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Winner, Years 3-5 Section, Children Rate Outstanding Writers/illustrators (CROW) Award 1997 Shortlisted, Primary Division, ACT Canberra's Own Outstanding List (COOL) Awards 1998 Shortlisted, Secondary Division, ACT Canberra's Own Outstanding List (COOL) Awards 1998 Honour Book, Book of the Year Younger Readers, Children's Book Council of the Year Awards 1997 From the author of the best-selling, award-winning, mind-boggling adventure 45 & 47 Stella Street and everything that happened comes Don't Pat the Wombat! You've been on school camp, you can't see the film, now read the book! Starring Crom The Bomb, Jonah the Loner, Mary, Petal the little black dog, Miss Antonia Cappelli, Bulldozer the Wombat, Meatloaf the Pumpkin, Sinbad the Horse, Helmut from Germany, The Convicts, The oompa doompa, with special guest appearance by 60,000 leeches!
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Mark, Jonah, Nicko, Azza, and Mitch, a.k.a. the Coconuts, a.k.a. the Convicts, are set to have the time of their lives at pioneer camp. Wattle and daub building, great food, blood-sucking leeches, mud fights, nose-biting horses, half-wild wombats, pirate plays... it's everything they dreamed of. Until the Bomb shows up. Mr. Cromwell is the dourest, cruelest, most unfair teacher at school--and is now a camp chaperon. Crom the Bomb has a particular sour spot in his evil heart for Jonah, and takes every opportunity to make his life miserable. The feud reaches a fever pitch when the Bomb and Jonah inadvertently are paired in a canoe trip, and disappear around the river bend. Can all the Coconuts survive this camping trip uncracked?
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Mark's voice as narrator in this story is flawless. He is, through and through, a sixth-grade boy, complete with delight in the grossest things and hilarity over goofball practical jokes and muddy exploits. William Clarke's kidlike drawings of ant-covered boys and baby wombats combine nicely with Elizabeth Honey's photographs of rowdy campers to create a totally boyish document of a week at camp. (Ages 8 to 12) --Emilie Coulter
Australia's most popular authors, here's a fresh, fast, laugh-out-loud-funny story of boys being boys at school-camp.
"Adults won't find this very tasteful. Sorry, it can't be helped, it's what happened."
Mark Ryder gives us the good, the bad, and the messy in this antic account of his friends' misadventures during a week of school-camp in the Australian outback. Camp is everything the boys expect and more--there are caves to explore, mud fights, bad showers, great food, flashlights, hidden candy, wombats, and leeches. Then disaster strikes: Mr. Cromwell (a.k.a. Crom the Bomb, or simply The Bomb) arrives as a substitute chaperon! "Cromwell at camp is like Darth Vader at your birthday party. How could this happen?" But in the end,
it's what Jonah, Nicko, Wormz, Azza, Mitch, and Mark do to The Bomb that sets off an explosion. . . .
"Adults won't find this very tasteful. Sorry, it can't be helped, it's what happened."
Mark Ryder gives us the good, the bad, and the messy in this antic account of his friends' misadventures during a week of school-camp in the Australian outback. Camp is everything the boys expect and more--there are caves to explore, mud fights, bad showers, great food, flashlights, hidden candy, wombats, and leeches. Then disaster strikes: Mr. Cromwell (a.k.a. Crom the Bomb, or simply The Bomb) arrives as a substitute chaperon! "Cromwell at camp is like Darth Vader at your birthday party. How could this happen?" But in the end,
it's what Jonah, Nicko, Wormz, Azza, Mitch, and Mark do to The Bomb that sets off an explosion. . . .
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- PublisherAllen & Unwin
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1864480947
- ISBN 13 9781864480948
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages142
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Allen & Unwin, New South Wales
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ISBN 10: 1864480947
ISBN 13: 9781864480948
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. William Clarke -- Gig (illustrator). Reprint. signed on the inside of the front cover in red marking pen by the author. The book is otherwise free of annotation and there is no damage to describe. a series of short connected stories illustrated with line drawings, and black-and-white photographs. The book was a "honour book" for the children's book Council of Australia, and has a sticker on the front panel to proclaim that fact. Size: Mid Sized Paperback ( 7¾" - 9¾" tall ). 144 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: William Clarke -- Gig. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children; ISBN: 1864480947. ISBN/EAN: 9781864480948. Inventory No: 0250995. Seller Inventory # 0250995
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