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  Published by Allen & Unwin in 2018

  Text copyright © Kate Temple and Jol Temple 2018

  Illustrations copyright © Grace West 2018

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  Contents

  Also by Kate & Jol Temple

  Dear everyone,

  Dear Alice,

  Dear Jimmy,

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  Dear Ms Fennel and Mr Shufflebottom and the whole school and everyone who was at the fete,

  To whom it may concern,

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  Alice Toolie’s Unicorn Slime Recipe!

  CAPTAIN JIMMY COOK DISCOVERS THIRD GRADE

  ABOUT THE AUTHORS

  ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

  Dear everyone,

  My name is Alice Toolie.
You’ve probably already heard of me :)

  I’m famous on Youtootube for a seriously cute video I made with my mum about my eggcup schngrooodle-itzu, which is like a really rare kind of miniature dog that fits in an eggcup, awwww. You can only get one from this random island in Japan (but we got ours at Petz4You). My video already has 40 likes, but it could even be more by now, maybe 41 or 42, I haven’t checked today.

  But I’m sorry to say, THIS book is not about my schngrooodle-itzu :(

  It’s about a MASSIVE fight I had with this (really annoying) boy at school called Jimmy Cook. He calls himself Captain Jimmy Cook, but he is NOT actually a captain. He is just a kid. Basically, he did a really, really bad thing: HE READ MY DIARY! And the worst bit is, I got in trouble too, which is totally unfair because everyone knows diaries are PRIVATE (although I did write some not-nice things about him in it). To make us become friends, our teacher Ms Fennel made us write letters to each other as punishment. How. Bad. Is. That.

  But then something very mysterious happened :O I’m not even joking. It’s sooooo mysterious, I’ve actually been banned from talking about it by the teacher. But no-one said I couldn’t write about it! So here in this book I’ve put all the letters about exactly what happened.

  xooxxxxx oox x ooo xxxo xxxxxx

  Alice Toolie

  Dear Alice,

  I am supposed to tell you that I am very sorry that I read your diary.

  Like I told Ms Fennel, it wasn’t really my fault. Actually, it was sort of your fault for leaving it in the school library in the first place. I just thought it was a book about echidnas, since it had a picture of a baby echidna on the cover.

  Anyway, I’m sorry I read it because it was not good.

  Yours unhappily,

  Captain Jimmy Cook

  Dear Jimmy,

  Your apology is actually NOT accepted.

  It’s totally your fault for stealing my diary and reading it, which is against the law. You are always pretending to be so into the law and police and stuff, but you are actually a robber.

  Yours most unimpressed,

  Alice Toolie

  P.S. It wasn’t even a baby echidna, it was a hedgehog! Baby hedgehogs are like the cutest animal in the world, which is why I have a picture of one on MY diary. You should google it.

  Dear Alice,

  I can’t believe you just called me a robber. That is like the worst thing you could say to me. If we were in the olden days, like before the Titanic sank, when there were cavemen, our families would be at war because you said that.

  Like I told Ms Fennel, I wasn’t even interested in your diary. I was just looking for a book on echidnas because I’m planning a trip back in time to Australia in the ancient days to see the Giant Echidna, which is like a kind of dinosaur which apparently really did exist and was about 100 metres tall. How was I supposed to know that it wasn’t a book about echidnas anyway????

  Yours most fantastically,

  Captain Jimmy Cook

  P.S. I did google baby hedgehogs and they are very cute.

  Dear Jimmy,

  It said ALICE TOOLIE’S PRIVATE DIARY in big letters on the cover! It doesn’t even have a library sticker or one of those barcodes that the librarian scans, so how could it be a library book???

  Also you mentioned in your letter that you are planning on travelling back in time. That’s also impossible. I have to go now, because I have jazz ballet and I am the lead jellyfish :)

  Yours irritably,

  Alice Toolie

  Dear Alice,

  I know you said time travel was impossible, but it turns out you’re not quite right because I’m actually writing this letter to you from Ancient Egypt. It’s pretty great here. So far I’ve seen a few pyramids getting built and been invited to some cool pharaoh parties.

  Your jellyfish ballet sounds 50% interesting and 50% not. Got to go, I’m off to see a few mummies.

  Yours anciently,

  Captain Jimmy Cook

  Dear Jimmy,

  You are NOT in ancient Egypt, you are in class. I can see you with my own eyes and you are right here.

  I want you to know that I am not happy that Ms Fennel has made us penpals for the whole term just because you read my diary. It actually seems REALLY unfair, because you were the one who did the bad thing and now I’m being punished. And I like NEVER get in trouble :(

  Yours quite crossly,

  Alice Toolie

  Dear Alice,

  Writing to each other for a whole term does kind of suck. But the things you wrote about me in your diary were VERY mean and that’s why you’re in trouble too For the record:

  1. My captain’s hat is not fake. It came from a real sea captain I met once at a supermarket.

  2. I actually did discover a new planet (at least I’m pretty sure I did).

  3. I don’t have a tail.

  Yours in protest,

  Captain Jimmy Cook

  Alice and Jimmy,

  I’m glad to see you are writing to each other, but your letters should be more constructive. This penpal project is about finding out what you have in common and being more accepting of each other. I expect an improvement in the following letters.

