Samantha Cardigan and the Ghastly Twirling Sickness

by David Roberts (Illustrator), David Sutherland (Author), David Sutherland (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.40

  When a strange twirling sickness grips the kingdom of Nedakh, bakers make no bread, farmers grow no rice and goats go unmilked. Its Emperor decides he needs help - time to call for International Adventurers, Samantha Cardigan and Rabbit to untangle the mystery. Once they arrive, the pair soon realise that something quiet queer is going on. Why does Doctor Inchbutt keep snatching hair from peoples' heads and who is the sinister hooded man with the blind donkey at the Lime Tree Inn? Samantha Cardigan and Rabbit investigate further and spy on a meeting at the old quarry. But they soon get discovered and Samantha is put under the ghastly twirling spell by Guul, the wicked magician. Good job Rabbit has remembered to bring his inflatable travelling vacuum cleaner. Springing into action, he sucks Guul up into the machine. The ghastly curse is lifted and the kingdom returns to normal. Guul and Doctor Inchbutt are imprisoned and the heroes of the day, Samantha Cardigan and Rabbit, are rewarded with a medal and a bunch of carrots.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.25

  An enchanting tale by Pippa Goodhart for Egmont's red banana series.

  Granda is different from other folk - he talks to the hills. One day, he tells his granddaughter, Lily, an old story about Dragon Boy - a human child who was raised by a dragon mother.

  The young lad lived happily with his family in the Dragon Hills. He looked like a dragon in his costume of leaves, and he learnt to sing dragon songs. But he couldn't make fire like his dragon friends and somehow, he still felt as if he was the odd one out.

  Then one day, Dragon Boy is reunited with his real mother and goes to live with his human family, but he still misses his dragon past and he still talks to them when he can. Just like Granda in fact, thinks Lily!

  Red bananas are chapter books for newly fluent readers, suitable for NC Level 3 readers. They are carefully designed illustrated books for both entertainment and education, supporting children's understanding of how to read longer books. Red bananas introduce similes and wordplay to encourage an understanding of more literary concepts.