Professor Pingwit and the Pungapeople

Pungapeople

by Barry Crump

In this fifth book of Barry Crump's popular series, the Pungapeople return to delight young readers with their mischievous ways. Settlers unknowingly build a town on 'Pungaland' and so the Pungapeople begin their antics to try to drive the settlers away. The town is thrown into chaos. The Mayor calls in Professor Pingwit to find the source of the problem.

Will Pingwit's scientific methods finally uncover the Pungapeople?

32 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2009

About the author

New Zealand author of semi-autobiographical comic novels based on his image as a rugged outdoors man.

Crump worked for many years as a government deer-culler in areas of New Zealand native forest (termed "the bush"). He wrote his first novel, A Good Keen Man, in 1960, based on his experiences as a government hunter. It was a fictional account of a young hunter who has to suffer through a series of hunting partners who are often unsuitable for the job. This novel became one of the most popular in New Zealand history,

Crump died in 1996 of a suspected aortic aneurysm. At the time of his death he was living at Ohauiti with his fifth wife, Maggie.

abridged from Wikipedia