Blinky Bill Breaks the Drought is a hardback picture book I wrote from an episode of the Blinky Bill series. I'm pretty sure I wrote the episode storyline-script as well. Blinky uses a trick Tom Sawyer employed to dupe Flap and Splodge into doing a job for him. It involves water, and soon the gang and Wombo are helping Mrs Rabbit with a new carrot patch. Danny Dingo pulls a swift one by stealing Mrs Rabbit's carrots and then selling them back to her, and then he and Daisy employ Flap to dig them a dam, which effectively diverts the creek. Greenpatch (and the rabbits' garden) is dry so it's up to Blinky and co to find out what's causing the drought and put a stop to it. These books are much longer than the average modern picture book, because they had to contain the stories from scripts which were, as I recall, something over twenty minutes.
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