Mim and the Baffling Bully by Katrina Nannestad

Author:Katrina Nannestad
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ABC Books
Published: 2021-06-21T00:00:00+00:00

‘I love cheese!’ shouts Nat. He wraps his arms around a giant wheel of cheese with waxy red skin and kisses it!

Casper laughs.

Dad frowns. ‘Oh, you meant you’d pay in cheese!’

‘But of course!’ says Casper. ‘Do you prefer money?’

‘No,’ Dad replies. ‘I prefer lambs.’

We leave Casper sitting on his doorstep, clutching his new books and chuckling. It really does look like these are the right books. Which makes me think of Willemina and the wrong book.

We ride a different way home, through more fields of tulips — cherry red, orange, yellow. Dad pedals along beside us, a fat lamb staring out from the bike basket.

‘I love lambs!’ shouts Nat.

‘Me too!’ I sing.

Dad smiles. He zooms ahead and zigzags from one side of the path to the other, like a bee buzzing from flower to flower. The lamb bleats, and I wonder if it’s dizzy or happy or both.

Nat and I laugh and pedal really fast until we catch up.

We stop in a meadow full of wildflowers and grass. We make daisy chains while the lamb nibbles at its favourite bits.

‘She loves flowers!’ shouts Nat.

‘I think she might be a he,’ says Dad. ‘Which means he’ll grow into a big ram, with enormous horns and possibly a bad temper. He’ll probably be a head-butter. Maybe even a bottom-biter.’

‘I love head-butters and bottom-biters!’ shouts Nat.

‘Maybe we can teach him to bite Gerda’s bottom,’ I mutter.

I drape a daisy chain around the lamb’s neck and Nat shouts, ‘Daisy! His name is Daisy!’

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