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A delightful new picture book celebrating Christmas, from the team who created bestselling titles Diary of a Wombat' Pete the Sheep and Josephine Wants to Dance. A delightful new picture book celebrating Christmas, from the team who created bestselling titles Diary of a Wombat' Pete the Sheep and Josephine Wants to Dance.

Legend tells of The Clan of the Scorpion, four mighty meerkats who are armed to the teeth with ninja-know-how. They are sworn to protect the world from their longtime nemesis, the Ringmaster...The Clan of the Scorpion are escorting their mentor, Grandmaster One Eye, to a Kung Fu Grandmaster Meet deep in the mountains of Chile, when they are ambushed by a horde of enormous spiders - the Trained Tarantulas of Santiago! But the eight-legged creeps are a cunning diversion, and the Clan soon realise that Grandmaster One Eye has been katnapped! The Clan sets out to follow the attackers south, all the way to a colossal mountain fortress in icy Antarctica - but will they reach One Eye before the trail runs ...cold?

Truth or Busted Survival Skills takes popular notions and ideas about how to survive in urban and wilderness environments and examines where the ideas came from, how or why they have become well known, and finally whether they are really true or false! This title looks at statements like: 'You can drink your own wee to survive!' or 'Cows are more deadly than great white sharks'. Each statement is evaluated and then awarded a Truth or Busted stamp at the end of each entry.