Selby's Secret (10 page)

Duncan Ball is an Australian author and scriptwriter, best known for his popular books for children. Among his most-loved works are the Selby books of stories plus the collections
Selby's Selection, Selby's Joke Book
and
Selby's Side-Splitting Joke Book.
Some of these books have also been published in New Zealand, Germany, Japan and the USA, and have won countless awards, most of which were voted by the children themselves.

Among Duncan's other books are the Emily Eyefinger series about the adventures of a girl who was born with an eye on the end of her finger, and the comedy novels
Piggott Place
and
Piggotts in Peril,
about the frustrations of twelve-year-old Bert Piggott forever struggling to get his family of ratbags and dreamers out of the trouble they are constantly getting themselves into.

Duncan lives in Sydney with his wife, Jill, and their cat, Jasper. Jasper often keeps Duncan company while he's writing and has been known to help by walking on the keyboard. Once, returning to his work, Duncan found the following word had mysteriously appeared on screen: lkantawq … … ….

Emily Eyefinger
Emily Eyefinger, Secret Agent
Emily Eyefinger and the Lost Treasure
Emily Eyefinger and the Black Volcano

Emily Eyefinger's Alien Adventure
Emily Eyefinger and the Devil Bones
Emily Eyefinger and the Balloon Bandits

Piggott Place
Piggotts in Peril

Selby's Secret
Selby Speaks
Selby Screams
Selby Supersnoop
Selby Spacedog
Selby Snowbound
Selby Surfs
Selby Snaps!
Selby's Joke Book
Selby Splits
Selby's Selection
Selby's Stardom
Selby's Side-splitting Joke Book
Selby Sorcerer

Angus & Robertson
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, Australia

First published in Australia in 1985
This edition published in 2011
by HarperCollins
Publishers
Australia Pty Limited

ABN 36 009 913 517

Copyright © Duncan Ball 1985

Illustrations copyright © Allan Stomann 1985

The right of Duncan Ball to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by his under the
Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000
.

This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the
Copyright Act 1968
, no part may be reproduced, copied, scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Duncan Ball

Selby Secret / Duncan Ball.

ISBN: 978-0-2072-0004-5 (pbk.)

ISBN: 978-0-7304-9526-0 (ePub)

Ball, Duncan, 1941—.

1. Dogs — Juvenile fiction. I. Stomann, Allan. II. Title

A823.3