The World's Greatest Underachiever and the Killer Chilli

by Henry Winkler

  What’s it like working as a team to write the World’s Greatest Underachiever books?

  We have the most wonderful time working together. Lin sits at the computer, and I walk in a circle in front of her desk. If I start talking like the characters, Lin kindly types it in because I don’t use a computer. Or, she’ll tell me to stop for a minute because she’s got a great idea and her fingers fly across the keyboard. Sometimes, I’ll write my chapters in long hand and Lin will transcribe them and correct my spelling. When the book is done, we both go over it to see if we’ve left anything out, or perhaps we’ll find a better joke for one of the characters or better action in a scene. When it’s completely done, we send it to our editor, and she sends back her notes that we then incorporate.

  The World’s Greatest Underachiever series

  The World’s Greatest Underachiever

  Takes on the Universe

  (Bind-up of The World’s Greatest Underachiever and the Crazy Classroom Cascade

  and The World’s Greatest Underachiever and the Crunchy Pickle Disaster)

  The World’s Greatest Underachiever

  and the Crazy Classroom Cascade

  The World’s Greatest Underachiever

  and the Crunchy Pickle Disaster

  The World’s Greatest Underachiever

  and the Mutant Moth

  The World’s Greatest Underachiever

  and the Lucky Monkey Socks

  The World’s Greatest Underachiever

  and the Soggy School Trip

  The World’s Greatest Underachiever

  and the Killer Chilli

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the authors’ imagination or, if real, used fictitiously. All statements, activities, stunts, descriptions, information and material of any kind contained herein are included for entertainment purposes only and should not be relied on for accuracy or replicated as they may result in injury.

  First published in Great Britain as

  Hank Zipzer the World’s Greatest Underachiever: Holy Enchilada! (2008) by Walker Books Ltd, 87 Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5HJ

  First published in the United States as

  Hank Zipzer #06: Holy Enchilada! (2004)

  by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver. Published by arrangement with Grosset & Dunlap™, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

  All rights reserved.

  This edition published 2013

  Text © 2003, 2013 Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver Productions, Inc.

  Cover illustration and design, and interior illustrations © 2013 Nigel Baines

  The right of Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, taping and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.

  British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data:

  a catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

  ISBN 978-1-4063-3277-3 (ePub)

  www.walker.co.uk