Selby Scrambled (16 page)

fun-filled adventures yet! So hold on tight as you rocket through space and time with the perilous pooch as he deals with a nasty knight and an even nastier dragon!

And take a deep breath as Aunt Jetty tears through town on a runaway toilet leaving a trail of destruction; then Selby is captured and taken away to be the ruler of a mysterious jungle tribe; and if that isn’t enough he falls head over heels in love with the most gorgeous girl-dog he’s ever seen!

But the big question is: will the world learn

that Selby can talk? Only you can answer that question, so grab this eighth

collection of stories and read it, and then scream at the top of your lungs:

I know the answer and I’m not telling!

The author would like to thank Shona Martyn, Lisa Berryman, Vanessa Radnidge, Cristina Rodrigues, Barbara Pepworth, Helen Beard and all the others at HarperCollins Australia, who make these books possible. Thanks as well to Callum and Darcy Gray, youth quality assurance consultants, and to Allan Stomann for his wonderful pictures of a dog he’s never seen.

Duncan Ball is an Australian author best known for his popular books for children. Among his best-loved works are the books about Selby, the talking dog.
Selby Scrambled
is the twelfth collection of short stories about ‘the only talking dog in Australia, and perhaps the world’. There is also a selection of stories taken from the other books, called
Selby’s Selection,
and two collections of jokes,
Selby’s Joke Book
and
Selby’s Side-splitting Joke Book.

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 constantly get themselves into.

Duncan lives in Sydney with his wife, Jill, and their cat, Jasper. There is a saying that dogs have owners and cats have slaves. In the Trifles’ house it’s sometimes hard to tell if Selby or the Trifles are really in charge. But in Duncan’s house there can be little doubt — they are Jasper’s slaves.

For more information about Duncan and his books, see Selby’s web site at: www.harpercollins.com.au/selby

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
Emily Eyefinger and the Puzzlein the Jungle
Emily Eyefinger and the City in the Sky

Piggott Place
Piggotts in Peril

The Case of the Graveyard Ghost and Other Mysteries
The Case of the Vampire’s Wire and Other Mysteries