Kaz’s best known book, Up the Duff: the Real Guide to Pregnancy, continues to be the market leader after 10 years in print: a revised edition was published in 2009. It is available in many other countries under different titles, including Embarazada (Pregnant; Spain) A Bun in the Oven (USA) and El Bella di Pancione (The Beauty of the Belly; Italy). A revised edition of Up the Duff's sequel, Kidwrangling: Caring for Kids Aged 0 to 5 is on the way, as is Women's Stuff, a grown-up version of her bestselling book from 2007, Girl Stuff: Your Full On Guide to the Teen Years. Girl Stuff won several Australian awards including Non Fiction Book of the Year at the Australian Publishing Industry Awards, and the Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year. Kaz has written and illustrated two picture books for small children: The Terrible Underpants and Wanda-Linda Goes Berserk. Her backlist (older titles) includes Real Gorgeous; collections of her newspaper columns including Get a Grip; Get Another Grip; Living With Crazy Buttocks, which won The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year in 2002; and her 'Little Book' series: from the Little Book of Stress (a send up of The Little Book of Calm), through The Little Book of Dumb Feng Shui and the Little Book of Diet and Exercise ("why not kayak to work?"). Useful websites: www. kazcooke.com Kaz's own website: you are here. www.kazbook.com Where Kaz conducts surveys for her books. www.uptheduffbook.com Up the Duff site. www.kidwranglingbook.com Kidwrangling site. www.girlstuffbook.com Girl Stuff site. www.penguin.com.au Penguin Australia. www.roughguides.com Kaz's books are in the reference section. In the UK Kaz's books are published by the Rough Guides travel and reference publishers. Kaz's books have been translated into many languages and for many markets including the UK, the US, Spain, Italy, China and Latvia. Yes, Latvia. Here's a full list of her "back catalogue": |
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Up the Duff - NEW EDITION The new edition of Up the Duff is out now, with all the favourite features including week-by-week info on what's happening to you and the baby and Hermoine's hilarious pregnancy diary, plus new stuff for blokes, all the latest on medical tests including when to have them and why, what you need to know if you're trying to get pregnant and what to do if it's not happening, help with feelings about post-baby body image and sex, and all the latest medical and emotional help you need, including stacks of recommended websites, contacts and books on special issues. |
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Girl Stuff: Your Full On Guide to the Teen Years. With over 600 pages and heaps of cartoons, Girl Stuff is written especially for girls and has has everything they need to know about: friends, body changes, shopping, clothes, make-up, pimples (arrghh), sizes, hair, earning money, guys, embarrassment, what to eat, moods, smoking, why diets suck, handling love and heartbreak, exercise, school stress, sex, beating bullies and mean girls, drugs, drinking, how to find new friends, cheering up, how to get on with your family, and confidence. Each chapter includes facts, hints, inspiring lists, hundreds of quotes from real girls, and details for over 350 websites, books and other information. Written in extensive consultation with more than 70 medical, and practical experts, Girl Stuff provides the most up-to-date and useful information possible. Visit www.girlstuffbook.com.au |
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kidwrangling: the Real Guide to Caring for Babies, Toddlers and Preschoolers
Now you have a baby, what on earth are you going to do with it? Kaz Cooke delivers all the up-to-date, reliable info, with advice from the experts, including real mums and dads. Kidwrangling is funny, reassuring and practical, with no judgemental guruspeak about the right way to do things - just a range of great solutions for you to choose from. BABIES: getting through the first weeks/ bosoms/ bottles/ sleeping/ crying / coping / new mum & newborn health / bonding/ the blues / mum's post-baby body / equipment / first food/ teething/ dummies/ vaccination. TODDLERS and PRESCHOOLERS: using the loo/ teaching kids how to behave/ dealing with common illnesses / family food / child care/ exercise/ getting ready for school PLUS: emotional and physical development 0 to 5 / games, toys & activities / safety / what dads need to know/ birthday parties & presents / being at home/ paid work / travel / best-ever lists of where to go for extra help/ & much more NOT TO MENTION: the hilarious How to Be Perfect Routine ('Adjust push-up bra, exfoliate feet, clean up sick'). Published by Penguin Australia, Penguin UK, Ten Speed Press USA and Canada, Tianjin Education Press China, Ediciones B in Spain (as Hijos). |
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The Little Book of Beauty
Keep lipstick smudge-free by not eating, talking or moving. Strap down those genitals, men - we all like a tidy look. False eyelashes spell glamour. False nostrils indicate a psychotic episode. The Little Book of Beauty won't necessarily make you more attractive - but hey, if you can't have a face like a supermodel's, you may as well laugh your head off. published by Penguin Australia |
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The Terrible Underpants
