Thanks to Muffy-Boo for being a substitute sibling as well as my luck-dragon.
Thanks to special friends: Nathaniel Hiscock, Miffy Thewlis, Julian Lynch and Emma Bates for accepting me ‘warts and all’.
Lastly, thanks must go to all the young readers I have met for their support and enthusiasm. They have provided me with the incentive to keep writing.
About The Author
Alexandra EmilyAdornetto lives in Melbourne and is an only child. She has loved stories for as long as she can remember. Her family includes a three-legged cat called Rosie-Mittens, and a spaniel, Muffy-Boo, who features in this very book!
The Shadow Thief, the first book in The Strangest Adventures series, was written when she was thirteen years old and inspired by J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan.
Alexandra is currently completing Year I I at school where she is focusing on subjects such as Literature, History and Religion and Society. She is also a keen debater and performer. Whatever career Alexandra pursues in the future, she hopes to continue writing books for children.
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Praise for The Shadow Thief
‘Clearly [Adornetto] is already an Australian
literary phenomenon…to read The Shadow
Thief is to be thrust into a fast-moving plot full
of menace and thrills, amply seeded with a
magnificently precocious vocabulary.’
The Courier Mail
‘…an impressive debut…a wonderful fantasy
story, full of adventure and scary,
dark shadows.’
The Australian Women’s Weekly
‘…a fantastic achievement…’
The Sunday Age
‘…a comic fantasy full of magic.’
The Sydney Morning Herald
‘You will be hooked by Alex’s sparkling dialogue and witty perceptive insights…’
The Toowoomba Chronicle
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Angus & Robertson
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First published in Australia in 2008
This edition published in 2010
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Copyright © Alexandra Adornetto 2008
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Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced, copies scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Author: Adornetto, Alexandra
Title:The lampo circus / author, Alexandra Adornetto.
Publisher: Pymble, N.S.W.: Harper Collins, 2008.
ISBN 978 0 7322 8619 4 (hbk.)
ISBN 978 0 7304 0091 2 (Epub)
Series: Adornetto, Alexandra. Strangest adventures.
Dewey Number:A823.4
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