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  Gordon ran out of the enchanted forest and never returned. Later he met a beautiful princess, married her and lived happily ever after.

  No he didn’t. Sometimes, when the bloody moon is brooding, he creeps back to that place of snakes and birds and devils. That place of mud and madness and magic. After the kiss of a princess the frog pond will still call to him. And he must walk in the night for a while, for without the dark there is no day, nor star to see, nor tale to tell … to show the way.

  Robin Gordon, 2009

  ALSO BY PAUL JENNINGS

  How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare . . .

  The UN series. Ten volumes

  The Gizmo series. Four volumes

  Wicked! With Morris Gleitzman

  Deadly! With Morris Gleitzman

  The Reading Bug . . .

  and how you can help your child catch it

  The Rascal series

  Round the Twist

  The Cabbage Patch series

  The Singenpoo series

  More information about Paul Jennings and The Nest can be found at pauljennings.com.au and penguin.com.au/nest