In Tazzie Wallaroo & The Perfect Match, famed adventurer, Tasman Wallaroo (known as Tazzie), and her team of 28 shaggy-haired Siberian Cha-Wow-Wows depart the Point of No Return to capture the Abominable Snowman. Will Tazzie and her doggies overcome blizzards and sub-zero weather? Will they survive falling into a crevasse? And thousands of ice mites? And frenzied ice mice? What happens when Tazzie uncovers an igloo? Is this the home of the Abominable Snowman? And how and why is love somehow on the cards? T hen, in Kylie ORiley & The Watta-Wopping Volcano, the worlds most famous volcanologist Kylie ORiley is asked by Hilda to recover her husband, Rudy, who has fallen into WattaWopping Volcano. There she finds a dragon. Luckily, she can speak Dragonese and persuades it to fly her to Cracka-Cracka Boom-Boom, home of the Gidgee Guy tribe. However, the chiefs son, Tumby, fancies Kylie for dinner. Will she escape his cooking pot? Does she save Hildas missing husband? And her precious ring and picnic basket? What antique gift does she receive? To find out the answers to these and other enthralling questions, read these great stories from Book 1 of the Wild & Wacky Adventurers Series!
Dianne (Di) Bates is a full-time freelance writer. Di has worked as a newspaper and magazine editor and manuscript assessor. She is a recipient of The Lady Cutler Award for distinguished services to childrens Literature.
Bill Condon has written more than one hundred books for children and young adults, as well as numerous plays and poems. His titles have been shortlisted four times in the Childrens Book Council of Australia Awards, and in 2010 he won the Prime Ministers Award for young adult literature. He lives on the south coast of NSW with his wife, Di.
Cherie Dignam has always loved drawing
and nature, and all animals, especially CATs. An aspiring picture book illustrator currently working on her own projects, she hopes to self publish this in the near future. When I am not working to keep my pet cat, Boris supplied with endless tins of tuna, I create from my home a short walk from the beach in sunny Perth, Western Australia. I use a variety of mediums, including coloured pencils and watercolour, but I am at my happiest with a good old-fashioned dip pen and ink. I love wonky lines and I dont really like drawing cars or anything too technical. My desk is usually covered in paper, ink splotches, water, empty tea cups, pencil shavings and biscuit crumbs.