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  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781864714210
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 242

The Adventures Of Nanny Piggins 1




A nanny with trotters!

A nanny with trotters!

Nanny Piggins, the world's most glamorous flying pig, runs away from the circus and goes to live with the Greens as their nanny. The Green children, Derrick, Samantha and Michael, fall in love with her instantly. Who could not fall in love with a Nanny whose only job qualifications are her astonishing ability to be fired out of a cannon and her amazing ability to make chocolate cake, sometimes both at the same time? They then have some wonderful adventures together. I won't spoil them for you by listing them all but they do include catching a serial doorknob thief, hiding a 10-foot dancing bear in the basement and being lost at sea en route to China.
If you don't believe us, listen to the experts:
'No one knows more about firing cannons than Nanny Piggins. We could have used a pig like her in the last war.' MAJOR GENERAL WINTERBOTTOM, ROYAL ARTILLERY REGIMENT

'Reading this book made me give up eating bacon sandwiches.' JANET MURRAY, PIG FARMER

'I used to want to be a brain surgeon but Nanny Piggins taught me there are much more important jobs in life.' HANS THE BAKER

'Nanny Piggins is the love of my life. If I could read this book without sobbing over every page, I would.' SCHOOL DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT FINKLESTICK

  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781864714210
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 242

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About the author

R.A. Spratt

R.A. Spratt was born in the UK and lived in Dursley, Gloucestershire – a town immortalised by Harry Potter’s deeply unpleasant relatives – until she was two years old. Then, like many ambitious English people cursed with regional accents so strong no other British person can take them seriously, her family moved to Australia.

The tedium of growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney was fertiliser to the growth of R.A.’s imagination. The only thing for a kid to do was get on a bicycle and go to the library, so R.A. Spratt did just that. Once there, she read everything, devouring the books of Arthur Ransome, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, Robin Klein and Judy Blume, and audiotapes of Shakespeare productions and Sherlock Holmes dramatisations. And so, her young mind was formed, and set on the path of becoming the extraordinary author she is today.

Now based in Bowral NSW, she's the bestselling writer of dozens of absurd and witty books including Friday Barnes, The Adventures of Nanny Piggins, The Peski Kids and the Shockingly and Astonishingly Good Stories collections. Her podcast, Bedtime Stories with R.A. Spratt, has had over 4 million downloads and connects R.A. with story-lovers across the globe.

For more information, visit raspratt.com

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Praise for The Adventures Of Nanny Piggins 1

Sarah Piggins is irrepressible, effortlessly eclipsing all her famous fictional peers.

The Australian

This splendidly subversive take on the special relationship between paid carers and their charges, loaded with wit. Read it with a child, or to a child, but don't let them carry it off into a corner for their exclusive enjoyment.

The Australian

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