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The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh by Helen Rutter

April 1, 2021 By achuka Leave a Comment

ACHUKA Book of the Day 1 Apr 2021
Cost Book Awards 2021 Shortlist

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A laugh-out-loud, against-all-odds triumph of a story.

Billy Plimpton is an eleven-year-old boy with a big dream. He wants to be a stand-up comedian when he grows up, delivering pinpoint punch-lines and having audiences hang on his every hilarious word. Surely an impossible ambition for a boy with a stammer. How will he find his voice, if his voice won’t let him speak?

The idea for this story came from Helen Rutter’s son, who has a stammer: she wanted to write the book that he would love to read, starring a child like him.

You may also be interested in this recent picture book about a boy with a stammer: I Talk Like A River an ACHUKA Book of the Day in January 2021.

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Filed Under: Blog, BookOfTheDay, Books, Humour Tagged With: comedy, funny, perform, speech, stammer, standup

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