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    Stupid River!
    Stupid River!
    Stupid River!
    Ebook42 pages11 minutes

    Stupid River!

    By Peter A. Reynolds

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    When a grumpy aardvark can't get to his termite supper because a river is in the way, he asks the nearby animals for help - only to reject every one of their ideas. But can he come up with anything better?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter A. Reynolds
    Release dateJun 12, 2015
    ISBN9781311974495
    Stupid River!
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    Peter A. Reynolds

    Peter Reynolds has written for theatre, radio and television. His work includes TV sketch shows: Touch Me I'm Karen Taylor, Revolver, and Man Stroke Woman; Radio plays: Per Ardua ad Terram, and Garden Tiger; Radio sketch shows: Dead Ringers, Concrete Cow, The Right Time, Ayres on the Air; and the Radio 4 sitcom Potting On which he co-wrote. Encouragingly, many of these shows can still be heard on Radio 7, if you don’t mind listening at 4am. His first novel, Getting a Grip, is available in ebook, audiobook, and paperback.

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    • 4/5
      Anyone who likes Winnie the Poo books will enjoy "Stupid River". It has good characters, plenty of humour and beautiful drawings, especially the pole-vaulting aardvark! A fun read and just the right length.

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    Stupid River! - Peter A. Reynolds

    By the same author, for adults:

    Getting a Grip

    Free Verse

    Contents

    Climb

    Splash

    Swim

    Paddle

    Build

    Swing

    Hop

    Think

    Goodbye

    Maybe

    About the author

    Other books by the author

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    Climb

    Stupid river! the aardvark shouted. He listened for a moment to see if anyone would reply but no-one did.

    The aardvark had walked all night, searching for a termite hill with several hundred tasty termites inside. But when morning came and all the other aardvarks had gone to bed in their burrows, this aardvark still hadn’t found any termites. So he carried on walking, getting hungrier and hungrier, and more and more sorry for himself with each step.

    aardvark

    The aardvark’s tummy rumbled. I’m hot and tired and hungry, he moaned, and now there’s a river in my way. He picked up a stone and threw it into the water.

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