Don't Kiss Girls and Other Silly Stories (20 page)

Acknowledgements

Penguin Books, Australia, gave Rossy a life and UQP brought him back from the dead. I'm grateful to both. Thanks especially to the team at UQP: Kristina, Michele, Cathy and Jo. You're professional book-makers with heart – I'd trust you with my baby any day. A big thank you to Peter Carnavas, who does his job so well with so little fuss. You're becoming my right
and
left-hand man. Thanks also to Karlee, Sophia, Liz and Cath for reading and providing advice on this manuscript. Because of you, many lame jokes are no longer in the book but only in my head.

First published 2014 by University of Queensland Press

PO Box 6042, St Lucia, Queensland 4067 Australia

www.uqp.com.au

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© Pat Flynn 2014

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Cover design by Jo Hunt

Illustrations by Peter Carnavas

Typeset in 12.5/18 pt Adobe Garamond by Post Pre-press Group, Brisbane

Printed in Australia by McPherson's Printing Group

Stories from this collection have appeared in the following books, some of them as earlier versions:
Don't Kiss Girls
(Penguin 2008);
Get Rich Quick
(Penguin 2009);
How to Get Dumped
(Penguin 2009).

Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

National Library of Australia

Flynn, Pat, 1968- author.

Don't kiss girls and other silly stories / Pat Flynn.

For primary school age.

Courtship – Juvenile fiction.

Interpersonal relations – Juvenile fiction.

Boys – Juvenile fiction.

ISBN 978 0 7022 5330 0 (pbk)

ISBN 978 0 7022 5443 7 (pdf)

ISBN 978 0 7022 5444 4 (epub)

ISBN 978 0 7022 5445 1 (kindle)

A823.4

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