The Dog Ate My Bus Pass is a brilliant collection of hilarious poems featuring some of the world's most incredible excuses, apologies, tall stories and fibs. It is essential reading for all children (and some adults too!).

from The Worst Excuses in the World,

number 5 by Clare Bevan

I'd only left it for two minutes while I built a scale model

of Buckingham Palace out of cheese triangles, when a whole

herd of angry wildebeest stampeded through our back garden,

battered down the kitchen door, and before they vanished

into the shimmering sunset, they trampled my book under

their mighty, thundering hooves, and the dog ate it.

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by Pan Macmillan .

Andrew Fusek Peters is Britain's tallest poet. He travels the country visiting schools with his weird and wonderful poems, plays and digeridu and juggles a bit. Andrew lives in an old chapel in Shropshire with his wife and young daughter. Axel Scheffler has had books published in over a dozen countries. Born in Hamburg, he now lives in London. Nick Toczek is a performance poet, storyteller, magician, puppeteer and comedian. He has been a professional performer and writer for 30 years during which time he has written over 2 dozen books and performed over 20, 000 times.