In the beginning there was me and Mum and Dad and the twins. And talk about happy families, we were bountiful. But it came to pass that I started doing sins. And lo, that's when all our problems began...
Oliver's parents own a bank. This makes them very rich, very important and very busy. Oliver, on the other hand, is terrible at maths and aspires to nothing more than owning the puppy that he frequently visits at his local pet shop.
When a mysterious woman threatens to harm the puppy if Oliver can't remake her fortune (unfortunately, Oliver's parents seem to have misplaced her investment. Something to do with some stuff on the news) Oliver hatches a plan which will take him further than he ever imagined...
« Un jour, je me suis évadé d'un orphelinat pour retrouver papa et maman. Un jour, j'ai sauvé une petite fille qui s'appelait Zelda d'une maison en feu. Un jour, je vivais dans une cave avec sept autres enfants, alors que je n'aurais pas dû. Un jour, j'ai fait rire un nazi avec une rage de dents. Un jour, j'ai fait mon premier voyage en train, mais je ne dirais pas que c'était formidable. Mon nom est Félix. Ceci est mon histoire. »
In the hysterically funny sequel to Toad Rage, Limpy is on a quest to find toad heaven. A place where cane toads won’t be blown up with bike pumps or bashed over the head with folding chairs. Limpy’s determined to find this place if it takes him the rest of his life, but his plans are waylaid when he’s kidnapped by some sinisterlooking humans and tossed into a bucket. Will Limpy be able to save cane toads? Will he be able to find toad heaven? First he has to get out of the bucket...From the Hardcover edition.
Warm, funny and quirky, Doubting Thomas is the brilliant new novel about best friends, surprising adventures and itchy nipples, from award-winning author Morris Gleitzman. Thomas has very itchy nipples. It's really embarrasing. It's the most embarrassing secret he's ever had. So the question is - why are his nipples so itchyoe Is it a rare and special gift or the worst thing to EVER happen to a boyoe Only one thing is certain. Thomas and his best friends are in for an adventure that will take them from the sunshine of Australia to the streets of Paris. 'Morris Gleitzman has a rare gift for writing very funny stories and wrapping very serious stories inside them' - Guardian 'A brilliantly funny writer' - Sunday Telegraph 'Readers can't get enough of him' - Independent 'A virtuoso demonstration of how you can make comedy out of the most unlikely subject' - Sunday Times
Morris Gleitzman grew up in England and went to live in Australia when he was sixteen. He worked as a frozen-chicken thawer, sugar-mill rolling-stock unhooker, fashion-industry trainee, department-store Santa, TV producer, newspaper columnist and screenwriter, until he began writing young fiction. His many books include Boy Overboard, Toad Rage, Bumface, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal, and Two Weeks with the Queen, winner of the Children's Book Award.
L'histoire semble-t-il banale d'Oliver, dix ans, dont le rêve est d'avoir un chien. Mais voilà, la vie d'Oliver est loin d'être banale : ses parents, propriétaires d'une grande banque, sont immensément riches, et ne veulent pas d'un cabot sur leurs tapis d'orient. Alors lorsque son ancienne gouvernante kidnappe et menace d'exécuter le chien de ses rêves s'il ne récupère pas 11 000 dollars dans la semaine - la somme qu'elle aurait perdue sur les mauvais conseils de ses parents -, Oliver décide de relever le défi et de mettre en pratique ses modestes connaissances financières pour réparer cette injustice. Malheureusement, les choses deviennent bientôt incontrôlables... S'ensuit une aventure loufoque et tendre où se croiseront seize dromadaires, un trader de cour de récréation très mauvais en mathématiques, et des requins... de la finance.
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. Limpy is desperate to save his species from ending up as pancakes. Somehow he must make humans see how fabulous cane toads really are. Risking everything, he sets off on a warttinglingly dangerous and daring journey to ... the Olympics?This is the epic story of a slightly squashed young cane toad’s quest for the truth.From the Hardcover edition.
