About the Book:

George is being bullied at school and feels that the only way to overcome this is by running away from home and school.   His quest is to find something within himself, but he’s not sure what it is. While taking a drink of cooling water at a creek, he finds a strange red egg which he puts into his backpack.

The path he takes leads him to be taken in by a local farmer and his wife, who try to help him overcome his fears. George feels that his trust in the couple is misplaced when he overhears a phone conversation to his parents and so he runs away again.

This time he encounters a woman who owns a circus who asks George to stay for a while. By now the red egg has hatched and a strange lizard-like animal has emerged. With the help of the circus owner and one of her assistants, George manages   to train the animal to do tricks that would be valuable to the circus, and help George seek that “special something inside.”

About the Author:

Thomas Saunders was born in 1920 in Cardiff, Wales. He left Primary School aged fourteen and migrated to Australia aged nineteen.

He enlisted in the Australian Army at the age of twenty and was discharged   a Corporal in 1945. He married his girlfriend; Nancy in 1947. He trained as a Primary School teacher and Thomas progressed to the role of Principle when ill health forced his retirement in 1975.

He then devoted his time to writing for children. Thomas has six children, one of whom, Jane, illustrated this book. He now lived in a small bay-side town in south-east Victoria, on Port Phillip Bay.