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    Hodgepodge: How To Make A Pet Monster by Lili Wilkinson, Illustrated by Dustin Spence Chapter Sampler

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    A fantastically readable, gloriously funny and highly collectable new junior fiction series. I'm Artie. I'm eleven years old. I do not believe in ghosts, or monsters. I do believe in science. I also believe that my step-sister Willow is kinda terrifying. Willow and I found a weird old book in the attic of our new house. It's called the Big Boke of Fetching Monsters. And it tells you how to make your own monster. But that's impossible. You DEFINITELY can't make a monster, because MONSTERS DO NOT EXIST.

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    A fantastically readable, gloriously funny and highly collectable new junior fiction series. I'm Artie. I'm eleven years old. I do not believe in ghosts, or monsters. I do believe in science. I also believe that my step-sister Willow is kinda terrifying. Willow and I found a weird old book in the attic of our new house. It's called the Big Boke of Fetching Monsters. And it tells you how to make your own monster. But that's impossible. You DEFINITELY can't make a monster, because MONSTERS DO NOT EXIST.

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    A fantastically readable, gloriously funny and highly collectable new junior fiction series. I'm Artie. I'm eleven years old. I do not believe in ghosts, or monsters. I do believe in science. I also believe that my step-sister Willow is kinda terrifying. Willow and I found a weird old book in the attic of our new house. It's called the Big Boke of Fetching Monsters. And it tells you how to make your own monster. But that's impossible. You DEFINITELY can't make a monster, because MONSTERS DO NOT EXIST.

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    A fantastically readable, gloriously funny and highly collectable new junior fiction series. I'm Artie. I'm eleven years old. I do not believe in ghosts, or monsters. I do believe in science. I also believe that my step-sister Willow is kinda terrifying. Willow and I found a weird old book in the attic of our new house. It's called the Big Boke of Fetching Monsters. And it tells you how to make your own monster. But that's impossible. You DEFINITELY can't make a monster, because MONSTERS DO NOT EXIST.

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    of 12

    For Banjo (the oldest), and Emlyn (the tallest), HOW TO

    and Jolyon (the wildest). LW.


    MAKE A
    For my wife, Shay. Thank you for all your love
    and support. DS.

    First published by Albert Street Books, an imprint of Allen & Unwin, in 2020

    Copyright © Text, Lili Wilkinson 2020

    HODGEPODG E
    Copyright © Illustrations, Dustin Spence 2020

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any
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    maximum of one chapter or ten per cent of this book, whichever is the greater, to
    be photocopied by any educational institution for its educational purposes provided
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    Cover and text design by Kristy Lund-White


    Set in 15 pt Yearnboy11 by Kristy Lund-White

    Printed and bound in May 2020 by McPhersons Printing Group, Australia

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    1 H O W TO L IV E

    S POH OUOSEKY
    IN A

    I’m Artie.
    ye a rs o l d,
    ven
    I’m ele se is
    h o u
    y new
    spooky
    n d m
    a .

    1
    I MEAN
    A L LY DO NOT,
    If I believed in ghosts, WHICH I

    R E I would think this house was haunted.


    Mum says the house has ‘amazing bones’.
    SPOOKY. She means it will be great when she
    fixes it up, but it makes me think of
    actual bones.
    It makes me think of skeletons that
    jump out of wardrobes ... if I believed
    skeletons could do that, WHICH I DO NOT.
    The spooky house isn’t the only new
    thing in our lives.
    It’s not just me and Mum living here.
    There’s also Mum’s partner, David Cole.
    I mean creaky floorboards, dusty attic, David Cole and Mum have been together
    spiders everywhere, SPOOKY. for a while, but this is the first time we’ve

    2 3
    h at is?
    all lived together in one (SPOOKY) house. Do you know w
    I don’t really know what to call David
    Cole, now I see him every day. Mr Cole is
    It’s Willow.
    too formal, David or (worse) Dave is weird,
    and obviously I’m not going to call him
    ‘Dad’, because he isn’t my dad.
    So I am currently experimenting with
    not calling him anything.
    A N G RY
    It seems to be working. FA C E
    But David Cole Hi Artie! A ST R E A K
    and this (not OF PU RPLE
    ST RO NG AR MS IN H E R H A IR
    haunted) house aren’t H i. FR OM AK ID O
    even the newest or
    spookiest thing
    about my life now.
    EL EC TR IC GU ITA R BL AC K FI N GE RN A IL S
    Willow is David Cole’s daughter. She’s
    a year older than me, and she’s

    utterly
    terrifyinG.
    My bedroom is next to hers, and she’s
    always shouting on the phone to
    her friends, or making sounds on her
    electric guitar like someone is stomping
    on a bag of cats.
    All I want to do today is read my
    Junior Scientist magazine in peace.
    I can’t read in my bedroom, because
    Willow is playing her electric guitar.

    6 7
    I can’t read at the kitchen table, I can’t read anywhere downstairs,
    because David Cole is making dinner. because it is Out Of Bounds while Mum
    By the way, David Cole does not believe is doing renovation stuff.
    in recipes. Here are some things he’s made I can’t read outside, because it’s
    since we moved into the scary house: raining.
    I can’t read in the bathroom, because

    1. Mashed potato and people keep wanting to go to the toilet.


    custard sushi Maybe I can read in the attic. The
    2. Peanut butter and attic is at the top of a very skinny flight
    onion waffles of stairs which creeeeeak when you walk
    3. Fried rice with banana up them.
    and pickle It’s quiet up there.
    4. Cheese and strawberry It’s also spooky.
    salad I don’t believe in ghosts.
    5. Pizza with tinned corn, Or monsters.
    sweet potato and jam
    9
    But I
    DO
    believe in ...

    SPIDERS.
    and
    Maybe this wasn’t
    LIGHTNING. a good idea after all.
    and

    THUNDER.
    10
    There’s a little window The kind of dirty old chest that a
    in the attic. The branches monster might hide in if they were real,
    of the giant fig tree in the WHICH I DO NOT BELIEVE THEY
    backyard clatter and bang ARE. And even though I am so scared
    against the window like I think I might throw up, I open the chest.
    skeleton fingers. There isn’t a monster inside. Or a
    I trip on a dirty old sheet skeleton.
    and tumble into the dust. There’s a book, which is much more
    Under the dirty old sheet interesting. It’s called the BIGGE BOK
    BO K E
    is a dirty old chest. of fetc hing mon ste r s . I think ‘bigge
    boke’ just means ‘big
    book’ in old-time
    language. ‘Monsters’
    definitely doesn’t mean
    real monsters though.

    13
    Suddenly there’s a

    big
    F H
    L A S
    of lightning, followed by

    DARKNESS.
    I’m in the dark.
    Alone.
    In a spooky attic in the spookiest
    house in the world. Holding a big spooky
    book about monsters.

    14
    And it’s really, really, really lucky 2 H O W TO FIND A
    B IG CR EEPY
    that I don’t believe in ghosts or walking
    skeletons. Or monsters.

    Because there is BOO K


    SOMETHING
    standing in the doorway.
    It’s Willow.
    ‘What are you doing?’
    she asks.
    ‘N-nothing,’ I say. ‘Just
    looking for somewhere quiet. To read.’
    ‘You can’t read with the lights off.’
    Just as she says that, the lights
    flicker on.

    17
    A HILARIOUS NEW SERIES!

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