H Claire Fretwell
Dreadful Donks: And Other Stories
( March 12, 2020)
The donks are dawdling at an apple show until Herbie grabs ‘a cooker;’ but does NOT want to train as a morris dancer as
“all my food I had digested would be tipped upside down!”
Dex teaches Herbie that “he will NOT be a jack in the beans!”
The donks fall out about blue and purple apples in addition to seventy three types which DULL Dorothea struggles to quote and thus Dex is replaced as trainee.
Herbie thinks the Royals should be invited as he is apple judge and rates the Shrunken apples as losers.
Herbie is too passionate about blackberries that make him tick tock and although Fran falls as Daph has pricked her bum and they squabble –– Herbie views the lost blackberries in a paper bag the tragedy.
Daph makes a pass’ at Herbie as he has lost Fran and she is risking being in the gossip pages!!
Dex and Molly want to cause ‘a stir’ at the Shropshire Food Show and most of the donks assume fancy posts –– not wooden! Dinky is a baby food tester with her precious spirit level.
Herbie is on hunger STRIKE; but does WARN, the folks there is a diddle with his megaphone and a hullabaloo breaks out!!!!!
Herbie comes up trumps and is no longer dreadful carrying a sack and a hat box and how does Fran become Mrs. EEEENOCH?!
Read this book as fast as you can!!!