BOOKED OUT Speakers Agency - Michael Panckeridge

AUTHOR

Michael Panckridge is a senior teacher at Geelong College and author of the renowned THE LEGENDS series, which is the culmination of many years of dedicated sports mania combined with an enthusiastic exploration of what boys and girls really want to read

As a sport enthusiast, Michael has played cricket, football, soccer, tennis hockey and golf. He enjoys collecting sporty things and has an impressive collection of football cards and cricket books. Apart from Sport, Michael loves reading and doing jigsaws, inventing games and going to films.

The theme for Michael's books has always been sport. THE LEGENDS series is big on sport. It is racy, very readable and written in a modern, topical style.

The premise of each book in the series is based around students who are competing to be the all round Legend of each sport at school. There are a mix of heroes and villains and plenty of strong and interesting characters. At the end of each book there are maps and quizzes and lots of factual statistics for each sport.

The LEGENDS SERIES published by Black Dog Books includes:

CHASING THE BREAK
AGAINST THE SPIN
DOWN THE LINE
CLEARING THE PACK
OVER THE WALL
ON THE BUZZER
RAISING THE BAR
THE FINAL LAP

Michael's newest series follows cricket-mad TOBY JONES, with the third installment, TOBY JONES AND THE MYSTERY OF THE TIME-TRAVEL TOUR recently released and two more expected in 2006! The first two titles are TOBY JONES AND THE MAGIC CRICKET ALMANACK and TOBY JONES AND THE SECRET OF THE MISSING SCORECARD.

Visit Michael's web site: www.michaelpanckridge.com.au!

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