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Aaron Blabey

Author of The Bad Guys

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About the Author

Aaron Blabey was born in 1974 in Australia. He is an author of children's books and artist who until the mid-2000s was also an actor. His award winning picture books include Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley, The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon and the best-selling Pig the Pug. His other bestsellers show more include I Need a Hug. Pig the Elf. Don't Call Me Bear, Thelma the Unicorn, and Pig the Star. He is well known in the field of acting for his roles in two television dramedies, 1994's The Damnation of Harvey McHugh, for which he won an Australian Film Institute Award, and 2003's CrashBurn, before retiring from performance in 2005. In 2012, he was the National Literacy Ambassador and in May 2015 his book The Brother's Quibble was read by an estimated 500,000 children during the National Simultaneous Storytime. His book The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon won the Patricia Wrightson Award from the 2013 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, the 2013 Children's Peace Literature Award and was recorded by Nick Cave for the Story Box Library. His 2015 book Pig the Pug won the Young Australian's Best Book Award 2015 in the Picture storybook category and the 2015 Kids Own Australian Literature Award New South Wales' in the Picture Storybook category.The Bad Guys, Episode 1 won the 2016 Indie Book Awards Best Children's book, the 2016 Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Award for Fiction for younger readers, and the 2016 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs) for Fiction for younger readers. Pig the Fibber won the 2016 Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Awards for Picture storybooks and the 2016 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs) for Picture Books. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Series

Works by Aaron Blabey

The Bad Guys (2015) 1,885 copies
Pig the Pug (2014) 1,496 copies
Thelma the Unicorn (2015) 1,053 copies
Pig the Winner (2016) 801 copies
The Bad Guys in Superbad (2018) 735 copies
Pig the Stinker (2018) 718 copies
I Need a Hug (2015) 687 copies
Pig the Elf (2016) 680 copies
Pig the Star (2017) 677 copies
Pig the Fibber (2015) 671 copies
Pig the Blob (2020) 443 copies
The Bad Guys in The One?! (2020) 431 copies
Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas (2015) 426 copies
Pig the Monster (2021) 382 copies
Pig the Tourist (2019) 359 copies
Don't Call Me Bear! (2016) 355 copies
Pig the Rebel (2022) 300 copies
Sunday Chutney (2008) 85 copies
Busting! (2017) 52 copies
The Bad Guys: Episode 1 (2015) 32 copies
Stanley Paste (2009) 30 copies
The Dreadful Fluff (2012) 30 copies
The Brothers Quibble (2014) 27 copies
Guff (2017) 22 copies
Pig the Pug: Love Pug (2023) 15 copies
Pig the Pug Collection (2014) 14 copies
Noah Dreary (2013) 12 copies
The Bad Guys: Episode 7&8 (2019) 8 copies
The Bad Guys: Episode 5&6 (2018) 8 copies
Bad Guys Book Series 1-14 (2021) 6 copies
Bad Guys Book Series 1-16 (2022) 5 copies
The Bad Guys - 4 Book Set (2015) 3 copies
Pig the Pub 6 Book Set (2020) 2 copies
Carlos le glouton (2020) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Bad Guys [2022 film] (2022) — Original story — 55 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate
1974-01-01
Gender
male
Nationality
Australia
Birthplace
Victoria, Australia
Places of residence
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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{My thoughts} – This book begins with The Bad Guys all discussing the death of Mr. Snake. If you can recall from the last book that he’d fallen off the space ship and they didn’t know what happened to him after that, so they were left to assume he’d died.

The Bad Guys and the Bad Girls take the time to discuss how they are in need of a name change. So they come up with The Shadow Squad G. Once they have a name they go with it because it is different and it helps to include both the Bad Guys and the Bad Girls in a whole new group. It’s nice to see that no one is being left out. I actually like the new name.

I look forward to seeing what is going to take place in the next book as I have enjoyed this series from the beginning. It is fun to read, interesting and well all around just good in so many ways. I like that it is funny and engaging for children.

I recommend this series for any child that enjoys graphic novels and a good laugh!
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Zapkode | 1 other review | Jun 1, 2024 |
{My thoughts} – Aaron Blabey is quickly becoming one of my favorite children’s authors. He has quite a few incredible book series out there. I am really happy to see this one become a board book set, because it’s one that I am sure my three year old is going to enjoy.

Pig is a pug and he doesn’t want to share his toys. He says they are all his and he shouldn’t have to. He collects them all into a pile, he stands on it and he falls and gets hurt.

I like how this story shows that sharing is important. It also shows that when you don’t share you hurt others as well as yourself. It is a good lesson for littles to hear and learn.

The illustrations and the words go together nicely. It is written in a type of rhyme format but the whole thing isn’t rhyme. It all flows really well and is easy to read and understand.

I really do hope that the rest of the series is released in this format as it is one I look forward to getting for my littles.
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Zapkode | 22 other reviews | Jun 1, 2024 |
{My thoughts} – Mr. Wolf ends up turning into The Big Bad Wolf. It is up to his friends to figure out who is going to try and talk him down and who is going to fight against the aliens.

I found this book to be very slow reading unlike the previous ones in the series. I really have been enjoying this series, however, there wasn’t really a lot of laugh out loud moments in this book. Not like it has been with the previous in the series. I feel that the author was trying to hard to set the tone for the next book and it took away from this book in a sense.

I do like how this book is put together. I am just not a big fan of the way in which it’s story was executed. I do hope that the next book in the series helps to make up for the flaws within the pages of this one.

The illustrations and the text are spot on and go together hand and hand. I look forward to reading more books in this series in the future.

Final Conclusion: 4 Star Rating.
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Zapkode | 1 other review | Jun 1, 2024 |
{My thoughts} – The Bad Guys get to spend this book up in outer space on a space ship. It turns out they haven’t quite figured out how to defeat the evil guinea pig. Can they do it before this book ends? I’m not sure, read on to find out more.

Snake gets the chance to be more then a self-fish unwanted pain in the butt. However, he still is only able to think of himself. After all his friends disappear all he can think about it saving himself. Or is it? Does he save himself? Or does he choose to help his friends? Read on to find out.

I really enjoyed this book. The end of it gives us a small taste of what is to come like all the other books. I have to say the readers are really in for a treat with this one. I am curious though if we will learn of Earth’s fate anytime soon? I look forward to reading on into the next book shortly.
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