Sydney and the Sea Monster
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Sydney spies trouble
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The Whaler appears
Sydney and The Sea Monster won the Honour Book Award in the Picture Book category of the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards in 2000.
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Sometimes, once you have given life to characters, their world and their personalities continue to accumulate around them . They go about their lives on the edge on your imagination, in a world of which you have only shown a slice.
Somewhere along the line Sydney came up with his 'super-whale-powered nest-builder' and I knew I’d have to rescue him and Bill again.
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The whalebird in trouble
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Random House combined both Sydney stories into a single soft cover edition in 2007. This book has proved so popular that Flying Whale Books republished!
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