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  About the Illustrator

  Sometimes I wish I was a professional surfer. Aside from the fact that it would be a little tricky drawing on wet paper, it would be a mega fun job. That, and anything to do with Sloths—they crack me up! Are there any jobs that actually involve working with Sloths? ‘WILD SLOTH TAMER WANTED!’ How cool would that be; except, Sloths aren’t really wild, like say, a Lion is. I guess they’d be more like a Hamster, just a lot slower and hairier and heaps bigger and not as annoying. The audience would have to be extremely patient. ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, starting tonight and over the course of the year…’ That would be pretty funny.

  Being an illustrator is kind of like being a Sloth Tamer—just different, in so many ways.

  Copyright

  Angus&Robertson

  An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, Australia

  First published in 2004

  This edition published in 2010

  by HarperCollinsPublishers Pty Limited

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  Text copyright © J.A. Mawter 2004

  Illustrations copyright © Gus Gordon 2004

  The right of J.A. Mawter and Gus Gordon to be identified as the moral rights author and illustrator of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000 (Cth).

  This Australian edition is copyright.

  Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be addressed to the publishers.

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  National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

  Mawter, J.A.

  So festy!

  ISBN: 978 0 2071 9919 6 (pbk.)

  ISBN: 978-0-730-49130-9 (ePub)

  I. Gordon, Gus. II. Title.

  A823.4

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