The Wild Wests and the Haunted Fridge: Part 4

By JOY COWLEY, Illustrator TREVOR PYE

My face was hot and I knew that if I tried to say anything I would start to bawl.

Good old Royce said it for me. "He wanted to go to Sydney."

Johnny put his hands on his hips. "Auntie Eileen and Uncle Arthur should have taken him. It isn't fair."

Auntie Rosie was wiping Honey's face with the end of her T-shirt. "Look at it this way, if Mickey was in Sydney he wouldn't be here, and that would be a howling tragedy for us."

"He can come here any time," said Royce.

"My brown mouse is having babies," said Jeannie. "That doesn't happen any time."

"How can you compare mice with Australia?" Miranda wanted to know.

"Easy," said Johnny. "Mice squeak. Australia doesn't."

Publisher: HarperCollins, $12.95 Age group: 8-12 years