SINGLET: A light torso-covering garment. People with good shoulders wear them in gyms. People with not-so-good shoulders wear them under their shirts.
SQUIZ: A look, a peek, a glimpse. Information-gathering activity using the eyes. Australians are busy people, so they often only have time for “a quick squiz.”
STACK ME: A colloquial Aussie exclamation registering surprise and amazement. As in, “Morris Gleitzman has written twenty books and they're all as funny as this one? Stack me!”
Morris Gleitzman grew up in England and moved to Australia when he was sixteen. He has been a frozen-chicken thawer, a sugarmill rolling-stock unhooker, 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 Rageis his fourteenth book. Visit him at www.morrisgleitzman.com.
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Illustrations copyright © 2001 by Rod Clement
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