Precious Bodily Fluids: 1961. A boy. A pub. And the great fluoride debate

Charles is a country boy at heart...he brilliantly and hilariously captures the humour, tragedy and poignancy of what it was like to be a young boy growing up in rural Australia. It's an honest, vibrant account of an 11-year-old enjoying the final freedoms of his boyhood within the confines of a small Aussie country town in the early '60s. - Woman's Day

There really is one book you should read to make you laugh, chuckle and think about what it was really like to grow up surrounded by Catholicism. Yes, Charles Waterstreet has penned the tome for you! Most nights I'd get home and couldn't put it down before smiling all the way to noddyland. - Sunday Telegraph

Charles Waterstreet . . . has tackled something very difficult-writing a childhood memoir from the perspective of a child but using the wisdom of hindsight and a more or less hybrid child/adult vocabulary-and brought it off...Waterstreet achieves a nice balance and blend of the comic and the sociological which makes the book readable and likeable...a well-written, well-organised and highly amusing book. - Peter Corris

Delightful...crammed with extraordinary characters, familiar incidents, comedy, tragedy and a quintessential larrikinism - Sunday Life