Book description
The Floods family are on the run from an angry father with a talent for
exploding, some very nasty but rather bumbling spies and the prospect of
a life down the toilet The Floods family are on the run! Travel back
in time to faraway Transylvania Waters and find out what happened when a
lowly drain cleaner called Nerlin Flood fell in love with the royal
princess Mordonna. Can the two escape from an explosively angry King
Quatorze, the nastiest spies in the land, and the prospect of life down
the toilet? Why does their eldest child, Valla, drink blood? Was
Satanella really turned into a dog because of an accident with a prawn
and a faulty wand? This is your chance to find out how all the Floods
children came to be born - or created. 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.
