A lovely little picture book with beautiful illustrations that children will love.

"My book is about all the naughty things that my brother Charlie has done. Some of it is funny, some of it is a bit sad, and lots of it is disgusting, because that's what Charlie can be. It might even make you be sick, so get ready." These laugh-out-loud short stories are all about Charlie, a small, curious boy that pushes his luck... and then gives it another shove, just to see what will happen. It's how Mum ends up straddling a baggage carousel, Dad finds himself over-exposed at the pool, and a stranger gets a mouthful of stinky cheese. Primary-aged children up will love these warm, witty and occasionally revolting tales, narrated by Charlie's long-suffering sister. They're perfect as bedtime stories, or for reading by older kids, giggling by torchlight under the duvet.

A trouble-making bird is captured and taken to a zoo, but he escapes and heads for home.

Now one of the advantages of living in the treeless woods is the sun always shines. It never rains and it never snows. But there is a stream, which runs through it, which is affected by the outside people from the grown-up world. That's a land that surrounds the treeless wood. That's where Cheeky Charlie lives. The grown-ups in this land do not care about the animals that live in "The Treeless Wood", and most of all, they don't know Cheeky Charlie plays with her best friends, the animals there.

Charlie has four wobbly teeth| He can hardly wait to put them under his pillow for the tooth fairy| If only there was a way to make them fall out faster... The seventh book in this hilarious series, which also includes: Charlie and the Cat Flap, Charlie and the Great Escape, Charlie and the Big Snow, Charlie and the Rocket Boy, Charlie and the Cheese and Onion Crisps and Charlie and the Haunted Tent.

Charlie was bored, so he went around teasing the other animals. It didn't matter how nasty they said he was, he would not stop . . . until he saw his brother Furley with his brightly coloured bottom. Charlie is crushed to discover that the other monkeys are proud of their bottoms.

Brixton Keys gorgeously realized Charlie Six stands among the best coming-of-age novels with its poetic and realistic evocation of London in the 1960s and a boy who needs to bust out of its post-war mentality. Of course, it doesn't help that his father is a gangster and his mother a world-class nightlife addict. Charlie Six is as much at home mixing 'Gin and Its' as he is listening to the rock music and Beat poetry that charts his growth and finally leads to his escape. He has the frankness and tenderness of the best main characters with his truthful gaze and penetrating sense of his own circumstances. What Charlie learns along the way is both heartbreaking and hilarious – Maxine Chernoff, "Some of Her Friends That Year"