Dr. Brenda Parkes has written many books for children as well as a professional book for teachers about shared reading. She has taught in New Zealand and Australia and spent twenty years as a teacher educator at Griffith University, Queensland.
Kakadu Jack is a parrot who causes havoc when going to the open air market with his little mistress, Molly Mack. He tastes and eats the fruit then drops some of it on the ground (like parrots do) and people slip and slide and fall. He tries banana, papaya, mango, grapes, and figs! The illustrations are hilarious.
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