Comedy Selections from the Becky Bexley Books

By Diana Holbourn

The Becky Bexley books are a mixture of humour and storylines that contain useful information. Becky Bexley is a child genius who surprises people with her genius abilities even from birth, and the books about her describe episodes from her childhood and teenage years.

 

The first one's pure comedy, a humorous children's book called The Early Life of Becky Bexley the Child Genius.

 

The rest are in a young adult fiction series. Those books are a mixture of humorous scenes and storylines where information related to mental health and well-being gets passed on to others, including authority figures, often by Becky. She and others pass on advice and facts that are useful to know, about such problems as depression, phobias, scams, and much more.

 

Becky goes to university before she's even a teenager, and yet even at school, she isn't shy about giving her headmaster advice about improving the school's anti-bullying strategy, giving some of her teachers advice about giving up smoking, and even advising the American president, after in an unlikely turn of events, she gets invited to meet him!

 

Not long after she goes to university, she advises one of her tutors about his marriage problems. Perhaps some would say she doesn't know her place. But her advice is based on genuine therapy techniques from psychology books, which she's fond of reading.

 

All the books contain humour, some more than others. Becky enjoys quirky banter with friends. She gets up to mischief in the children's book and briefly in one of the others, and she even gets to do stand-up comedy in front of university students. She also helps to arrange humorous events for charity and takes part in them.

 

This book of comedy contains a couple of humorous excerpts from the children's book and each of the first four books in the young adult fiction series, Becky Bexley the Child Genius.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Diana Holbourn
• Release date: Nov 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9781738457809

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Comedy Selections from the Becky Bexley BooksTitle Page

Comedy Selections from the Becky Bexley Books

Copyright © 2023 by Diana Holbourn

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without written permission of the copyright owner except for the use of quotations in a book review. For more information, please contact the author via www.DianaHolbourn.com

Cover design, book design and formatting by Gareth Southwell (art.garethsouthwell.com)

First digital edition November 2023

ISBN (ebook): 978-1-7384578-0-9

First published 2023 by Windy Seaside Publishing

CONTENTS

Introduction

The Early Life of Becky Bexley the Child Genius

Young adult fiction series, Becky Bexley the Child Genius

Book One: Trying to Make the World a Better Place

Book Two: Good and Bad Times at University

Book Three: Student Fun and a Mammoth Discussion

Book Four: Comedy, Alcohol, Trauma and Games

Book Reviews

INTRODUCTION

The humorous passages in this book come from The Early Life of Becky Bexley the Child Genius, a children’s comedy book, and Becky Bexley the Child Genius, a young adult fiction series of four books, some with more humour in them than others.

THE EARLY LIFE OF BECKY BEXLEY THE CHILD GENIUS

FROM CHAPTER ONE

When Becky Was Born

Becky’s mum talks so much that Becky had already learned to talk quite well by the time she was born, which was less than a year before the start of this millennium. She must have taught herself in the womb. We’re guessing she managed it because of the amount her mum talks, but we can’t be entirely sure. There might have been a bit more to it. But mere seconds after she came out of her mother, she said, That journey was the worst experience of my life! Now what’s this scary place I’ve been rudely pushed out into?

Becky’s mum was shocked to hear her talk, and so were the nurses and doctors. It was all the more remarkable because she’d arrived three weeks before she was due. Every one of them thought they must be going mad. But mother-love must have been stronger than the shock, because Becky’s mum picked her up and gave her a cuddle. Becky said, That’s better. But what’s this ‘milk’ stuff I’ve heard you raving about, saying you’ll give me some? Let’s try it.

Her mum couldn’t believe