and, most importantly, SNACKS.

Filled with BRAND-NEW stories and Lottie inspired activities, plus space for you to write and draw as well, grab a pen (and maybe a KitKat Chunky, for energy) and get ready to learn from Lottie!

What will you find inside:


  • Tips and advice from Lottie
  • Hilarious activities including Would you Rather, design your Drink of Dreams, list your top snacks, quizzes and more!
  • Space to write and illustrate your very own diary
  • Takeovers from Jess and Amber
  • Mum’s guidance on the ‘Amazing Journey to Womanhood’ (hmm, actually you might want to skip that page)

About the author

Katie Kirby

Katie Kirby is a writer and illustrator who lives by the sea in Hove with her husband, two sons and dog Sasha.

She has a degree in Advertising and Marketing and after spending several years working in London media agencies, which basically involved hanging out in fancy restaurants and pretending to know what she was talking about, she had some children and decided to start a blog called 'Hurrah for Gin' about the gross injustice of it all.

Many people said her sense of humour was silly and immature so she now writes children's books.

Katie likes gin, rabbits, over-thinking things, the smell of launderettes and Monster Munch. She does not like losing at board games or writing about herself in the third person.
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