The ANZAC Biscuit Man

Rattle your dags as fast as you can. You can’t dunk me, I’m the Anzac Biscuit Man!

Award-winning author Peter Millett and acclaimed cartoonist Shaun Yeo reimagine this classic tale with a uniquely local flavour!

One day, an old couple who love baking fresh biscuits discover a recipe for an ANZAC Biscuit Man.

Later that morning they hear a cry coming from the oven, `Let me out! Let me out! It’s hotter than a barbecue in here…’ They open their oven and out jumps the ANZAC Biscuit Man! Can anyone catch this cheeky, baked runaway?

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ReadNZ ~ The Anzac Biscuit Man is based on the classic tale of ‘The Gingerbread Man’ a baked biscuit that comes to life and runs away in the hope that he will not be eaten. I love how Peter Millet’s version has so many Kiwi colloquialisms, “cool bananas” “hunky-dory” and of course the catch cry of the Anzac biscuit man “Rattle your dags as fast as you can. You can’t dunk me, I’m the Anzac biscuit man”. Although ‘rattle your dags” is something I was quite familiar with (two parents who grew up in rural NZ) it was a phrase I had to explain to my young readers who were not at all familiar with the concept.

The illustrations are bold and expressive, with the action spreading across pages as the Anzac biscuit man makes his ill-fated journey. Shaun Yeo has included so much expression in the character’s faces and little details make the characters seem to leap off the page.

Included on the back page is a recipe for ANZAC biscuits, this is a wonderful addition and I’m sure many readers will be baking biscuits after reading the story.

A perfect read aloud, it is fun, action packed and loaded with laughs with a distinctly Kiwi feel to the story. Who could resist chiming in with the phrase “Rattle your dags as fast as you can”?!

Meet the Kiwi author

Find out more about award-winning New Zealand author Peter Millett on his author page.

Additional information

Dimensions 25 × 25 cm
Format

Softcover edition

ISBN

9781988538020

Page count

24

Published by

Bateman Books

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