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  • Published: 30 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448100446
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 96

Animal Crackers




A funny and clever story about defeating a playground bully; ideal for newly confident readers.

When Sanjay gets a bump on his head from the school bully, he wakes up to find that everyone in the playground has turned into an animal! The headmaster's a polar bear and Sanjay's best friend is a sheepdog. Even the ambulance that comes to take him to hospital is driven by a gorilla and the paramedic is a penguin...

Seeing his schoolmates in a new light gives Sanjay a clever idea about how to defeat the bully... Will Sanjay's wily plan work, or has the whole world gone animal crackers?

  • Published: 30 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448100446
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 96

About the author

Narinder Dhami

Narinder was born and brought up in Wolverhampton, with two younger sisters. She went to Birmingham University and worked for about ten years as a primary school teacher. Always nurturing a talent for writing, she finally turned her attention to it full-time after winning several short story prizes. Her very first book was accepted by a publisher and she hasn't looked back since.

She lives with her husband and their five cats in Shropshire.

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