Billy Cart Derby

Join the Grade 2s on a rip-roaring billy cart race around Happy Valley Primary School and see if they can whip the pants of the Grade 3 skateboard day fundraiser! Join Jaz, TJ and Ben as they burn rubber, mow down the learning garden veggie patch and make lemonade in this hilarious race to the finish line. Who wins and what do they do with the money raised?

Chapter book suit Grade 1 – 3



About the Author:

Donna Smith is an award winning children’s author who lives in Melbourne with her husband and their three children. Donna has had many poems and short stories published in anthologies and journals. Donna’s latest releases include Delightfully Haiku; a beautiful collection of traditional -English written Japanese poetry, released in 2010, A Shadow at Cape Naturaliste; an historical fiction set at Western Australia’s breathtaking Cape Naturaliste lighthouse. This ghostly tale intertwines fact and fiction, breathing to life the story of Harry’s lighthouse, released 2011. Billy Cart Derby is an action packed, rip-roaring race around Happy Valley Primary school. An exciting and comical story for readers aged 6-10 years.

Donna has an extensive list of published academic titles and textbooks for the Adult Education sector. Donna also enjoys teaching classes in Poetry and The History of Writing.