Digby’s Moon Mission by Renee Price

Renee Price Anil Tortop

’ S Y B IG D

MOON

MISSION

For Leroy – my very own Digby Fixit

Create It Kids www.createitkids.com.au First Published in Australia in 2014 © 2014 Renee Price Written by Renee Price Illustrated by Anil Tortop Designed by Ozan Tortop www.tadaabook.com

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication Entry Creator: Price, Renee L. A., Author Title: Digby’s moon mission / Renee Price; illustrated by, Anil Tortop.

ISBN: 9780646927718 (paperback) Target Audience: For Children Subjects: Moon - Fiction / Children’s Stories Other Authors/Contributors: Tortop, Anil, illustrator Dewey Number: A823.4

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It surely will, mother dear.

We’re off to m

eet the moon

!

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Here, we go!

The days and nights passed by.

Digby checked the moon’s progress with his trusty measuring-ta

pe.

My nearest, dearest and wonderful family; young and old, big and small.

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Thank you.

One night, Digby Fixit wakes to find his room

in too much darkness!

Discovering the moon in a frightful state,

he plans a clever mission to bring back the light of night.

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