From award-winning author Joy Cowley comes an engaging story of two unlikely. but inseparable friends. Snake is elegant. calm and a little self-centered . while Lizard is exuberant and irrepressible. Through a series of small (and not so small) adventures. the two friends bicker. compete with each other. go into business and finally. end up as lifelong friends.There is something the matter with your voice.Ga-runch! Ga-runch! said Snake. Ive got a frog in my throat! she whispered. Lizard said. Oh. I know how to fix that. and he gave Snake a mighty slap on her back. The frog shot out of Snake s mouth. It landed in the grass and. quick as a blink. it hopped away.My supper! cried Snake. That was my supper!

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised in the Fiction - Junior category by the New Zealand Children's Book Award. It was recognised in the Children's Book of the Year category by the New Zealand Post Book Award. It also was recognised in the Fiction - Junior category by the Storylines Notable New Zealand Books.

This book is part of a book series called Snake And Lizard .

There are 102 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Gecko Press .

Gavin Bishop is a renowned children's book author and illustrator. His recent book Weaving Earth and Sky won the non-fiction section and the Book of the Year Award of the NZ Post Children's Book Awards 2003. Joy Cowley has written hundreds of stories for children, some of which are published all over the world.