Drop Dead, Mad Dog Fred
Author(s): Jonathan Harlen
A wacky and wonderful adventure for 8- to 12-year-olds, about a lovable but not very bright wombat farmer, his resourceful daughter Sam and their quest to save the family farm from ruin and restore Sam's brother Billy to health.
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.
Product Information
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.
General Fields
- :
- : Allen & Unwin
- : Allen & Unwin
- : 0.15
- : 01 March 2005
- : 196mm X 132mm X 11mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jonathan Harlen
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : A823.3
- : From 8 To 12
- : 144
