Evie in the Jungle. Matt Haig

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      This book has been specially created and published to celebrate World Book Day. World Book Day is a charity funded by publishers and booksellers in the UK and Ireland. Our mission is to offer every child and young person the opportunity to read and love books by giving you the chance to have a book of your own. To find out more, and for loads of fun activities and reading recommendations to help you to keep reading, visit worldbookday.com

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      First published in Great Britain in 2020

      by Canongate Books Ltd,

      14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

       canongate.co.uk

      This digital edition first published in 2020 by Canongate Books

      Copyright © Matt Haig, 2020

      Illustrations copyright © Emily Gravett, 2020

      Extract from Evie and the Animals

      Copyright © Matt Haig, 2019

      Illustrations copyright © Emily Gravett, 2019

      The right of Matt Haig and Emily Gravett to be identified as the author and illustrator of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

       British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 1 83885 075 3

      eISBN 978 1 83885 077 7

      Typeset in Bembo by

      Palimpsest Book Production Ltd, Falkirk, Stirlingshire

      Contents

       Evie the Superstar

       A Big and Dangerous Place

       Riding the River

       The Pink Dolphins of Peru

       The Incredibly Daring Rescue

       A Sloth Called Ah

       A Very Grumpy Parrot

       The Tingle in Evie’s Head That Was the Start of a Brilliant Idea

       Four Mosquitoes and a Poison Dart Frog

       An Interview with a Jaguar

       Evie Saves the Jungle

       Character fact files

       The Snake and the Frog

      Evie Navarro opened the front door and saw a crowd of photographers and journalists.

      ‘EVIE! EVIE! CAN WE ASK A FEW QUESTIONS?’

      ‘EVIE! WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE FAMOUS?’

      ‘EVIE! HERE’S A DOG! CAN YOU READ ITS THOUGHTS?’

      Evie stood there feeling dizzy and lightheaded. ‘Um, um . . . I’m sorry – I’ve got to go.’

      Evie was a superstar.

      That’s what her best friend Ramesh said.

      ‘You are a superstar,’ he had told her the previous Tuesday, while eating a hummus and falafel sandwich on their favourite bench at Lofting High.

      But she wasn’t really. Well, Evie didn’t think so. She wasn’t a celeb or anything.

      It was just СКАЧАТЬ