Dickie Larsen's Pumpkin & Other Stories

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Spike is a young boy in 1950s Australia surrounded by sprawling landscapes and a menagerie of animals. Together with his friends Leany and Riddy they do what all young boys in the bush do: make their own fun.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>From chooks in outhouses exploding trees and rats at the flicks to standing up to backyard bullies farewelling dear friends and making unexpected new ones </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Dickie Larsen's Pumpkin & Other Stories</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> traverses the passing of time documenting a life well lived and fondly remembered.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Laced with dry humour and typical understated Australian cadence </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Dickie Larsen's Pumpkin & Other Stories</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> invites readers to look back at life in a time gone by and delight in the charming stories of author Geoff Carr. </span></p>