The fifth adventure for Minton, the Salamander who loves building things that move. Minton has built himself a boat, an airplane, a car, a truck but now he wants to go home so he makes a submarine to take him and his friend Turtle back to their island. Turtle is afraid of deep-sea monsters and although they escape a shark, they surface near the North Pole. How will they get home from there? Includes instructions to build Minton's submarine out of household junk.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2001 by Allen & Unwin .

Anna Fienberg has more than 20 children's books to her credit. Barbara Fienberg is the coauthor of the Tashi series. Kim Gamble is a book illustrator. Anna Fienberg has written many well-loved and award-winning picture books, short stories and junior novels.