Summer at Drought Palace (2008 Post 302)
Summer
at Drought Palace is one of my reading scheme titles. The theme was water
conservation. I always try to make "theme" books like this one
entertaining, so meet Alinda, Emby and Rollo Cranberry, whose mum has gone
to China on a cultural exchange and whose dad takes them to Grey Bluff Lake for
a holiday. All does not go according to plan, as drought means the shacks at
Grey Bluff Lake are on restricted water. No long showers, the toilet doesn't
flush and hair has to be washed in a bucket. Emby and Rollo enjoy a contest to
use the least water, Dad goes fishing and teenaged Alinda suffers withdrawal
from her mobile (no service) and all her general comforts. The family meets Amanda Barton-Boote, who has a drought-proof garden. Her advice fascinates Emby, and comes in very useful when they return home (full of plans for long hot showers) and discover - guess what? - water restrictions!
Summer
at Drought Palace is one of my reading scheme titles. The theme was water
conservation. I always try to make "theme" books like this one
entertaining, so meet Alinda, Emby and Rollo Cranberry, whose mum has gone
to China on a cultural exchange and whose dad takes them to Grey Bluff Lake for
a holiday. All does not go according to plan, as drought means the shacks at
Grey Bluff Lake are on restricted water. No long showers, the toilet doesn't
flush and hair has to be washed in a bucket. Emby and Rollo enjoy a contest to
use the least water, Dad goes fishing and teenaged Alinda suffers withdrawal
from her mobile (no service) and all her general comforts. The family meets Amanda Barton-Boote, who has a drought-proof garden. Her advice fascinates Emby, and comes in very useful when they return home (full of plans for long hot showers) and discover - guess what? - water restrictions!
I think I named the Cranberry family after a band my daughter liked, and I based the weird landscape around Grey Bluff Lake on the Great Lake in Tasmania. Amanda Barton-Boote, in her younger days, was a character in Timothy Whuffenpuffen-Whippersnapper, (Post 72).
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