Children's Fiction. Illustrated by John Petropoulos. Plato, an eco-warrior, and part-time plumber fixes watery problems like leaking taps, but he also fixes grumpy people with jokes or a smile spray. His tool kit is legendary. Despite ferals along the creek bank, Plato is on call to help Zanzibar and his family who are renovating their old creekside house.
Author City: Melbourne AUS
Hazel Edwards is a Melbourne-based author who writes books and scripts for children and adults. She has written 200 books, which have been widely translated. She won the 2009 ASA Medal for services to the writing community and is short-listed for the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Children's Literature Award. There's a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake is her best known title, which has continuously been in print for 30 years and adapted for stage, radio, video, and puppetry.
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