The Super-roo of Mungalongaloo
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Cover Story
Cover illustration and those on these pages from Football Crazy by Colin McNaughton, Piccolo £1.25 0 330 26747 7 (published April 1982). Also available in hardback from Heinemann, 434 94991 4, £4.95. We are grateful to Piccolo for their help in reproducing this illustration in full colour.
The Super-roo of Mungalongaloo
Jeff Hook
Puffin really went down under in February --- three titles from the Antipodes. This one features the intrepid Scottish explorer, Dr A. A. A. McGurk, and his equally intrepid camel, Cathie Khan. Together they set out to find what's in the dead centre of the dreaded Deadstone Desert, where it's so hot in the day the emus lay hard-boiled eggs and so cold at night the frogs wear jumpers to keep them from freezing to death, where the budgerigars are called garbudgeries because they always fly backwards to keep the dust out of their eyes. If that makes you laugh and you like the idea of a giant talking kangaroo and jokes about a sporran --- this is the book for you. Short chapters, biggish print and the cartoons help. There's a sequel next month.