The creamy textured pages were a pleasure to touch and turn. So as an undercover book dealer I can say I thoroughly enjoyed Runt. 148 reviews Ebook 408 Pages About this ebook arrowforward Late on a hot summer night in the tail end of 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent. As parents and friends, we smuggle books these days through the hell-pass of electronic devices and into the world of our children’s beautiful minds. A major obstacle for Annie to overcome is that Runt can only perform when nobody is looking.Īnother hallmark of children’s literature is that it must entertain the adults. Runt is fast, nimble and loves to herd the shearers’ sheep. To break the impasse of their poverty, Annie seizes upon an opportunity to pay the “overdraft on the overdraft” by entering Runt in a lucrative dog-agility competition to be held in London. While Annie lives with her family on a drought-affected sheep farm, it becomes apparent that money worries aside, her mum is a frustrated fashion designer, dad a frustrated horticulturist and teenage brother a frustrated Evel Knievel. Craig Silvey has written a delicious novel about an 11-year-old girl and her dog, Runt.
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