My Bum's on THE RUN! – fit, fast and funny new book in the Bum series publishes internationally

My Bum's on THE RUN!                       

Dawn McMillan
Illustrated by Ross Kinnaird

 New book in the laugh-out-loud ‘Bum Series’ of picture  

 books by NZ author and illustrator in international release 

Everyone would like to run faster, right? But some things just hold us back — like a bum that won’t keep pace

In this newest book in the global bestselling New Bum series the hero of I Need a New Bum! , I’ve Broken my Bum!  and My Bum is SO NOISY!  finds a range of crack-up solutions to his slow-bum problem, in a new adventure for 2023. 

The options go from attaching a kite and balloons or eating cabbage and peas for some wind power. But then he and his cousin figure out they need bum-strengthening exercises — some squats, kicks, steps and lunges.

 

And while he’s working out, a whole lot of other folk join him. After some training he’s off — on a cross-country race near home.

Think our red pants boy is set up to win? There’ll be a twist at the end of this tale once his dog gets involved.

 

Fittingly for a book that features running in different locales around the world, My Bum's on THE RUN!  will publish in March 2023 simultaneously in New Zealand and Australia (Oratia), the US and Canada (Dover) and the UK and Ireland (Scholastic UK). 

Get ready for the fastest bum book yet!

The authors

Dawn McMillan is the much-loved author of numerous children’s books including the five previous books in the New Bum! series, Doctor Grundy’s Undies and the latest in her nature series, There’s a Moa in the Moonlight. She lives in Waiomu, north of Thames.

Ross Kinnaird is an illustrator and designer whose books have been published around the world, many of them in collaboration with Dawn. He lives close to the water on Auckland’s North Shore.

Publication Date: 2 March 2023 |  ISBN: 978-1-99-004241-6 |  RRP $19.99

Paperback, 230 x 215 mm portrait, 32 pages, colour