The Quest for Kool by Chris Flynn

The Quest for Kool by Chris FlynnAge range 5+ The Quest for Kool follows the adventures of an intrepid palaeontologist echidna named Tacho. Her all time favourite animal is the Koolasuchus, and her greatest wish is to meet one of these long extinct amphibians in the flesh. So she invents a time travel device! As she skips back through time, Tacho comes across a host of oddball characters, including a chatty marsupial lion and some very hungry toothed seabirds. But will she ever find

whether you want to plant a garden that flowers in succession

blackly comic novel offers searing insight into our times

} The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples

and neither is dealing with strict parents

soon-to-be 7-year-old and the apple of her dad's eye

a lusty appreciation of mankind

But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there

and remind us that beauty is everywhere

steeped in geological and tragic human history

or Grundle and Grinola

Why are some birds so colourful and others are not

''The mantle of "queer migrant" compelled me to keep going - to go further