Explosive Adventures (14 page)

Also by Alexander McCall Smith

Akimbo and the Baboons

Akimbo and the Snakes

Bloomsbury Publishing, London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi and Sydney

The Popcorn Pirates
first published in Great Britain in 1999 by Scholastic Ltd

The Bubblegum Tree
first published in Great Britain in 1996 by Scholastic Ltd

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Text copyright © Alexander McCall Smith 1996, 1999

Illustrations copyright © Kate Hindley 2015

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