{"product_id":"toad-rage","title":"Toad Rage By Morris Gleitzman","description":"\u003cp\u003eLimpy can't understand why humans hate all cane toads so much - they even\u003cbr\u003esquash them with their cars. He is determined to save his own family from\u003cbr\u003eending up as flat as place mats. He sets off on a 'mucas-chillingly dangerous\u003cbr\u003eand wart-tinglingly daring journey' and risks everything to make humans see\u003cbr\u003ethat cane toads are really very nice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmazon Review\u003cbr\u003e\"Uncle Bart,\" said Limpy, \"Why do humans hate us?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncle Bart looked down at Limpy, and smiled fondly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stack me, Limpy,\" he chuckled, \"you are an idiot.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLimpy, a slighty squashed cane toad, is struggling to get to grips with the\u003cbr\u003eidea that humans really hate him and his kind, and refuses to bow down to the\u003cbr\u003epopular cane toad \"that's life\" philosophy that has led to the severe\u003cbr\u003eflattening of far too many of his uncles. So, he decides to take things into\u003cbr\u003ehis own hands and embarks on a journey across Australia in the hope that he can\u003cbr\u003echange the minds of the whole human race.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorris Gleitzman's Toad Rage is a superbly wry, dry and outrageously funny\u003cbr\u003etake on the coming-of-age journey. As Limpy does battle with the dusty outback\u003cbr\u003etracks and the danger-ridden streets of the Big City the reader is swept along\u003cbr\u003ewith his quest for absolute understanding, living and breathing every moment of\u003cbr\u003ethe always insightful and occasionally terrifying journey into the unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLimpy, with his squished limbs and fine collection of very flat uncles, is a\u003cbr\u003esweet and determined youngster whose inquisitive nature and total belief is\u003cbr\u003etypically indicative of a Gleitzman hero. Indeed, Gleitzman pulls off this\u003cbr\u003efunny, sensitive and totally absorbing story with the heart-warming (and\u003cbr\u003eoccasionally heart-rending) aplomb that will be familiar to any reader who has\u003cbr\u003eread Two Weeks with The Queenor his stunning Rowena Batts trilogy. And as\u003cbr\u003eusual, he doesn't offer any nice, neat answers but instead allows his\u003cbr\u003echaracters, and the reader, to come to their own conclusions about whether or\u003cbr\u003enot the battle is worth the effort.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGleitzman is simply a superb author who deserves to be read and enjoyed, and\u003cbr\u003ewith Toad Rage he pulls off another quirky winner that children will love, and\u003cbr\u003eadults will surely be tempted by.--Age 9 and over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReview\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Toad Rage is a superbly wry, dry and outrageously funny take on the\u003cbr\u003ecoming-of-age journey. As Limpy does battle with the dusty outback tracks and\u003cbr\u003ethe danger-ridden streets of the Big City the reader is swept along with his\u003cbr\u003equest for absolute understanding, living and breathing every moment of the\u003cbr\u003ealways insightful and occasionally terrifying journey into the unknown.'\u003cbr\u003eReviewer, Amazon --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition\u003cbr\u003eof this title.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51273196994843,"sku":"9780141306551","price":8.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0915\/4363\/4203\/files\/toad-rage-by-morris-gleitzman-8737775.jpg?v=1781793668","url":"https:\/\/abcschoolsupplies.co.uk\/products\/toad-rage","provider":"ABC School Supplies ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}