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TRADE EDITION: 'What I need,' said Pearl as she started to slide off the roof, 'is a grandmother.' Where do you get a top gran at short notice? It's not easy, but Pearl's got Winston to help her, and you can do anything when your best friend is the world's brainiest guinea pig. T...hen Pearl meets Gran and the surprises begin. A moving and unforgettable story from Australia's funniest children's author.
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| ISBN |
9781740943604 |
| Published NZ |
1 Dec 2003 |
| Publisher |
Bolinda Publishing |
| Format |
Audio CD/Audio, Unabridged edition |
| Alternate Format(s) |
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| Availability |
3 In stock at publisher; delivery usually 20-30 working days due to covid19 delays
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| Interest Age |
7-11 years |
| Reading Age |
7-11 years |
| NBS Text |
Young Adult Fiction |
| ONIX Text |
Children/juvenile |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
| Awards |
Winner of Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALA) Older Readers 1997
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| NZ Review |
Achingly funny, you will find yourself laughing one minute, and crying buckets the next! -- Amazon While she's up on the roof retrieving her mother's bra from the chimney, Pearl hopes she won't fall on her pet guinea pig and best friend, Winston. The intrepid Pearl decides that if she had a grandma, she wouldn't be in this situation. However, her warm, fuzzy ideal of a grandma gets a jolt when the real thing comes along. Young listeners will love this wacky, tender, wittily plotted story with serious underpinnings by the award-winning Morris Gleitzman. Mary-Anne Fahey narrates with the cheeky audacity of a young girl on a mission. When Winston develops kidney problems, Fahey is believable as the desperate little girl aching with worries. Her bright, energetic performance makes Pearl as real as any child whose adults don't understand, or appear to be indifferent to, her problems. -- AudioFile Magazine |
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Author's Bio
Morris Gleitzman grew up in England and came to Australia when he was 16. He was a frozen-chicken thawer, sugar-mill rolling-stock unhooker, fashion-industry trainee, student, department-store Santa, TV producer, newspaper columnist and screenwriter. Then he had a wonderful experience. He wrote a novel for young people. Now, after 42 books, he's an internationally bestselling children's author. In 2018 and 2019 he was the Australian Children's Laureate. Mary-Anne Fahey is one of Australia's best-known comedy writers and performers. She is well known to Australian TV audiences for her creation of the Kylie Mole character and her starring role in The Comedy Company. She has also appeared in films and on the stage, recently in her one-woman adaptation of Morris Gleitzman's Water Wings.
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