Tashi Lost in the City

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A couple of years ago when my son was nine, he got lost. He and I and a crowd of thousands were at Darling Harbour, where there were bands playing and acrobats on stilts and people making passionate speeches. My son darted off to see a man juggling flaming swords and when he looked back, everything had changed. There were only strangers, masses of them, where I used to be. He was lost for just seven minutes. It was the worst seven minutes of his life, he tells me. It was the worst seven minutes of my life, I can tell you. And when I told my mother, his Grandma, she said the only reason it wasn?t the worst seven minutes of her life was because here we all were now sitting safely together on the sofa, eating her banana cake. But I saw that little smile as Grandma Barbara gazed fondly at her grandson. I?m very familiar with that smile; it means a story is brewing. Poor Tashi was in for another adventure, I knew it. He was going to get lost in a crowd. And not just for seven minutes. There would be acrobats, all right, and music, but there would be also some very, very bad men? ANNA FIENBERG I raced up and down the street looking in doorways and behind stalls. But there was no Grandma.? Tashi always has big adventures, like the time he?s lost in the city and has to escape from a mean man with a glass eye and a silver dagger?then, on the way home, Tashi and Grandma are kidnapped by brigands called Fearless and Ferocious. But clever Tashi always knows what to do ? stay calm, think hard and move fast. 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. Lucky he?s such a clever Tashi. 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.