Book description
What happens when the King goes Doolally? Find out in the latest Floods
adventure. Everyone gets old, even witches and wizards. Their backs get
stiff. Their feet get sore, and their brains go and live far, far away.
Not even Nerlin Flood, the King of Transylvania Waters, is immune to the
curse of old age. The rest of the family have noticed that Nerlin is
slipping into total Doolallyness à Â- he even has an invisible friend
called Geoffrey-Geoffrey, who warns him not to eat broccoli because it
will give him global warming. Will the Old Crones be able to cure him,
or is Nerlin doomed to spend his twilight years talking to the wall,
wearing a crooked jacket* and incompetence pants?* Which is actually a
more accurate description of a straitjacket. Since he started writing
and illustrating children's books in 1990, Colin Thompson has had more
than 65 books published. He has received several awards, including an
Aurealis Award for the novel How to Live Forever, CBCA Picture Book of
the Year for The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley and CBCA
Honour Book and the Family Therapists' Award for The Big Little Book of
Happy Sadness. He has been shortlisted for many other awards, including
the Astrid Lindgren Award - the most prestigious children's literature
prize in the world. Colin lives in Bellingen, Australia. His books with
Random House Australia include How to Live Forever, numerous picture
books, The Floods series, The Dragons series, The Big Little Book of
Happy Sadness, Free to a Good Home and Barry.
