Phredde and the Zombie Librarian and Other Stories to Eat with a Blood Plum by Jackie French

Author:Jackie French [Jackie French]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780730491293
Publisher: HarperCollins

Well, I’ve never got anywhere so quickly since the last time the Phaery Splendifera broke the sound barrier. One second, we were there in the middle of the footpath, and the next, zap woooshh poweee, we were at Bruce’s lily pond.

It was great.

The lily pond was about as big as our school hall, with all these giant, round lily leaves (naturally), enormous pink and white waterlily flowers and this really cool magic lighting, so it looked almost as bright as day, even though it was starting to get dark. There was also the coolest looking rock band I’ve ever seen—all wearing gorilla suits. Maybe they really were gorillas, come to think of it, as this was an enchanted lily pond.

Our entire class was there, dancing on the lily pads—which looked quite firm, so there was no need for Mum to stress about drowning at all. In the middle of it all, Bruce was leaping about, croaking and generally frogging around.

I told you, it was great.

‘Bye, Mum!’ yelled Phredde, hopping off the magic carpet.

‘Thank you for the lift,’ I said politely, sliding off too.

‘Woof,’ said sort-of-cousin Tobias as he followed me, just as Bruce leapt up to greet us.

‘Hi!’ he croaked happily.

‘Happy birthday!’ I shrieked above the noise.

‘Happy birthday!’ yelled Phredde.

‘Thanks,’ croaked Bruce. He glanced suspiciously at Tobias.

‘Er…this is my sort-of-cousin, Tobias,’ I said. ‘Mum…er…suggested he come.’ I gave Bruce a look that said ‘Well, you know what mums are like’.

Bruce gave me a sympathetic look back. ‘Sure. Welcome!’ he said to sort-of-cousin Tobias, then hopped just a little bit further away from Tobias’s fangs. ‘Er…feel free to join in the dancing! He’s very…big isn’t he?’ he whispered to me.

‘Poor kid probably had an early growth spurt,’ I whispered back. ‘You know, like that really tall kid in Year Three.’

‘Er, I suppose so,’ whispered Bruce. He looked at sort-of-cousin Tobias a bit dubiously.

‘Woof!’ said sort-of-cousin Tobias, gazing at the dancers with interest. He scratched his ear with his back leg for a moment, then leapt out onto a lily pad and was lost amongst the dancers.

‘Sorry about that,’ I said to Bruce. ‘Here. Happy birthday.’ I handed him his present.

‘Wow thanks!’ said Bruce, grasping it in his damp, froggy, finger pads. He pulled at the wrapping paper. ‘Hey, thanks!’ he added as he saw what it was.

‘I made them myself,’ I said.

‘Great!’ said Bruce.

‘They’re chocolate-coated,’ I pointed out.

‘I can see,’ said Bruce.

‘I spent days catching them,’ I added. ‘And Mum helped me to roll them in melted chocolate.’

Bruce glanced down at his jar of chocolate-coated caterpillars. ‘It’s a really great present.’

‘And this is from me,’ said Phredde handing it to him. ‘It’s a book about mosquitoes.’

‘Yum!’ said Bruce. ‘My favourite snack food. Got any recipes in it?’ He lowered his voice. ‘Hey, you know what Amelia gave me?’

We shook our heads.

‘A pair of socks!’

‘Yuk!’ said Phredde, fluttering her wings smugly. ‘Who ever heard of a frog wearing socks? How stupid can you get?’ She gazed over at the musicians and her wings started beating in time to the music.

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