Toad Away (17 page)

MORRIS GLEITZMAN
grew up in England and moved to Australia when he was sixteen. He has been a frozen-chicken thawer, a sugar-mill rolling-stock un-hooker, a fashion-industry trainee, a department-store Santa, a TV producer, a newspaper columnist, and a screenwriter. Now he's a children's book author.
Toad Away
is his twentieth book. Visit him on the Web at
www.morrisgleitzman.com.

Published by Yearling, an imprint of Random House Children's Books a division of Random House, Inc., New York

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Illustrations copyright © 2003 by Rod Clement

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