We Didn't Mean To, Honest!

The Outfit #2

by Robert Swindells

WE DIDN'T MEAN TO, HONEST!'The Outfit ' # 2 in the seriesMiserable Rueben Kilchaffinch is going to fill in Froglet pond, and he won't let anything, or anyone, get in his way. The Outfit are desperate to save the pond and its wildlife and they plan to stop Kilchaffinch at any cost!"How can four kids and a dog stop that miserable old so-and-so filling in his own pond?" Mikey smiled. "We're The Outfit. There's nothing we can't do if we put our minds to it."Read all of The Outfit's thrilling adventures!THE SECRET OF WEEPING WOODWE DIDN'T MEAN TO - HONEST!THE GHOSTS OF GIVENHAM KEEPPERIL IN THE MISTTHE STRANGE TALE OF RAGGER BILLKIDNAP AT FENTON FARM. Age 7+

128 pages, Paperback

First published July 31, 1995

About the author

Robert Swindells was born in Bradford in 1939, the eldest of five children. He left the local Secondary Modern School at fifteen to work as a copy holder on the local newspaper. At seventeen he enlisted in the RAF and served for three years, two in Germany. On being discharged he worked as a clerk, engineer and printer until 1969 when he entered college to train as a teacher having obtained five 'O' levels at night-school. His first book 'When Darkness Comes' was written as a college thesis and published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1972. In 1980 he gave up teaching to write full time. He likes travelling and visits many schools each year, talking and reading stories to children. He is the secutatry of his local Peace Movement group. Brother in the Land is his first book for Oxford University Press. He is married with two grown-up daughters and lives in Bradford.

Author description taken from Brother in the Land.

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[Katy Lovejoy · Rating 4 out of 5]

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