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Bink and Gollie: Two for One
By (Author) Tony Fucile
By (author) Kate DiCamillo
By (author) Alison McGhee
Walker Books Ltd
Walker Books Ltd
1st July 2012
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
813.6
Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal 2014 (United States)
Hardback
96
Width 168mm, Height 249mm
442g
If youre looking for two marvellous companions, who will make you hug the page with delight, look no further than Bink and Gollie!
The state fair is in town, and for Bink and Gollie utter opposites and ber best friends three comical adventures await! Bink attacks the Whack-a-Duck with an unswerving winning attitude the worlds largest doughnut is up for grabs! And, with a quiet determination, Gollie storms the stage at the talent show... BUT a lousy shot and a case of stage fright spoil each girl's chances! Undeterred, they use their grey matter and turn it all around! In the final story, Bink and Gollie make a date with destiny: Madame Prunely, fortune teller spectacular! She looks into her crystal ball and tells them everything they could ever need to know ... they'll always be together. Without question.
There is plenty of dry comedy and laugh out loud moments to draw almost anyone in CBI recommended reads of 2012
Kate DiCamillo is the author of The Magicians Elephant, a New York Times best-seller; The Tale of Despereaux, which was awarded the Newbery Medal; Because of Winn-Dixie, a Newbery Honor book; and is the creator of the award-winning Mercy Watson series. Kate DiCamillo lives in Minneapolis, USA. Alison McGhee is the award-winning author of The Song of Middle C; the #1 New York Times bestseller Someday; and the young adult novel All Rivers Flow to the Sea. Alison McGhee lives in Minnesota, USA.
Tony Fucile has spent more than twenty years designing and animating characters for cartoon feature films, including The Lion King and The Incredibles, for which he was a supervising animator. His other picture titles include Let's Do Nothing and Driving to Bed. He lives in San Francisco, USA.