The Gargling Gorilla

by Margaret Mahy

  Muckabout School Ian Whybrow

  Pants on Fire Victoria Lloyd

  Mr Skip Michael Morpurgo

  Daisy May Jean Ure

  Dazzling Danny Jean Ure

  Down with the Dirty Danes Gillian Cross

  The Gargling Gorilla Margaret Mahy

  King Henry VIII’s Shoes Karen Wallace

  The Witch’s Tears Jenny Nimmo

  Elephant Child Mary Ellis

  Copyright

  First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2003

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  The individual stories The Gargling Gorilla and The Runaway Reptiles were first published in Great Britain in the anthology Bubble Trouble by Hamish Hamilton Ltd in 1991

  Text copyright © Margaret Mahy 1991 and 2003

  Illustrations by Tony Ross 1991 and 2003

  Margaret Mahy asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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