Author(s): Jack Lasenby

New Zealand titles - children

Winner of the New Zealand Post Book Awards, Junior Fiction Award 2005. AUNT EFFIE is restless. She and her 26 nieces and nephews are off again in the scow Margery Daw  on a treasure hunt across the pirate-infested waterways north of Auckland. However boat and crew become marvellously sidetracked: the scow is converted into a mobile village for cross-country travel; a hot-pool swim makes the little ones go bendy; the race between Banana BobÂs Model T Ford and ÂeverybodyÂs uncle ChrisÂs Stanley Steamer is fraught with high-jinx and skulduggery.
Meanwhile back in Auckland One Tree Hill has sprung a leak and Rangitoto Island is sinking while the Prime Minister gambles away the nationÂs taxes in the Casino Tower.
In this third Aunt Effie travelogue, Jack Lasenby creates another glorious, crazy kaleidoscope of time, place and circumstance.