Contents

Contents : foreword -- acknowledgements -- the reading room by Joy Cowley -- Pavlova Queen by Rose Hudson -- Trapped by an Octopus by Janet Slater Bottin -- Witches Britches by Karen Sidney -- Silent Reading by David Hill -- The Super-Trolley by Cynthia Todd Maguire -- Uncle Trev and the Light Bulb by Jack Lasenby -- Circus Routine by Diana Noonan -- Roimata and the Forest of Tane by Miriam Smith -- The Case of the Phantom Tagger by Margaret Shroder -- Mayday by Christine Ashton -- Green Marmalade to You by Margaret Mahy -- Parent Help by Anna Kenna -- Leila’s Lunch by Jane Buxton -- Weapons of Mass Description by Anna Kenna -- The Violin by Gillian S. Findsen -- A Load of Junk by John Lockyer -- Horse by Adrienne Jansen -- Uncle Trev and the Howling Dog Service by Jack Lasenby -- Would you like to be a parrot by Barbara Hill -- The Caves in the cliff by Patricia Irene Johnson -- The chocolate bomb by Stuart Payne -- Ms Winsley and the Pirate who didn’t have a problem by Barbara Else -- Intruders by Elizabeth Best -- Why Anna hung upside down by Margaret Mahy -- beans by Patricia Grace -- When Mum won lotto by Valerie Batchelor -- Sebastian by Janice Leitch -- Just one thing by K.E. Anderson -- Where’s pete by Penelope Newman -- index.