Breakfast

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, dancing 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.