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First published in paperback in Great Britain 2017
by Egmont UK Limited
The Yellow Building, 1 Nicholas Road, London W11 4AN
Text copyright © 2017 Sam Watkins
Illustrations copyright © 2017 Vicky Barker
The moral rights of the author and illustrator have been asserted
First e-book edition 2017
ISBN 978 1 4052 8423 3
Ebook ISBN 978 1 7803 1757 1
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CONTENTS
Week 2
Pebble Pals
Week 3
A Little Bit of Magic!
Fishy facts!
Fishy Funnies!
I wrote so many words in my last diary that I filled it right up, so Mum bought me this new one. It is very shiny and lovely – and I already have some mega-exciting news to start it off . . .
MONKFISHDAY
Tomorrow my new pen pal, Coral Crab, is coming to stay with me for three weeks! She lives in a place called Rockpool. Our head teacher, Mr Snapper, told us that because summer has been so hot, all the water in Rockpool School has dried up! So the pupils will come to our school until they get their water back. It’s too far for them to go home every day, so everyone in my class has someone staying with them. It will be THE MOST FUN!! We’ve been writing sea-mails to get to know them.
Our teacher, Miss Carp, asked us to suggest ways we could make our visitors welcome. I was bubbling with ideas.
‘A parade,’ I said, ‘with music and a synchronised swimming display . . . and I could do a welcome speech . . .’
Miss Carp said that sounded nice but really she meant little things like being kind to them, and asking what food they liked, what games they liked to play and stuff like that.
‘I asked Melvin those things in my sea-mail,’ my friend Ozzie Octopus said. ‘Melvin’s a mudskipper. He likes mud. So I’ve made a mud corner in the shipwreck, to help him feel at home.’
‘Very thoughtful, Ozzie,’ Miss Carp said. Myrtle Turtle put her fin up.
‘My pen pal, Gloria Goby, likes painting and eating plankton,’ she said. ‘So Mum’s bought plankton pasties and paints.’
‘Excellent.’ Miss Carp beamed. ‘How about you, Darcy? What does your pen pal like?’
‘Um . . .’ I said. Luckily right then the bell rang. ‘Oh – I just remembered – I have to go to the library.’
I shot out of the classroom. Flippering fishsticks, I wished I’d thought to ask Coral all those things! I was so busy telling her about me that I didn’t think to ask about her!
In the library Miss Angler, the librarian, was sitting at her desk polishing her teeth. Miss Angler’s teeth are razor-sharp and she is very strict, so I’m always very polite to her.
‘Excuse me, Miss, and sorry to bother you but do you have any books about crabs?’ I said, nervously.
Miss Angler glared at me, then swam off between the shelves, her little light dangling in front of her. A few minutes later she came back with a book. There was a scary-looking crab on the cover.
‘Attack
