Wigglesbottom Primary: Super Dog! - preview

FROM THE WINNER OF THE BLUE PETER BEST STORY AWARD

ANYTHING can happen at WIGGLESBOTTOM PRIMARY and it ALWAYS does.

Is that a superhero dog on the school roof? YES! Is the lunchtime mashed potato really, really weird? YES! Does Susie Keys own an alien egg? YES! So what are Class 2R going to do about it all?

HAVE A LOT OF FUN! Three perfectly pitched school stories hilariously told by Pamela Butchart and beautifully illustrated

by Becka Moor.

Prepare to laugh your stinky shoes off!

£5.99 www.nosycrow.com COVER ARTWORK © BECKA MOOR 2017

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PAMELA BUTCHART lives in Dundee with her husband and their two awesome cats. She teaches philosophy at secondary school and would like to open a luxury hotel for stray cats. Probably called Meowington Palace.

BECKA MOOR studied Illustration at Glyndwr University in North Wales. She has since moved back to Manchester where she works under the strict supervision of Miss Daisy and Bella, her two cats. Affectionately called Ray-Ray and Cinderbella.

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THERE’S LOADS MORE MAYHEM IN

WELCOME TO

HANA

MISS RILEY

JAYDEN IRFAN

LAUREN

EVIE

MILES MEGAN

SU

SUSIE

MR HARRIS

ROZ SUNITA GAVIN

ANNE-MARIE JOEL

BOBBY

THEO

First published in 2017 by Nosy Crow Ltd The Crow’s Nest, Baden Place Crosby Row, London SE1 1YW www.nosycrow.com ISBN: 978 0 85763 675 1 Nosy Crow and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Nosy Crow Ltd Text copyright © Pamela Butchart 2017 Cover and inside illustrations © Becka Moor, 2017 The right of Pamela Butchart and Becka Moor to be identified as the author and illustrator respectively has been asserted.

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CONTENTS

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FOR DOM, IAN, LEN & THE CHICKENS! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING, DOM. IT’S BEEN A HOOT! P. B. TO MANDY AND JAY B. M.

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One time, a

DOG got into the playground

at morning break.

At first, we all thought it was a

WOLF

because it was HUGE. But Megan McNally

DEFINITELY NOT a wolves are WILD so they

said that it was wolf because

don’t wear collars.

The dog ran around the playground for ages and everyone

SCREAMED

whenever it

came near them. But then Mr Harris, the deputy head, came out to see what all the

SCREAMING disappeared.

was about and the dog

EVERYONE

was talking about the

Playground Dog when we went back to the classroom and NO

ONE could concentrate

on their French like Miss Riley wanted us to do because we were all thinking about the dog.

Then Bobby Henderson gasped and pointed out of the window and shouted, “

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HE’S BACK!

”

But by the time we all got out of our seats and ran up to the window to see, Playground Dog had

DISAPPEARED again.

Irfan Baxter said that it was a bit

WEIRD

how

BOTH TIMES

the dog

had disappeared so quickly and that maybe Playground Dog had

POWERS

.

That’s when we all realised that this was

NO ORDINARY DOG. 5

At lunchtime, loads of people spotted Playground Dog in weird places and Megan McNally even thought she spotted his tail on the

ROOF!

That’s when Irfan said, “I can’t believe it.

THAT’S

how he keeps disappearing.

Playground Dog can

FLY!”

Then Susie Keys shouted, “He’s a SUPER

DOG!”

And everyone gasped and someone started

EVERYONE started clapping and shouting, “SU-PER DOG! SU-PER DOG!” EVERYONE wanted to meet Super Dog

clapping. And then

but we didn’t know what to do to stop him from flying away from us.

So that’s when Susie Keys said that she would

SACRIFICE

her lunch so we

could all meet Super Dog. I didn’t really know what that meant until Susie Keys took her cheese sandwich out of 6

her lunch box and shouted,

“HEEEERE, SUPER DOG! YUMMY-YUMMY!”

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Nothing happened for a bit. But then all of a sudden we heard a rustling sound and Super Dog came running out of the bushes and everyone

GASPED!

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Susie Keys threw the cheese sandwich up in the air and Super Dog jumped up really high and caught it in his mouth and everyone

CHEERED!

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We all stood in a circle around Super Dog and watched while he ate the cheese sandwich.

Once he was finished eating he sat down and

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STARED at Megan McNally.

That’s when Megan said her

EYES

felt

weird and that she thought Super Dog was

COMMUNICATE through his EYES.

trying to

with her

So Megan put out her hand and Super Dog licked her hand four times and then ran away.

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Then that afternoon when we were in PE Megan gasped because her

HAND

ECZEMA RASH had completely

DISAPPEARED. Megan pointed to

EXACTLY

where

Super Dog had licked her and said,

“LOOK!

It’s not even

ITCHY any more.

Super Dog has

HEALING POWERS!”

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