Oliver Strange’s life in London is all very normal until his father disappears in the wilds of the Okavango Swamps while collecting frog data. When Oliver goes in search of his dad, he is captured and things go from bad to worse. He soon discovers his knowledge of reading maps and his Swiss Army knife are not enough when faced with crocodiles, hippos, lions and dynamite-brandishing crooks with a sinister goal – to collect venom from the most poisonous frog of all – the golden poison dart frog, found only in Colombia. Oliver is faced with not only saving his father – but perhaps the whole world. This school edition of Oliver Strange and the Journey to the Swamps is included in the Department of Basic Education’s National Catalogue for Senior Phase learners. It has been revised and updated with activities for pre-reading and post-reading, questions according to cognitive levels, glossaries and notes on the genre of the novel. Memoranda available online at www.tafelberg.com.
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Diane Hofmeyr. Oliver Strange and the journey to the swamps (school edition)
1. Mistaken Identity
2. Strange Travel Companions
3. Mosi oa Tunya
4. A Whisper of Something Sinister
5. Tooting, London - Wanted Alive
6. Danger!
7. No Escape
8. The Python
9. Action
10. The Quest Begins
11. An Encounter
12. Phyllobates Terribilis
13. Dynamite!
14. The Battle
15. A Helicopter
16. My Dad, the Famous Herpetologist
Glossary
The Novel as Genre
Glossary of Literary Terminology
Notes to the Teacher
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Oliver Strange and the Journey to the Swamps
School Edition
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He read it again to be quite sure there was nothing he’d missed. A train to the Victoria Falls. A bus to Kasane. Very casual instructions. No details. Aunt Hortense was like his father. She left out details. It was probably a family thing. Which was odd, seeing his father was a zoologist – well actually a herpetologist – and she was a doctor. Shouldn’t doctors and zoologists know better? What now? Should he go? At Heathrow airport, his grandma had warned: Be careful, Oliver! Don’t take any risks.
He wanted to take out his map to check on Kasane. And how far was it from the Okavango Swamps? But the men were in a hurry for him to get going. He tried hard to forget the little rat that was still gnawing away at his stomach.
