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Kids at Landfill Public School are bouncing off the walls with excitement because it's ... Book Parade It's also Sascha Martin's News Day. Mr Jack and Mrs Barnum should be terrified. But they're upbeat, they're confident, they're ready to catch anything the day can throw at them. What's going on?Mrs Mayhem is dusting off the First Aid Kit, but Sascha's new invention is perfectly safe, he says ... as long as no one drops it.Why can't they drop it? Sascha won't say, and Mary-Alice Cooper will do anything to find out.Could things get out of hand? They certainly could, and it wouldn't take much to set the ball rolling.One small misstep for Sascha. Check.One giant leap for Mr Jack. Check.One girl who won't take "Just be patient, Mary-Alice," for an answer. Check.From John Arthur Nichol and Manuela Pentangelo, the team who brought you Sascha Martin's Rocket-Ship and Sascha Martin's Time Machine, comes the latest chortle-inducing catastrophe from the chain of disasters that is the Sascha Martin series.Sascha Martin's Super Ball. His worst disaster yet, by leaps and bounds.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the past It's News Day again for Sascha Martin, Landfill Public School's inventive 8 year old, and a new invention brings his classmates face to face with the living, breathing, stomping, chomping, leaping, climbing, gnashing, slashing megafauna (really big animals) that lived in Australia 12,000 years ago. Plus a ring-in from much, much earlier, and he's not happy at all Life back then was all about not being eaten, and the challenge is almost too much for Sascha, Luca, and Mary-Alice, and Mr Jack and Mrs Barnum, and all the other teachers and children swept up in Sascha's new Show and Tell miscalculation.This hilarious, epic sequel to Sascha Martin's Rocket-Ship adds a new twist to the time travel genre, poking the boundaries of science fiction and taking children where no child has gone before - to a school overrun by enormous prehistoric creatures.

How do you produce a flying sleigh on Christmas Eve, complete with nine flying reindeer? (Hint - it's not okay to steal Santa's).Sascha has just hours to deliver the impossible, or face the wrath of his not-friend Mary-Alice, who's been dreaming the impossible all year.Can he bring her down to earth? Should he leave her up there? It's all designer scarves, reindeer lattes and shiny objects as Mary-Alice cracks the whip high above Landfill. But when science goes overboard and reality strikes her magical journey, will Sascha and Luca dare stand up to her? And is that even safe, in a sleigh?Sascha Martin's Christmas Eve: It's a Magical Journey, or Else One of those stories to read again and again, because you weren't there. Aurelius Jack, Landfill teacher.So funny. I wasn't there either. Giggle. Tilly (Matilda) Mayhem, Class Teacher for Sascha, Luca and Mary-Alice. And probably that other Luca now as well.It's a magical journey, or else Jerome Addendum, Landfill and districts champion subtitle-finder.Mary-Alice Cooper is a role model for all girls. Mary-Alice Cooper.That girl should be locked up Boadicea Barnum, Landfill teacher.Humorous. Klaus, over coffee.I won't judge the actions or attitudes of my classmates, but I would have liked another 90,000 words. Agnetha Plumladen, Landfill Readathon Champion and eight-times winner of the Premier's Compulsive Reading Award.Discerning boys and girls of any age will recognise this book for what it really is - an adventure in verse to unite all children, 0-5, 6-8, 9-12, 10-99 and beyond, in the joyous exuberance of shameless, preteen laughter. A friend of the author.A story that unborn kids will adore. The Education in Utero Foundation (EUF).It happened in the holidays, so it's nothing to do with me, the school or my professional reputation. Rose-Potpourri Hat, Principal, Landfill Public School.The rhymes delight, and the rhythm is right Angus McClangus, rhyming columnist at the Landfill Journal (Please note: the g is hard).See me at Recess. Boadicea Barnum, Landfill teacher.Oh my god that is so unfair Mary-Alice Cooper.And at lunchtime Boadicea Barnum, Landfill teacher.Oh my ... (Review deleted).