Book description
Set in the Viking world of long boats, looting and grand adventure, The
Goose Pimple Bay Sagas relate the hilarious tales of a noble family with
a difference. In the final book of the quartet, a message reaches Goose
Pimple Bay that Chief Thunderstruck is in trouble. He's been trapped in
a cave on an ice flow by a fierce polar bear, who has a nasty glint in
his eye when he looks at Chief Thunderstruck's bearskin coat. Together
Whiff Erik, Spike Carbuncle and Fangtrude sail off to the rescue. But
it's up to Fangtrude, being part wolverine, to save the day. Karen's
first novel for older readers, Raspberries on the Yangtze was
short-listed for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. The first in her
series for younger readers, The Crunchbone Castle Chronicles, published
by A&C Black, was selected for the Summer Reading Challenge in 2006.
