Book page. Dog wrapped in string of sausages, with a poem. (See next picture for poem text.)

Gravy is Not Perfume People who dab gravy on their wrists and below their ears get eaten by dogs more often than people who don't. So, if your mother says to do it, be sure to say you won't.

Book cover. Big yellow. With mouse and poet and lots of badges, not badgers. The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice. Spectacularly silly poems by A.F. Harrold Fizzingly fun illustrations by Mini Grey

Am on a train to visit a school in Cambridge, so I'll share this nugget of advice I remembered from the childhood times following mum round the front of department stores trying the free perfumes.

From #TheBookOfNotEntirelyUsefulAdvice by me & @mini3grey.bsky.social (@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social)

Detail from a page in a book with a framed homily that says 'Don't read books by other authors. Most of them are rubbish and are full of spelling mistaokes.'

Big yellow book cover for The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice by A.F. Harrold and Mini Grey.

An example of the index pages, telling you where to find poems about spaghetti, spelling, spiders, etc.

Just some simple honest advice from me and @mini3grey.bsky.social. You're welcome.

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A crocodile emerging from a bowl of porridge.

A tiger pouncing on a toasted cheese sandwich.

At Halloween #MiniGrey and I did an event at #Caper indie bookshop in Oxford, with #TheBookOfNotEntirelyUsefulAdvice, and she did two drawalongs for the kids. Here are my results.

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Here isn't a little poem from #TheBookOfNotEntirelyUsefulAdvice by me and @mini3grey.bsky.social.

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