Planet Perjink

Itchy Coo

by Susan Rennie, Dave Sutton

Kat is given a cyberdug called Doug for her birthday. But Doug is no mere toy - he is a real cyberdug and he's happy to take Kat on his fact-finding missions among the stars. Kat has just been gubbed at tennis by her next-door neighbour, who's just too good at everything. But then Doug wheechs her away to Planet Perjink, the neatest, cleanest planet in the universe. They meet one of the locals, Redd, who shows them around the Swankie Loch and teaches them how to play CometBa. Perhaps when she gets back home, Kat's tennis will have improved dramatically...Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink is the second book in the popular Planet series.

32 pages, Paperback

First published November 25, 2002

About the author

Susan Rennie is a writer, researcher and lexicographer. She was Editor of the Dictionary of the Scots Language and the Historical Thesaurus of Scots projects at the Universities of Dundee and Glasgow. She has worked on The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and Chambers Dictionary, and is the chief editor of the Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary. Her monograph on Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots (OUP, 2012) was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Research Book of the Year, and she recently discovered the lost manuscript of James Boswell's Scots dictionary, which she is currently editing for publication. Susan was also one of the co-founders of Itchy Coo Books and has written several books in Scots for children, including the award-winning Animal ABC and The Derk Isle, the first Scots translation of Tintin.