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How to Outsmart a Grown-up: 101 Life Hacks and Fun Facts Just for Kids : A wacky and creative guide packed with secrets and fun things to do, from a Lollies award-winner! - Larry Hayes

How to Outsmart a Grown-up: 101 Life Hacks and Fun Facts Just for Kids

A wacky and creative guide packed with secrets and fun things to do, from a Lollies award-winner!

By: Larry Hayes, Joelle Dreidemy (Illustrator)

Paperback | 25 August 2025

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Packed with 101 exciting secrets just for kids, this hilarious guide to growing up is perfect for any child who wants to have fun, be challenged and outsmart a grown-up!

Ever wondered how to not laugh when someone farts, how to invent an epic game or even how to decode grown-up lies? Or are you just fed up with grown-ups thinking they know more than you? Then this is the book for you! This funny and accessible guide has 101 creative and funny ways to outsmart adults! A hilarious book from the author of the How to Survive... series, this fact-packed non-fiction book is perfect for fans of Adam Kay, Matt Lucas and the Tom Gates series.

About the Author

Larry Hayes is easily distracted. So when he’s not writing books for children he can be found working as an investment fund manager and the trustee for a homeless charity. In the future he hopes to become a treasure hunter, private investigator, inventor of a yoghurt that makes you happy, Olympic croquet medallist and the person who solves the maths behind the human brain. Larry’s debut fiction book for children, How to Survive Without Grown-Ups, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2021.

About the Illustrator

Joelle Dreidemy was born in Saint-Avold in France. She gained a diploma in Strasbourg in 2002 and a diploma from the famous Emile Cohl School in Lyon in 2004. Joëlle lives and works in Paris, producing illustrations for magazines and children's books.

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