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Drop Dead, Mad Dog Fred


No. of pages 144

Published: 2006

Great for age 7-10 years

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What do you do when your dad has gone out to rob a bank and you know he'll be caught?If you're Sam Tucker, you saddle up your trusty kangaroo and ride out after him.The trouble is, Fred Tucker isn't too bright. He thinks a stagecoach is a person who teaches acting. He thinks highway robbery is when you steal a road. Can Sam pull her dad out of trouble, and rescue the family wombat farm at the same time? Warning!This story contains two giant desert pythons, two crocdorpions and a talking dingo.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published in 2006 by Allen & Unwin .

Jonathon Harlen is the author of Brain Scam and The Cockroach War .

 

Harlen continues the fantasy/reality dichotomy, combining the commonplace with the bizarre, that he mined so effectively with the hugely popular The Cockroach War', Brain Scamand Circus Berzerkus. Odd, amoral characters in an absurd Aussie Alice-in-Wonderland landscape take Drop Dead, Mad Dog Fredinto surreal territory, combining humour and fantasy with whimsy ' Magpies Vol 18 No 5 Nov 2003.