  Ms Fennel.

  Dear Jimmy,

  I’m trying to think of things we have in common, but it’s really hard! :( I was thinking about it for AGES (at least two minutes) and couldn’t think of anything, but then suddenly I thought of three things we have in common all at once!

  1. We both have two arms.

  2. We both have two legs.

  3. We both have heads.

  I bet you can’t think of any!

  Yours troolie,

  Alice Toolie

  Dear Alice,

  Here’s one: we don’t want to be writing to each other for A WHOLE TERM!

  Anyway, here are three things I would rather do than write these letters:

  1. Tame a bat.

  2. Make a flag for a whole new country called JimmyLand.

  3. Swim in real jelly.

  Yours importantly,

  Captain Jimmy Cook

  Dear Jimmy,

  That is sooooo true, we do have that in common! :) Here are three things I would rather be doing:

  1. Making jewellery out of sparkly beads.

  2. Practising my dance routine (I’m getting sooo amazing at it!!!).

  3. Catching the ghost in the Level 2 toilets.

  Yours troolie,

  Alice Toolie

  P.S. I am going to sign all of my letters from now on with ‘Yours troolie’ because I’ve just realised it rhymes with Toolie, and I think it looks nice too :) :)

  DEAR ALICE,

  Who cares about this ‘Yours Troolie, Alice Toolie’ business …

  WHAT GHOST IN THE LEVEL 2 TOILETS?!?!?!?!?!?

  Yours keenly,

  Captain Jimmy Cook

  Dear Jimmy,

  You wouldn’t be interested.

  Yours troolie,

  Alice Toolie

  Dear Alice,

  Fine. But just so you know, ghosts aren’t real.

  Mummies, zombies and werewolves are totally real, but ghosts are fake. Also, if you’re wondering if the tooth fairy is real, it is … BUT you’ll be sad to know it’s not actually a sparkly little girl with wings and a wand. It’s actually this tiny old dude with a beard. I know this, because I caught him once. Basically, I set a trap for the tooth fairy after I lost my front tooth and BINGO. Caught him.

  At first, I saw this glowing thing that I was pretty sure was the tooth fairy, but it just turned out to be my glow-in-the-dark fidget spinner. But just as I was about to give up, the real tooth fairy turned up and I just grabbed him! I can tell you now, he was not happy. Also, he smelled a bit like bin juice. So the point is, yes to the tooth fairy, zombies, mummies and werewolves … but no to ghosts. Sorry.

  Yours knowledgeably,

  Captain Jimmy Cook

  Dear Jimmy,

  There IS a ghost in
the Level 2 toilets :O

  And it sings! Jenny Philpot said she saw it once—she heard the singing and so she checked if there was someone there, but there wasn’t! She even crouched down to see if there were any legs under the toilet doors, but no-one was there! But when she peeked through the gap, she saw an EYE staring back at her! Also, there was the smell of poo, which is disgusting and spooky!

  Yours troolie,

  Alice Toolie

  Dear Alice,

  Okay, that does actually sound like a real ghost. Since I’m a famous explorer, I might need to investigate.

  Yours expertly,

  Captain Jimmy Cook

  P.S. I don’t want to be mean, but those lollies that Lucas Terrazzo gave the class for his birthday looked great but boy they tasted terrible!

  Dear Jimmy,

  They were NOT lollies. They were decorative erasers. Also, I know you keep SAYING you’re a famous explorer, but actually, you’re just a kid. Kids aren’t famous explorers.

  Yours troolie,

  Alice Toolie

  Dear Alice,

  Kids can totally be famous explorers! I should know, because I am one. There’s actually been some pretty amazing discoveries made by kids, like lost cities, pirate treasure and giant earthworms. Anyway, it’s lucky for YOU that I AM a famous explorer, because if anyone is brave enough to catch this ghost, it will be me.

  I’m going to investigate. NOW.

  Yours bravely,

  Captain Jimmy Cook

  Dear Jimmy,

  I have absolutely never heard of kids discovering any of those things. I’m pretty sure that’s because you just made them up. ANYWAY, you can think what you like. I’ve already been famous three times:

  1. My Yootootube video about my eggcup schngrooodle-itzu has now been viewed 51 times.

  2. I won the talent contest at my grandma’s old people’s home for an amazing dance routine where I dressed as a glow-in-the-dark germ and showed how germs can get passed around if you don’t wash your hands (which I don’t think you do).