The Floods: The Great Outdoors

It isn't just humans who need time off. Wizards do too - and after all the wild adventures the Floods have been through, two weeks at the seaside with their friends the Hulberts is exactly what they all need. Of course, nothing goes quite the way they planned. After winning the sandcastle competition, turning a really bad magician into an international sensation and helping the circus animals get their lives back, the Floods have no time to relax before an earthquake deep in the ocean floor releases their greatest enemy . . .

Colin Thompson has received several awards, including an Aurealis Award for the novel How to Live Forever and the CBC Picture Book of the Year for The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley. He is also the author of The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness and Free to a Good Home. He has been short-listed for many other awards, including the Astrid Lindgren Award—the most prestigious children's literature prize in the world.