This stunning collection includes four of the best and favourite Bottersnikes and Gumbles stories chosen from the original beloved classics…Deep in the Australian bush live some very strange creatures.Bottersnikes make their homes in rubbish heaps. They have green wrinkly skin, cheese-grater noses and pointed ears that go red when they’re angry – which is most of the time.Gumbles are happy little creatures who can be squashed into any shape without being hurt. They’re clever and resourceful except when they go giggly. Then they’re far too silly to do anything at all.This is handy for the Bottersnikes who, with cries of ‘Got You’, grab the Gumbles, squash them into tins and only take them out when there’s work to be done. Can the Gumbles outwit the grouchy Bottersnikes and avoid being captured again?
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Desmond Digby. The Adventures of Bottersnikes and Gumbles
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RUNNING DOWN TO THE BEACH
WILLIGUMBLE — LATE AS USUAL
THE ADVENTURES OF CHANK
SPRING IN THE AIR
THE KING’S PARTY
SUPERGUMBLE
THE PALACE-MOBILE
THE ART OF CATCHING GUMBLES
THE ARTIST AND THE DREAMER
DUMP DEVELOPMENT SCHEME
HOT AND STRONG
TINKINGUMBLE AND THE DRY WATER
CASTING THE VOTES
THE DARK FOREST
GUMBLEDUCKS
THE QWERTYUIOP
About the Author
About the Publisher
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So the Gumbles were hauled out of the tins and put to work building bigger and better rubbish heaps for the Bottersnikes to crawl into; a nastier job for Gumbles would be impossible to find. ‘Harder, harder,’ the Bottersnikes bawled. ‘And don’t try and run away, ’cos we’re watching you!’
But they did not see one little Gumble under the King’s car, where he was puzzling over a tin-opener he had found. This Gumble was the one who had tinks — every tink was a good idea — and as soon as he discovered how the tin-opener worked a real beauty came to him: tink! Clear as if you had tapped the edge of a glass with a spoon.
