My Dad's Got an Alligator! by Jeremy Strong

Author:Jeremy Strong
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141916613
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2008-11-06T05:00:00+00:00

I searched high and low.

I even looked in the but what Granny would have been doing in there I don’t know. I reported back and gave Mum the news.

Talk about hysterics! She threw her hands up in the air and dashed into the house screaming, ‘Mother! Mother! Where are you?’ She looked in all the places I had already thought of, but there was no doubt that we were Granny-less.

Mum came downstairs very slowly, her face like a dentist’s patient. She stared at me with huge eyes. ‘She’s been eaten. It’s that alligator. I know it’s that alligator, Nicholas! Dad should never have brought it into the house. Crunchbag has escaped and he’s eaten Granny. He must have smelt her.’

I suppose he could have smelt her because Granny whiffs strongly of Tandoori Chicken Tikka, which is her most favourite meal of all time.

‘Surely there’d be blood somewhere, or bits of clothing,’ I suggested. Mum held out one hand. She was holding Granny’s spectacles. One of the arms was twisted and broken.

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