'My Giddy Aunt, what a frightful pair of underpants.' - Mrs Kafoops What would you do if everyone in the whole wide world saw your Terrible Underpants? That's the problem Wanda-Linda has to solve, one windy day. The Terrible Underpants is a warm, funny story about sprinklers, a helicopter, Mrs Kafoops, a hairy-nosed wombat called Glenda - and some worn out elastic. This is Kaz's first book for children - aged 3 to 10. "... terrific, bold and cheerful... dozens of groovy knickers." - The Sunday Age "Kaz Cooke's first book for children and, let us pray, not her last." - Quality Time Magazine "... snappy sophisticated and daring... The Terrible Underpants is an uproarious picture book about the pants that just won't go away." - The Saturday Times (UK) "Unlike the terrible underpants, this great book never seems to wear thin." - The London Observer (UK) published by Penguin Australia |
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WANDA-LINDA goes BERSERK
Wanda-Linda and Glenda ride again in this gorgeous and hilarious follow-up to the bestselling Terrible Underpants. But who would ever have thought that Wanda-Linda's shocking tantrum could end up involving a horrified hairy-nosed wombat, a packet of butter and the fire brigade? A funny, warm and understanding picture book about bad moods and tantrums and how to get over them. |
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Up The Duff
The one, the only brilliant Aussie bible on being 'up the duff'. Kaz gives you the up to date lowdown on pregnancy, birth and coping when you get home. No bossy boots rules. Just lots of cartoons and the soundest, sanest, wittiest advice you'll ever get. Everything you need to know about the scary parts, the funny parts and your private parts.
NOT TO MENTION: How to prepare for pregnancy and the baby; crying, eating, weeing and working; blokes, bosoms, busybodies and bunny rugs; nausea and other 'side effects"; choosing an obstetrician and a midwife; tests; what they're like and who they're for; the best services and books on everything; stretchmarks; maternity and baby clothes; childbirth classes, travel, safety, baby names and how to be rude to complete strangers; childbirth and pain relief; what to expect in hospital; breastfeeding; what it's like with a newborn baby. 'A wealth of good, up-to date information...she wisely goes beyond the delivery to discuss establishing breastfeeding, baby blues and practical things...This is an impressive, well researched and tightly edited book." -review, Australian Doctor Weekly magazine "Insane humour and sane advice" - Sydney Morning Herald "Get Kaz Cooke's 'Up The Duff' for advice and a large dollop of humour" - Vogue Australia Some letters from readers (names have been changed): "Magnificent..I've never in my life read anything so honest, and yet so humorous. I'm 37 and 27 weeks pregnant with my seventh child" - Sharon, Garbutt, Queensland "Getting the book was the best $30 I ever spent" -Kylie, 18, Wentworthville, Sydney "I could not get over how week by week I seemed to be experiencing exactly what you said I could expect. It was so reassuring...the humour was great...hubby was bemused by my constant laughter" -Jana, 33, Montmorency, Victoria "Thankyou for conveying the often contradictory feelings about being up the duff...how it made me burst out laughing when little else could make me smile at my seemingly endless discomforts" -Fran, 29, Ringwood, Victoria "It's accurate, humourous, and gives people ideas rather than "must do"s: just what is needed. I shall use it and recommend it to my clients" -Grace, private breastfeeding consultant; maternal and child health nurse, Guildford, WA "We hadn't planned on becoming parents and had only four months to get used to the idea. Your book was great in helping us achieve this. We now have a beautiful baby daughter." - Patrice, Elwood, Victoria Published by Penguin Australia, also published in China by Tianjin Education Press, the USA and Canada by Ten Speed Press as Bun In the Oven, and in Spain by Ediciones B as Embarazada. Also published as Il Bello Del Pancione (The Beauty of the Belly) by Piemme Publishers, Italy. |
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The Little Book of Household Madness
'Will have you in fits of laughter. Silliness that's good for the soul.' TV Week Do you have a perfectly balanced life full of fashionable friends, witty table decorations, silent but well-dressed children, sparkling champagne flutes, and a splendid wee job? Do you plan simply divine Moroccan dinner parties for sixteen people while crocheting all your own underpants from native grass clippings? Here, for the first time, is a ludicrous selection of invaluable advice and household hints which will render you and your household completely barking mad. published by Penguin Australia |
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The Little Book of Dumb Feng Shui
Feng Shui (pronounced fung-shway) is the traditional Chinese art of creating good fortune by rearranging furniture and introducing special symbols such as wind chimes into your home. But Dumb Feng Shui is much funnier. 'Red tassels will enliven any area. I personally have found it particularly helpful in the nipple department.' 'Doors should always open inward and smack yourself repeatedly in the face with an outward opening door.' published by Penguin Australia |
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Women's Trouble, by Ruth Trickey and Kaz Cooke
