I put my face close to the cocky's and gave it a look.

Don't be scared, you poor little thing, the look said. I want to help you.

'Rack off,' said the cocky.

The last thing Rowena wants in her life right now is a crazy cockatoo.

She's got enough problems of her own.

For a start, she's just splattered twoo hundred grown-ups with jelly and custard.

But a crook-tempered cockatoo, Ro discovers, can be just the friend she needs.

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Pan Macmillan .

Paul Jennings was the first author to sell a million books in Australia. Morris Gleitzman is one of Australia's and now the world's best-known and loved children's authors who tackles tough subjects in a funny and offbeat way.