Selby Snowbound Read online

  And when he’s drinking from a cup

  Luke lets his drool go running up

  Across his lip, just past his nose,

  Into his eye this liquid goes

  He cries: ‘Oh goody look at me!

  I can wash my eyes with Luke-warm tea!’

  CLIMATE

  Acknowledgements

  The author would like to thank all of those wonderful Selby fans who have written to him over the years. And a very special thanks to one of them, Brendan Watts, who suggested that Dr Trifle invent a machine to teach the non-swimming Selby how to swim. Dr Trifle doesn’t usually take advice from anyone but when he heard this he thought: ‘Why not?’ For the results see the story called ‘The Paddle-Pup’.

  About the Author

  Duncan Ball is an Australian author and scriptwriter, best known for his popular books for children. Among his most-loved works are the Selby books of stories plus the collections Selby’s Selection, Selby’s Joke Book and Selby’s Sidesplitting Joke Book. Some of these books have also been published in New Zealand, Germany, Japan and the USA, and have won countless awards, most of which were voted by the children themselves.

  Among Duncan’s other books are the Emily Eyefinger series about the adventures of a girl who was born with an eye on the end of her finger, and the comedy novels Piggott Place and Piggotts in Peril, about the frustrations of twelve-year-old Bert Piggott forever struggling to get his family of ratbags and dreamers out of the trouble they are constantly getting themselves into.

  Duncan lives in Sydney with his wife, Jill, and their cat, Jasper. Jasper often keeps Duncan company while he’s writing and has been known to help by walking on the keyboard. Once, returning to his work, Duncan found the following word had mysteriously appeared on screen: ikantawq .........

  BY THE SAME AUTHOR

  Emily Eyefinger

  Emily Eyefinger, Secret Agent

  Emily Eyefinger and the Lost Treasure

  Emily Eyefinger and the Black Volcano

  Emily Eyefinger’s Alien Adventure

  Emily Eyefinger and the Devil Bones

  Emily Eyefinger and the Balloon Bandits

  Emily Eyefinger and the Ghost Ship

  Piggott Place

  Piggotts in Peril

  Selby’s Secret

  Selby Speaks

  Selby Screams

  Selby Supersnoop

  Selby Spacedog

  Selby Snowbound

  Selby Surfs

  Selby Snaps!

  Selby’s Joke Book

  Selby Splits

  Selby’s Selection

  Selby’s Stardom

  Selby’s Side-splitting Joke Book

  Selby Sorcerer

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  Copyright

  Angus & Robertson

  An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, Australia

  First published in Australia in 1998

  This edition published in 2011

  by HarperCollinsPublishers Pty Limited

  ABN 36 009 913 517

  harpercollins.com.au

  Text copyright © Duncan Ball 1998

  Illustration copyright © Allan Stomann 1998

  The right of Duncan Ball and Allan Stomann to be identified as the moral rights author and illustrator of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000 (Cth).

  This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced, copied, scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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  National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

  Ball, Duncan, 1941– .

  Selby snowbound / Duncan Ball.

  ISBN: 978-0-2072-0019-9 (pbk.)

  ISBN: 978-0-7304-9521-5 (ePub)

  1. Dogs — Juvenile fiction. I. Stomann, Allan. II. Title.

  A823.3

  Cover design by Christa Edmonds