The Incredibly Boring Monotonous Family
Barry, Phil

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A Dahl-esque fantasy adventure for children in which the very boring Monotonous family discovers a taste for excitement through the workings of a magic key.

Ann and Stan Monotonous are extremely brainy nine-year-old twins. However, their family life is painfully dull - dull routines, stultifying hobbies - even their meals are agonisingly awful, as they are all rigidly based on the most basic of food pyramids. Their only excitement in life is a recording of a bland voice reciting the numbers of pi which they listen to in the car.

Then one day Ann Monotonous finds a magic key. The key comes with a special message and Ann suddenly, and literally, finds exciting new doors opening for the Monotonous family. Then the unthinkable happens - the Monotonous family becomes entirely too exciting. Now it's up to Ann to save her family... from themselves.

Author Information

Philip Barry is a 24-year-old English and History teacher. He has been a secondary teacher for the past two years and has worked and lived in a boys boarding school for five. He writes poetry and stories, and The Incredibly Boring Monotonous Family is his first novel.

Charlotte Lance is a 27-year-old artist who lives in Melbourne. Her other work includes the picture book Click Go the Shears, which is due to be published by Scholastic Australia in 2008.