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Breakfast Gets Silly is a whimsical Australian picture book that blends rhyme, counting, imagination and absurd humour into a playful breakfast-time adventure. The story follows a bright curly-haired girl whose simple wish for ""bacon and eggs"" quickly spirals into increasingly imaginative fantasies involving impossibly long legs, moonlit adventures, singing platypuses, musical kookaburras, crying lobsters, marrying flies, eccentric koalas and even high tea with a king. Told through rhythmic couplets and richly illustrated, painterly, scenes, the book captures the dreamlike logic of childhood imagination, where one strange thought naturally leads to another. Along the way, readers encounter a parade of iconic Australian animals woven into the story both as characters and as counting elements on each page. The counting mechanic aims to encourage early numeracy and pattern recognition while remaining fully integrated into the visual storytelling. The artwork combines warm interiors, moonlit landscapes and textured Australian bush settings with expressive animal characters and surreal visual comedy. Recurring motifs - especially the girl's absurdly long striped legs - give the book a strong visual identity. In the tradition of Edward Lear or Dr Seuss, but transplanted firmly into an Australian imaginative landscape, Breakfast Gets Silly celebrates creativity, curiosity and the wonderfully unpredictable way children think. Funny, affectionate and distinctly Australian, it is designed to be enjoyed both as a read-aloud experience and as a visual exploration children can revisit again and again.

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Alexander was born, raised and continues to live in Sydney, Australia. After a long career as a senior actuary working with major Australian institutions, he turned his attention to creative projects spanning film, animation and children's literature.He is currently developing The Graphic Handel's Messiah -A Musical Fantasy - an ambitious cinematic realisation of Handel's iconic musical work, translating the libretto and music into image and movement across the Australian landscape. The project is planned as five parts, with the first already released online where it has received several festival awards in the animation category.As the grandfather of three boisterous preschool-aged grandchildren, Alexander has developed a deep interest in children's picture books and early-learning storytelling. His books aim to combine warmth, humour and imaginative visual learning experiences that resonate with young children - whether read aloud by adults or explored independently by curious little ""readers"", just as his grandkids love to do with their own favoured books. Alexander was born, raised and continues to live in Sydney, Australia. After a long career as a senior actuary working with major Australian institutions, he turned his attention to creative projects spanning film, animation and children's literature.He is currently developing The Graphic Handel's Messiah -A Musical Fantasy - an ambitious cinematic realisation of Handel's iconic musical work, translating the libretto and music into image and movement across the Australian landscape. The project is planned as five parts, with the first already released online where it has received several festival awards in the animation category.As the grandfather of three boisterous preschool-aged grandchildren, Alexander has developed a deep interest in children's picture books and early-learning storytelling. His books aim to combine warmth, humour and imaginative visual learning experiences that resonate with young children - whether read aloud by adults or explored independently by curious little ""readers"", just as his grandkids love to do with their own favoured books.

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