Book description
The second book in Colin Thompson s brilliantly funny series about a
family of witches and wizards who might be living in your town. Look
through the cobwebbed, murky arched window in deepest Patagonia, and
this is what you might see... Every day five of the Flood children
travel halfway round the world to Quicklime College, the ultimate school
for witches and wizards. There's no time for silly games flying around
on broomsticks. Sports day is coming up, and before you even wonder how
four-legged Satanella copes with the three-legged race, here's a secret
for you. Orkward Warlock, the vilest child in the school, and his
sidekick, The Toad, hate the big happy Floods family. And they're
plotting to kill the Floods - on sports day. 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.
