Nathalia Buttface and the Most Embarrassing Five Minutes of Fame Ever. Nigel Smith
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2015
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Nathalia Buttface and the Most Embarrassing Five Minutes of Fame Ever
Text copyright © Nigel Smith, 2015
Illustrations copyright © Sarah Horne, 2015
Cover art © Sarah Horne, 2015
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Source ISBN: 9780007545254
Ebook Edition © 2015 ISBN: 9780007545261
Version: 2015-06-05
To Carole, because without her I’d just be an embarrassing dad without a book.
And thank you to Nicola, because without her I wouldn’t have a title for this book. Which would be embarrassing.
Contents
Copyright
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
About the Author
Also by the Author
About the Publisher
“I’m not an idiot,” said Nat. “I’m not my dad.”
“Will you hurry up? My arms are getting tired,” complained Darius.
“Just hold the camera straight and press the record button when I tell you,” snapped Nat.
The three of them were in Nat’s back garden. It was a lovely warm afternoon at the end of the school holidays. The sun was shining, the flowers were out, Dad was upstairs trying to write Christmas cracker jokes and shouting rude words at his laptop, and the three friends were making a dance video.
The dance video was going very badly.
And so was Dad’s joke writing; every so often they would hear him yell: “Oh heck, that’s not funny. I’m doomed …”
“I wonder if he needs a hand,” said Darius, putting the camera down. “I’ve got a great joke about a monkey who needs to go to the toilet.”
“The ‘monkey who needs to go to the toilet’ joke is not a