The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh

Helen Rutter (author)

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.

A tough career for anyone, but surely impossible for Billy, who has 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.

Helen lives in the countryside just outside Sheffield with her comedian husband, two children and two dogs, Ronnie and Billy Whizz. When she is not tapping away in her writing room, she loves walking the dogs, playing board games and reading. Before writing her first novel, The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh, Helen wrote and performed her work on the stage and has even braved some stand-up comedy.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scholastic; 1st edition (4 Feb. 2021)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 360 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780702300851
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.3 x 2 x 20.1 cm