Toad Rage
Toad Book 1 from former Australian Children's Laureate Morris Gleitzman
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Publisher Description
‘Hilarious, but with a lot of heart’ Better Reading
Winner - Dymock's Children's Choice Awards 2000
Winner - YABBA Children's Choice Awards 2000
Shortlisted - Qld Premier's Literary Award 2000
The epic story of one slightly squashed cane toad's hunt for the truth. And the fun and games that result.
Limpy's family reckons humans don't hate cane toads, but Limpy knows otherwise. He's spotted the signs: the cross looks, the unkind comments, the way they squash cane toads with their cars.
Desperate to save his species from ending up as pancakes, Limpy must somehow make humans see how fabulous cane toads really are. Risking everything, he sets off on a wart-tinglingly dangerous and daring journey to ... the Olympics?
Filled with humour and heart, Toad Rage is a story about acceptance, determination and perseverance in the face of adversity.
Read the whole Toad series today!
Toad Rage
Toad Heaven
Toad Away
Toad Surprise
Toad Delight
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PRAISE FOR MORRIS GLEITZMAN
‘Readers can't get enough of him.’ The Independent
‘A brilliantly funny writer’ Sunday Telegraph
‘A virtuoso demonstration of how you can make comedy out of the most unlikely subject’ Sunday Times
‘He is one of the finest examples of a writer who can make humour stem from the things that really matter in life.’ The Guardian
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Never trust a human." Those are the last words of cane toad Limpy's Uncle Preston, "the ones he'd said just before he was flattened by a funeral procession," in Australian writer Gleitzman's (Two Weeks with the Queen) hilarious dark comedy. In fact Limpy has watched countless relatives get run over by highway traffic and, out of deference, rolls up their dried bodies, takes them home and stockpiles them ("Well, don't just leave him lying around in your room," says Limpy's Mum on one such occasion. "That room's a pigsty. I'm tired of tidying up dead relatives in there"). Not content to accept his parents' explanations for his family's advanced mortality rate (all the really nutritious flies hang out near the highway), Limpy is convinced that humans hate cane toads, and he sets off on a farflung journey to find a human being and determine the cause of their enmity. Despite his dearly departed uncle's admonition, Limpy discovers that humans might not all be so bad, as he falls in with a female athlete who, he believes, will help him apply to become an Olympic Games mascot. While the book was originally published for the Sydney Olympics in 2000, and some of the humor has to do with native Aussie animals' hurt feelings at being rejected as mascots, most of the comedy should travel well. Saucy fun from start to finish. Ages 8-12.
