Aimed at the 8+ market, these books have gone off the charts as national best-sellers, resulting in 14 books total and more on the way. Weird Do is an illustrated series starring Weir (1st name), Do (2nd name), a kid with a very unfortunate name. The book became an instant hit and has won numerous awards including Australian Book of the Year.Īnh has since turned his attention to children’s book writing. Anh's story will move and amuse all who read it.Īnh Do is a comedian, artist and also one of the highest selling Australian authors of all time, with total book sales approaching 3 million.Īnh’s first book, The Happiest Refugee, is his enormously popular memoir recounting his perilous childhood journey in a tiny boat from war-torn Vietnam to Australia. Tragedy, humour, heartache and unswerving determination - a big life with big dreams. The Happiest Refugee tells the incredible, uplifting and inspiring life story of one of our favourite personalities. 'Four,' the answer came back, and that was it. Another inspiration was the comedian Anh met when he was about to sign on for a 60-hour a week corporate job. His mother's sacrifice was an inspiration to Anh and he worked hard during his teenage years to help her make ends meet, also managing to graduate high school and then university.

Things got harder when their father left home when Anh was thirteen - they felt his loss very deeply and their mother struggled to support the family on her own. But there was a loving extended family, and always friends and play and something to laugh about for Anh, his brother Khoa and their sister Tram. Life in Australia was hard, an endless succession of back-breaking work, crowded rooms, ruthless landlords and make-do everything. But nothing - not murderous pirates, nor the imminent threat of death by hunger, disease or dehydration as they drifted for days - could quench their desire to make a better life in a country where freedom existed. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia.

The happiest refugee