Roll Over Roly - Anne Fine [0]
Roll Over Roly
Anne Fine was born and educated in the Midlands, and now lives in County Durham. She has written numerous highly acclaimed and prize-winning books for children and adults. Her novel The Tulip Touch won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal, and was adapted for television by the BBC; Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; Bill's New Frock won a Smarties Prize, and Madame Doubtfire has become a major feature film.
www.annefine.co.uk
Some other books by Anne Fine
Books for Younger Readers
Care of Henry
Countdown
Design-a-Pram
The Diary of a Killer Cat
The Haunting of Pip Parker
Jennifer's Diary
Loudmouth Louis
Notso Hotso
Only a Show
Press Play
The Same Old Story Every Year
Scaredy-Cat
Stranger Danger?
The Worst Child I Ever Had
Books for Middle-range Readers
The Angel of Nitshill Road
Anneli The Art Hater
Bill's New Frock
The Chicken Gave It To Me
The Country Pancake
Crummy Mummy and Me
How To Write Really Badly
A Pack of Liars
A Sudden Glow of Gold
A Sudden Puff of Glittering Smoke
A Sudden Swirl of Icy Wind
ANNE FINE
Roll Over Roly
Illustrated by Philippe Dupasquier
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For Sonia Benster's dad
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First published 1999
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Text copyright © Anne Fine, 1999
Illustrations copyright © Philippe Dupasquier, 1999
All rights reserved
The moral right of the author and illustrator has been asserted
Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser
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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN: 978-0-14-193034-3
Contents
1 Take the Road of Not Yet
2 All Uncooked Joints Will Be Carved
3 When Sunny Smile…
4 Don't Boast When You Set Off
5 Bad Habits Are First Cobwebs
6 Life Is a Splendid Robe
7 Roll Over, Roly!
8 Accidents Will Happen
9 Faster, You Dozy Lump! Faster!
10 Good Manners Are Like Measles
1 Take the Road of Not Yet
RUPERT'S MOTHER AND father had to go to Great Uncle Percy's funeral. All the usual babysitters were busy. So Rupert was dropped off at Great Aunt Ada's house, with Roly, his puppy.
Rupert and Great Aunt Ada waved the car round the corner, while Roly sat in a wet flower bed.
“You knew Great Uncle Percy,” said Rupert. “Why aren't you going too?”
“No fear!” said Great Aunt Ada. “At my age, funerals in wet weather tend to be catching.”
She turned to see Roly sprawling about in her pansies.
“Out!” she said. “Out of there at once!”
Roly ignored her, and began to chew a begonia.
“Isn't he trained yet?” Great Aunt Ada asked Rupert crossly.
“Not yet,” Rupert admitted. He didn't want to admit to someone he hardly knew that his new puppy was so round and warm and soft and lovely that he couldn't bring himself even to