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MR TRIPP SMELLS A RAT: WALKER STORIES
Illustrated by Ruth Paul
Join Mr Tripp and Room Five for three great stories about an escaped rat, a surprise birthday party and an itchy insect invasion.
Room Five s teacher, Mr Tripp, is good at telling jokes, loves riddles and is great at using his nose. When a student s pet rat escapes from its cage, it s up to Mr Tripp to be brave, and to smell it out! Three fun and engaging stories which will have early readers eagerly turning the page for more adventures.
- A charming early reader with valuable themes such as school, pets, health and hygiene, and jokes and riddles
- Written by award-winning New Zealand author Sandy Mckay with illustrations by award-winning New Zealand illustrator Ruth Paul
- A second Walker Stories title featuring Mr Tripp, Mr Tripp Goes for a Skate will be published later in 2011
About the author
Sandy McKay is a New Zealand born author who began writing stories when her children were little to encourage them to read. Her first novel Recycled (Longacre Press) won the New Zealand Post Children s Book Award for Junior Fiction in 2002. She has since had three other titles appear on the Notable list for the same award: My Dad, the All Black, 2002; Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, 2005; Losing It, 2008. Mr Tripp Smells a Rat is Sandy s first title with Walker Books. Sandy lives in Dunedin with her husband and her three children.
About the illustrator
Ruth Paul is an award-winning author and illustrator from New Zealand. She draws on everyday life for inspiration and ideas, and is particularly interested in how people get on together. Ruth calls herself and old-fashioned illustrator, working in hands-on media such as acrylic, pastels and pencils, using Photoshop to do last-minute work on scans where required. Her title The King s Bubbles won the Children s Choice Award, New Zealand Post Children s Book Awards, 2008; and the Children s Book Design Award, Book Publishers Association of New Zealand Design Awards, 2008. Ruth lives in the country in a straw-bale house powered by its own remote electricity system, with her husband and two young sons.
ISBN:
9781921529061
Imprint:
WALKER BOOKS AUST
Distributor:
Harper Collins Distribution Services for Australia and New Zealand
Binding:
NS-PB
Release Date:
January 1, 2011
Dimensions:
136 x 186mm, 64pp
Stock Status:
STOCK
Australian RRP:
$11.95
New Zealand RRP:
$13.99
Stock Level:
In Stock