Women's Trouble by Kaz Cooke and herbalist Ruth trickey, covers the first period to the last, and everything that can go wrong in between. Adapted from Ruth's textbook classic for herbalists and medical practioners, 'Women, Hormones and the Menstrual Cycle', 'Women's Trouble' is for ordinary women who have a problem, or want to know how everything works and how to maintain good health. Fun to read, yet sensible and thorough, 'Women's Trouble', illustrated with Kaz's cartoons, helps you to make your own decisions about treatment. it explains the best self-care, natural therapies and medical solutions for a huge range of "women's troubles". WE COVER:
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Living With Crazy Buttocks
Featuring material from the 'Foxy Ladies' radio show, the follow up to 'Get A Grip' Discover how to find your Inner Bloke, wear a colander correctly, see the romance in a dim sim, and keep your dignity when you're dumped by a married man (call him Mr Poophead). Thrill to the gripping soapie Casino! ('Look out! That iceberg has a gun!'). Get your gardening tips from Ivy, the pesticide-addled expert ('Gardening: it's just poetry with rubber gloves on'). And go far, far into the lurid heart of modern excess with the feral, fearless and fabulously funny Kaz Cooke. No buttocks were harmed during the making of this book. Winner of 2002 Diagram Prize England Oddest Book Title of the Year published by Penguin Australia |
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Get a Grip
A book of wit, wisdom, wild flights of fancy and wicked good sense. Kaz's observations on NASA; interior design; collective nouns; lerv; wierdos, and how to find your Inner Nanna. Get a Grip is fierce, frank, funny, intelligent and informative: a collection of original newspaper columns, and everything you need to know about thigh boots, political correctness, food fads, foreign policy and the sex life of clams. "A writing style somewhere between Jane Austen and a hand grenade" - William Fraser, Sydney Morning Herald. published by Penguin Australia |
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Get Another Grip
The sequel to Get A Grip (above) - more utter nonsense from Kaz for no particular reason. She has fun with everything from dork sports to feng shui, and from mad scientists to loony fashion. Not to mention K-Mart false bosoms; inflatable insect willies; the squoozy woozy leg virus and how not to pick up girls. Kaz on modern dance: "People who can't act pooncing around in the nuddy". On why yogis wear white: "They never have to strip a carburettor". On proof of alien visits: "In a genuine alien autopsy film the pathologists wear party hats". published by The Text Publishing Company, Australia |
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The Arts of Beauty & Hints to Gentleman on the Art of Fascinating, by Lola Montez, cartoons by Kaz Cooke
Lola Montez was he greatest show-off on earth. Born in 1818, she was famous for being rowdy, wicked and gorgeous. She travelled to all corners of the earth,seducing royalty, performing sexy dances, and throwing tantrums. She drove men mad with a glimpse of her breasts and horsewhipped those who insulted her, including an Australian reporter. In this smart and hilarious guide to beauty, first published in 1858, Lola Montez offers a bizarre series of hints on everything from make-up to hair disasters. And she has a word or two of indispensable advice for men who want to seduce women. With her marvellous cartoons and introduction to Lola's life Kaz Cooke has paid homage to the original Modern Girl. If you've ever wondered whether squeezing orange juice into your eyes will brighten them, or tried to charm a girl by peering down her cleavage, The Arts of Beauty is the book for you. published by The Text Publishing Company, Australia |
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The Little Book of Crap, by Kaz Cooke and Simon Weaselpantz
The most fun you can have between two covers! At last! The Little Book of Crap - the inevitable follow-up to Kaz Cooke's The Little Book of Stress. It's about as useful as all those other tiny books - but it will make you laugh! published by Penguin Australia |
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The Little Book of Stress
The original, mad, hilarious and bestselling send-up of 'The Little Book of Calm'. published by Penguin Australia |
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Real Gorgeous
Special Bonus Fact: You are not your buttocks. This bestseller has aleady brought confidence and fun to thousands of girls and women around the world in need of an image boost. Real Gorgeous delivers no-nonsense information about size,shape, self-esteem and the cellulite scam. Beauty tips will never be the same after this! Packed with jokes, cartoons and up-dated resources for nationwide services, it will make you laugh and help you make friends with your body. "Australia's most revolutionary guide for growing girls." - Canberra Times "...gives girls the wherewithal to fight body police and brainwashers." - The Australian "A funny, sensible book about truth and beauty...Cooke offers sound advice, realistic expectations and facts every women has to love and every teenager ought to know." - USA Today "...a hip and funny guide to womanhood, essential reading for every teenage girl (and her mum)." - Kate Grenville "Kaz Cooke deserves a medal." - New Zealand Sunday Star Times published by Allen & Unwin, Australia |
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