Tashi and the Mixed-up Monster

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Have you ever felt two different feelings at once? You like someone but you?re angry with them. You don't like someone but they make you laugh. It can make you feel all mixed-up! Well, one day we were looking up a word in the dictionary and we came across a drawing of a chimera. It was, the dictionary said, a mythical beast with the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the tail of a serpent. How mixed-up would that creature feel And what?s more, no one even agrees on how to say the poor thing?s name! We say kim-era but some say shi- mmera. What would you say? And what would happen, we wondered, if Tashi met such a mixed-up monster Of course, we knew why a Chimera might appear in Tashi's village ? Wise-as-an-Owl is having a lot of trouble leading his son Much-to-learn through the Book of Spells. His young pupil always wants to bound ahead. And see what happen now: Tashi and his friends are facing a terrible mixed-up monster whose roars are filling the sky. We even frightened ourselves ? but we had fun doing it! How mixed-up is that? ANNA FIENBERG Run, children said Wise-as-an-Owl. No, hide! Much-to-Learn has got it wrong again ? he's magicked up a hideous monster that?s bursting out of the garden workshop. And it's coming Tashi's way! Then everyone believes that Tashi killed Soh Meen's golden carp. The only way Tashi can clear his name is to find the real culprit. But how? Sometimes you have to sound brave to be brave?but clever Tashi always finds a way. About The Author Anna and Barbara Fienberg write the Tashi stories together, making up all kinds of daredevil adventures and tricky characters for him to face. Kim Gamble is one of Australia's favourite illustrators for children. Together Kim and Anna have made such wonderful books as The Magnificent Nose and Other Marvels, The Hottest Boy Who Ever Lived, the Tashi series, the Minton pictures books, Joseph, and a full colour picture book about their favourite adventurer, There once was a boy called Tashi.