Kids into books - The Great Bamboozle

The Great Bamboozle
Author: Joy Cowley

Publisher: Scholastic, $8.95

Illustrator: Philip Webb

Age group: 7-10 years


The pirates understood. A shout of laughter went up. "No bamboozle for old Grizzly!" They grabbed each other and danced around in circles, spluttering and crowing through their beards. "No bamboozle for Grizzly! No bamboozle for Grizzly!"

No one in the rest of the world knows why pirates have parrots. Parrots are big in the mouth.

They tell tales. And Captain Scuttle's parrot was a first-rate blabber. It flew out of the mayor's meeting calling, "No bamboozle for Grizzly!"

That would have been all right, but on the roof of the mayor's office sat the talking seagull. As a talker, it was a failure.


Tommorrow: "Get lost! and "Put a sock in it"