Battering Rams

Wicked! #2

by Paul Jennings, Morris Gleitzman

Dawn and Rory find their parents' car wrecked with blood-stained seats, They begin to panic - was it the slobberers? Will Dawn and Rory be next on the menu?

Genres: Fiction, Childrens, Humor

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Paul Jennings was born in Heston near London, and at the age of 6 emigrated to Melbourne, Australia on a boat. He was on the boat for 5 weeks with his family. He attended Bentleigh West Primary School and Caulfield Grammar School.

After graduating from school, he went to Frankston Teachers College (now part of Monash University) and became a teacher. He taught students at Frankston State School, Kangaroo Flat State School, the Turana Youth Training Centre, and the Royal Children's Hospital State School in Mount Eliza. He later went on to study at the Lincoln Institute of Health Science (now part of LaTrobe University) and became a speech pathologist, then worked as a Lecturer in Special Education at Burwood State College (now part of Deakin University). In 1979 he became Senior Lecturer in Language and Literature at Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education (now part of Deakin University).

In 1985, Jennings' first book of short stories, Unreal! was published, during which he worked as a lecturer and wrote part-time; in 1989, he made the decision to devote his full time to writing. Many of his short stories, published between 1985 and 1991, were also adapted into the first and second series of the popular Australian television show Round the Twist.

Winner of the Dromkeen Medal (2000).

Reviews

[Ben · Rating 4 out of 5]

probably should have started from the beginning of the series. took me until two-thirds of the way in to realise that the main character / narrator alternated every chapter...

[Redfox5 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I remember buying this book at one of those school book fairs. I have a feeling the £1 price tag must of had something to do with it because why else would I have brought the second one instead of the first? I remember reading this and not liking it. But couldn't remember anything else. Actually enjoyed it more reading it as an adult although this is really a book that needs to be read in order. It follows off straight from the last one and took me a little while to figure out who was who and what was going on. I liked the bus scene best with everything going back in time. I'm vaguely interested in what happens next but not enough to hunt down the rest of the books.

[s e n t i m e n t a l i t i e s olittlebear · Rating 2 out of 5]

A bit more enjoyable as I rather like sheep and the sheep aspect was entertaining. Slugs on the other hand are creepy without being of massive proportions and carnivorous.