"While the adventure is standard children outwitting bad adults, the setting and the characters make it different from the usual. It's very speedy... [and] great fun."

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Gidaado the Fourth and his albino camel are working for a famous General in his campaign to win the state elections. General Crêpe-Sombo is everyone's hero, but Sophie reckons there is something fishy about him. She must do some dangerous spying to find out the truth. It turns out that the General is more crooked than Sophie and Gidaado could ever have imagined. They must expose him before he becomes President! In a final breathtaking scene, the children are racing across the desert sands on camelback, pursued by General Crêpe-Sombo in his jeep. Who will prevail?
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Gidaado the Fourth and his albino camel are working for a famous General in his campaign to win the state elections. General Crêpe-Sombo is everyone's hero, but Sophie reckons there is something fishy about him. In a final breathtaking scene, the children are racing across the desert sands on camelback, pursued by General Crêpe-Sombo in his jeep.
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"While the adventure is standard children outwitting bad adults, the setting and the characters make it different from the usual. It's very speedy... [and] great fun."
An exciting new story about a dodgy election in the African desert setting up a new chase for Sophie and the albino camel.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781842707951
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Vendor
Andersen Press Ltd
Vekt
114 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
9 mm
Aldersnivå
J, 02
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
96

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Stephen Davies is a missionary living amongst Fulani herders in West Africa. He speaks Fulfulde, eats millet, and accompanies cattle-drives. He was involved in the set-up of a Fulfulde radio station which will broadcast news, griot music and advice about cows, crops and health. He also writes for the Guardian Weekly (Letters from Burkina Faso) and occasionally for the Sunday Times.