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  • Published: 1 February 2006
  • ISBN: 9781741660265
  • Imprint: Random House Australia Children's
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $14.99

Floods 2: Playschool




The second book in Colin Thompson’s brilliantly funny series about a family of witches and wizards who might be living in your town.

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.

  • Published: 1 February 2006
  • ISBN: 9781741660265
  • Imprint: Random House Australia Children's
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $14.99

About the author

Colin Thompson

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.

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Praise for Floods 2: Playschool

The Floods is The Adams Family [sic] with an edge. Book 1 in the series is funny, irreverent and gross in the way that appeals to boys … Subversion is the order of the day … The text is aptly illustrated throughout by Colin Thompson.The darkly funny illustrations, combined with the device of speaking directly to the reader, often in asides, results in a book that is almost interactive.This is a book that is certain to grab the attention of many readers who enjoy humour and should be in school libraries.

Toni Somesan, Fiction Focus