Book description
In Transylvania Waters Mordonna and Nerlin should be King and Queen.
But there are some seriously nasty characters standing in their way . .
. After years on the run, the Floods are coming home. And just in time
too. Since Nerlin and Mordonna fled Transylvania Waters, things there
have gone from worse to much worse. King Quatorze has bled the country
dry. He's even sold everyone's shoelaces. It's time for a change, time
for life with a lot less cabbage and a lot more chocolate. But first the
Floods have to get rid of the old king . . . 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.
