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Just! is a series of short story collections by Australian children's author Andy Griffiths, illustrated by Terry Denton and based on the author's early life. It has been described as a portrayal of the antics of a "notorious mischiefmaker" who plans various pranks and schemes to, among other things, dodge doing a chore or going to school. The series, whose first book was released in Australia in 1997 as Just Tricking! and later in North America as Just Kidding, consists of nine books. The Canadian animated series What's with Andy?, which ran on Teletoon from 2001 to 2007, was loosely based on this book series.
Griffiths began writing when he was in the fifth grade when he purchased a typewriter at a second-hand stall at school and created his own magazine, which he sold there for less than five cents. In high school he began writing for the school's magazine. At university he studied English and American literature, wrote songs for his own rock band, and studied to become a teacher. He began publishing the humorous books that were the precursors to the Just! series during his teaching career.
Mark Macleod notes that much of the stories in Just Tricking deal with the day-to-day lives of the target audience, school-aged children, such as avoiding going to school, and the subsequent battle between parent and child and ultimately, who wins in such a scenario.
Andrew McMichael from Western Kentucky University writes:
“The idea is to appeal to their sense of the absurd and crazy, and to push (but not cross) the boundaries of what their parents might consider socially acceptable. The books seem to take the socially accepted norms that kids are forced into in their early years and twist them.”
Mark Macleod writes in The interdisciplinary Press that Just Tricking, the first book in the series, is “fiction for a generation whose favourite response to any lack of resolution is the shrug, ‘whatever’”. Macleod also claims that the first-person tense of the book and the naming of the main character Andy blurs the line between fiction and autobiography. Thus Macleod describes this character as ‘living in the elusive space between the creator and the text’.
Alternative Titles: Just Joking! and Just Kidding!
Released: 1997
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Just!
Just! is a series of short story collections by Australian children's author Andy Griffiths, illustrated by Terry Denton and based on the author's early life. It has been described as a portrayal of the antics of a "notorious mischiefmaker" who plans various pranks and schemes to, among other things, dodge doing a chore or going to school. The series, whose first book was released in Australia in 1997 as Just Tricking! and later in North America as Just Kidding, consists of nine books. The Canadian animated series What's with Andy?, which ran on Teletoon from 2001 to 2007, was loosely based on this book series.
Griffiths began writing when he was in the fifth grade when he purchased a typewriter at a second-hand stall at school and created his own magazine, which he sold there for less than five cents. In high school he began writing for the school's magazine. At university he studied English and American literature, wrote songs for his own rock band, and studied to become a teacher. He began publishing the humorous books that were the precursors to the Just! series during his teaching career.
Mark Macleod notes that much of the stories in Just Tricking deal with the day-to-day lives of the target audience, school-aged children, such as avoiding going to school, and the subsequent battle between parent and child and ultimately, who wins in such a scenario.
Andrew McMichael from Western Kentucky University writes:
“The idea is to appeal to their sense of the absurd and crazy, and to push (but not cross) the boundaries of what their parents might consider socially acceptable. The books seem to take the socially accepted norms that kids are forced into in their early years and twist them.”
Mark Macleod writes in The interdisciplinary Press that Just Tricking, the first book in the series, is “fiction for a generation whose favourite response to any lack of resolution is the shrug, ‘whatever’”. Macleod also claims that the first-person tense of the book and the naming of the main character Andy blurs the line between fiction and autobiography. Thus Macleod describes this character as ‘living in the elusive space between the creator and the text’.
Alternative Titles: Just Joking! and Just Kidding!
Released: 1997