Extract - The Travelling Bookshop by Katrina Nannestad illustrated by Cheryl Orsini

‘I’m only six,’ says Nat, ‘and you told me to be quick.’ He’s right. I nod, then lick my fingers and rub them all over his face. ‘That’s disgusting!’ Nat moans. ‘I know.’ I sigh. ‘And it didn’t even work.’ I open the door and find three customers waiting. ‘Good morning!’ says a pretty blonde woman. ‘Hellooo!’ says a stocky man wearing overalls. ‘Greetings!’ snaps an old woman with a walking stick. They bustle up the steps and through the door. ‘Oooh, cosy,’ says the pretty blonde woman. ‘And how charming the way the bookshelves fit so snugly around the beds and the teensy-weensy kitchen.’

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