by Duncan Ball
And when he’s drinking from a cup
Luke lets his drool go running up
Across his lip, just past his nose,
Into his eye this liquid goes
He cries: ‘Oh goody look at me!
I can wash my eyes with Luke-warm tea!’
CLIMATE
Acknowledgements
The author would like to thank all of those wonderful Selby fans who have written to him over the years. And a very special thanks to one of them, Brendan Watts, who suggested that Dr Trifle invent a machine to teach the non-swimming Selby how to swim. Dr Trifle doesn’t usually take advice from anyone but when he heard this he thought: ‘Why not?’ For the results see the story called ‘The Paddle-Pup’.
About the Author
Duncan Ball is an Australian author and scriptwriter, best known for his popular books for children. Among his most-loved works are the Selby books of stories plus the collections Selby’s Selection, Selby’s Joke Book and Selby’s Sidesplitting Joke Book. Some of these books have also been published in New Zealand, Germany, Japan and the USA, and have won countless awards, most of which were voted by the children themselves.
Among Duncan’s other books are the Emily Eyefinger series about the adventures of a girl who was born with an eye on the end of her finger, and the comedy novels Piggott Place and Piggotts in Peril, about the frustrations of twelve-year-old Bert Piggott forever struggling to get his family of ratbags and dreamers out of the trouble they are constantly getting themselves into.
Duncan lives in Sydney with his wife, Jill, and their cat, Jasper. Jasper often keeps Duncan company while he’s writing and has been known to help by walking on the keyboard. Once, returning to his work, Duncan found the following word had mysteriously appeared on screen: ikantawq .........
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Copyright
Angus & Robertson
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First published in Australia in 1998
This edition published in 2011
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Text copyright © Duncan Ball 1998
Illustration copyright © Allan Stomann 1998
The right of Duncan Ball and Allan Stomann to be identified as the moral rights author and illustrator of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000 (Cth).
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Ball, Duncan, 1941– .
Selby snowbound / Duncan Ball.
ISBN: 978-0-2072-0019-9 (pbk.)
ISBN: 978-0-7304-9521-5 (ePub)
1. Dogs — Juvenile fiction. I. Stomann, Allan. II. Title.
A823.3
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