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    Trolls on Hols
    Trolls on Hols
    Trolls on Hols
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    Trolls on Hols

    By Alan MacDonald and Mark Beech

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    It's summer and all of Ulrik's school friends seem to be going on something called 'holiday'. Mr and Mrs Troll investigate. Their neighbours, the Priddles have just bought a caravan, and after a muddled conversation, it seems the troll family have been invited to join them. But when they arrive at the campsite in Wales and the Priddles open the caravan to discover it full of trolls they don't seem very pleased. But this is the least of their worries, as stories of a wild Beast living on the moor nearby start to surface, and Ulrik finds himself helping to solve a hairy, scary local mystery.


    A very funny and brilliantly observed holiday mystery with the lovable Troll family and suffering Priddles.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateAug 1, 2011
    ISBN9781408819050
    Trolls on Hols
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    Alan MacDonald

    Alan MacDonald has written over 150 books, including the Devil's Trade and Axel Feinstein series for Scholastic, along with titles in the Dead Famous, Pickle Hill Primary and Double Take series. He is also a regular writer for the Oxford Reading Tree and has had picture books published by Little Tiger Press. Alan MacDonald started his working life in a travelling theatre company. In addition to writing and directing plays, Alan trained as a drama teacher. He has written stories and dramas for the BBC (both television and radio), as well as many children's books. Alan lives in Nottingham.

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      Trolls on Hols - Alan MacDonald

      Trolls on Hols

      by Alan MacDonald

      illustrations by Mark Beech

      For the brilliant Kate Shaw

      who believed in trolls – A.M.

      To my sister Janet – M.B.

      Contents

      Going Vestless

      The Joy of Caravans

      Paradise View

      Painting Sheep

      Swimming Lessons

      A Darksome Night

      A Bit of a Temper

      Hide and Sneak

      Missing Ulrik

      Troll in the Hole

      Beastly!

      Wish you were Here!

      Footnote

      Also by the Author

      Going Vestless

      It was a hot, sunny day at the start of the summer. At Number 10 Mountain View the Trolls were out in their back garden. Mrs Troll lazed in a deckchair, leafing through a magazine while she cooled her hairy feet in a bowl of water. Her husband had stripped off his vest and stood knee-deep in a hole that he was digging with his bare hands. Every now and then showers of earth flew in all directions. Ulrik lolled on the grass, staring at the sky. It was only three days since he had broken up from school and he had nothing to do.

      ‘Mum,’ he said.

      ‘Yes, my ugglesome?’

      ‘When are we going on holidays?’

      ‘We are on holidays.’

      ‘Yes, but I mean real holidays. Where you go somewhere.’

      Mr Troll paused to wipe away a drip of sweat that hung from his snout. ‘We could go to that stinksome hole under the high street, we haven’t been there for weeks.’

      Ulrik shook his head. ‘That’s a subway, Dad. I mean a proper holidays!’

      Mr Troll climbed out of his hole and wiped his hands on his gigantic belly. He looked at his wife in bemusement. ‘What the bogles is he talking about?’

      ‘Ulrik’s right. It’s in my magazine,’ said Mrs Troll. ‘That’s what peeples do in summer – go on their holidays.’

      ‘Well, where is it then?’ asked Mr Troll.

      ‘What?’

      ‘This holidays you want to go on.’

      ‘How should I know? I’ve never gone on it!’

      ‘Warren says it’s the seasides,’ explained Ulrik. ‘You take a towel and you have to lie on it till you get really hot, then you tromp into the sea to cool down.’

      Mr Troll snorted. ‘Makes no sense. Why get all hot and blethered just so you can get cold again? Anyway, the sea is for fishes. Trolls don’t belong in the sea. Caves and forests – that’s where trolls live.’

      ‘And houses,’ Ulrik pointed out. ‘We live in a house.’

      ‘Yes, well, houses as well,’ agreed Mr Troll. ‘Caves and forests and houses.’

      ‘But couldn’t we go on a holidays, Dad? We’ve never been!’

      Mrs Troll lifted her feet out of the bowl and waggled her toes.

      ‘It might be nice, Eggy. Why don’t we?’

      ‘But I’ve just started making a piddling pool!’ objected Mr Troll, pointing at the muddy hole he had dug.

      ‘You can finish it when we come back.’

      ‘Please, Dad!’ begged Ulrik. ‘Can we?’

      Mr Troll sighed and picked up his vest. It was covered in dirt but he didn’t mind since it was pretty filthy in the first place. ‘We’ll see,’ he said. He studied the cover of Mrs Troll’s magazine, which showed a sandy beach crowded with hundreds of people who seemed to be wearing only their pants.

      ‘Hmm,’ he said. ‘So how do you get to this seasides?’

      Ulrik didn’t know, he’d never been to the sea. In fact, he’d never been much further than the high street. He’d been to Troll Mountain, of course – that’s where they used to live before they moved to Biddlesden – but there was no sea back home, only mountains, forests and grey mist. He didn’t know how far it was to the seasides. Could you walk there or did you have to catch a bus?

      Mrs Troll had been thinking. ‘What about that shop on the high street, Eggy? The Trouble Agents. I’m sure they do holidays.’

      Mr Troll looked puzzled. ‘You want to stay in a shop?’

      ‘No,’ said Mrs Troll. ‘You ask the Trouble Agent and he finds you a holidays. It’s like the supermarket only without the cornflakes.’

      ‘Oh,’ said Mr Troll. ‘Well, if you want we can try it tomorrow.’

      Next door Mrs Priddle stared out of her kitchen window while she chopped up carrots with more force than was strictly necessary.

      ‘Look at him!’ she tutted. ‘It’s disgusting!’

      ‘What is?’ asked her son Warren, hurrying over to look.

      ‘That Mr Troll. Parading around in nothing but a tiny pair of shorts. As if I want to see that before my supper!’

      ‘What’s wrong with it? Dad sometimes wears shorts,’ Warren pointed out.

      ‘Yes, but he’s not a troll. Look at the size

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