Emily Eyefinger and the Secret from the Sea by Duncan Ball Page A

the talented team who not only make Emily Eyefinger possible but who keep her flying high in the charts: Craig Smith, Anne Reilly, Barbara Pepworth, Lisa Berryman, Shona Martyn, Yvonne Fillery, Graeme Jones, Barbara Mobbs, Jill Quin and a host of others slaving selflessly in the dank dungeons of HarperCollins Castle.

About the Author
    Duncan Ball is the author of many popular children’s books including a series of books about Australia’s only talking dog, Selby. His books have won and been shortlisted for many prizes, most of them voted by children. In 2011, the Monkey Baa Theatre Company turned Emily Eyefinger into a play that was performed around Australia. The play will tour Australia again in 2013. He and his wife live in Sydney in a terrace house with their cat.
    Duncan tells the following story: ‘Long ago in a second grade class at Coffs Harbour Primary School, a very clever teacher asked her class where they would like to have an extra eye. When they’d finished giving their answers, the teacher said, “Think of all you could do if you were born with an eye on the end of your finger. You could look behind you, and peek around corners, and there’s no end to the fun you could have.” The teacher’s name is now lost from memory but one of her second graders, Jill Quin, grew up and is now my wife. One day on a bushwalk she told me this story and that’s when Emily Eyefinger was born.’

By the Same Author
    Emily Eyefinger
    Emily Eyefinger, Secret Agent
    Emily Eyefinger and the Lost Treasure
    Emily Eyefinger and the Black Volcano
    Emily Eyefinger’s Alien Adventure
    Emily Eyefinger and the Devil Bones
    Emily Eyefinger and the Balloon Bandits
    Emily Eyefinger and the Ghost Ship
    Emily Eyefinger and the Puzzle in the Jungle
    Emily Eyefinger and the City in the Sky
    Piggott Place • Piggotts in Peril
    Selby’s Secret
    Selby Speaks
    Selby Screams
    Selby Supersnoop
    Selby Spacedog
    Selby Snowbound
    Selby Surfs
    Selby Snaps!
    Selby Splits
    Selby’s Stardom
    Selby Sorcerer
    Selby Scrambled
    Selby’s Shemozzle
    Selby Shattered
    Selby Santa
    Selby Sprung
    Selby’s Joke Book
    Selby’s Selection
    Selby’s Side-Splitting Joke Book
    The Joke’s on Selby
    The Case of the Graveyard Ghost and Other Mysteries
    The Case of the Vampire’s Wire and Other Mysteries
    My Sister has a Big Black Beard (poetry)
    My Dog’s a Scaredy-cat (picture book)
    Jeremy’s Tail (picture book)
    For more information about Duncan’s books, see the website at:
www.duncanball.com.au

Copyright
    Angus&Robertson
An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers , Australia
    First published in Australia in 2012
This edition published in 2012
by HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty Limited
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    Copyright © Duncan Ball 2012
Illustrations © Craig Smith 2012
    The right of Duncan Ball and Craig Smith to be identified as the author/illustrator of this work has been asserted by them under the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000 .
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    National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
    Ball, Duncan
    Emily Eyefinger and the secret from the sea /
    Duncan Ball; illustrated by Craig Smith.
    ISBN: 978 0 7322 9315 4 (pbk.)
    ISBN: 978 0 7304 9719 6 (epub)
    For primary school age.
    Eye – Juvenile fiction.
    Seas – Juvenile