This book
written by a husband-and-wife team features two adventurous stories in one…
TAZZIE
WALLAROO & THE PERFECT MATCH
The wildest
and toughest adventurers in this world – and the next – have failed to find and
capture the Abominable Snowman. Famed adventurer, Tasman Wallaroo (known as
Tazzie) enters the scene, saying she will ‘crush that cruel creep to crumbs!’
Training hard until she is as trim and taut as Superwoman after a super
make-over, she and her team of 28 shaggy-haired Siberian Cha-Wow-Wows depart
the Point of No Return.
Will Tazzie
and her doggies overcome blizzards and sub-zero weather? Will they survive
falling into a crevasse? And thousands of ice mites? And frenzied ice mice?
Will they overcome frostbite? And starvation? What happens when Tazzie uncovers
an igloo? Is this the home of the Abominable Snowman? And how and why is love
somehow on the cards?
KYLIE
O’RILEY AND THE WATTA-WOPPING VOLCANO
The world’s
most famous volcanologist Kylie O’Riley is asked by Hilda to recover her
husband, Rudy, who has fallen into an active volcano, along with her precious
ring and picnic basket. Kylie, who is fearless, brave, and extremely gifted,
promises to recover Hilda’s treasures. Off she heads to where the mighty
Watta-Wopping Volcano is located. There she finds a dragon. Luckily, she can
speak Dragonese and is able to persuade it to fly her to Cracka-Cracka
Boom-Boom, home of the Gidgee Guy tribe. However, the chief’s son, Tumby,
fancies Kylie for dinner.
Will she
escape his cooking pot? What about the dangerous exploding Boom-Boom HaHa
volcano? Does she find and recover Hilda’s missing husband? What about the
precious ring and picnic basket? What antique gift does she receive?
ABOUT THE
AUTHORS
Bill Condon
has written more than one hundred books for children and young adults, as well
as numerous plays and poems. His titles have been shortlisted four times in the
Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards, and in 2010 he won the Prime
Minister’s Award for young adult literature. He lives on the south coast of NSW
with his wife, Di.
Author of
130+ books, mostly for young people, Australian Dianne (Di) Bates is a
full-time freelance writer. Di has worked as a newspaper and magazine editor
and manuscript assessor. She is a recipient of The Lady Cutler Award for
distinguished services to children’s Literature.
Bill and Di
have written other stories in the Explorers’ series, including Captain Offensnotty
and the Giddi Giddi Zombies, Major Hootensnooten and the Year 2500, Oscar
Bubblesquirt and the Pharoah’s Curse, and several others.
ABOUT THE
ILLUSTRATOR
Cherie Dignam has
always loved drawing… and nature, and all animals, especially CATs. An aspiring
picture book illustrator currently working on her own projects, she hopes to
self-publish this soon. “When I am not working to keep my pet cat, Boris
supplied with endless tins of tuna, I create from my home a short walk from the
beach in sunny Perth, Western Australia.” I use a variety of mediums, including
coloured pencils and watercolour, but I am at my happiest with a good
old-fashioned dip pen and ink. I love wonky lines and I don’t really like
drawing cars or anything too technical. My desk is usually covered in paper,
ink splotches, water, empty teacups, pencil shavings and biscuit crumbs.
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