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132 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), music Contents: Stories -- Activities -- Comics -- Art -- Non-fiction -- Song Summary: Annual is a varied and irresistible miscellany for intrepid readers especially commissioned for 9- to 12-year-olds. Annual features a dictionary of crazy words that come in handy on car trips, a sophisticated 'spot the similarity', a found poem from school newsletters, a maths-nerd's memoir full of tricky logic puzzles, and top-class fiction that spans Christchurch Botanic Gardens in the 19th C, the loss of a brother, a Kiwi beach holiday, and a Fontanian boarding school. ... Contributors: Bernard Beckett, Fifi Colston, Gavin Bishop, Dylan Horrocks, Barbara Else, Coco Solid, Samuel Scott, Whiti Hereaka, Paul Beavis, Sharon Murdoch, Damien Wilkins and many others! (Publisher)