Kevin the Troll

Doug MacLeod

Penguin Group Australia, Apr 2, 2007 - Juvenile Fiction - 240 pages

He is crafty and cranky, mysterious and moody, and he wants children pie for his seven hundredth birthday. He is Kevin the Troll and he has his wicked little eye fixed on you . . .

Nearly all the trolls look up to him. Incredibly, by the end of this hilariously twisted adventure, you will too.

Besides some remarkable trolls and ingenious humans, you will meet a chocolate giant, thirteen angry ghosts and a psychic called Rendor, who only predicts the opposite of what will happen. Take Rendor’s word for it. You will absolutely hate this book.

About the author

Doug MacLeod is a Melbourne writer of books and TV. In 2008 the Australian Writers' Guild awarded him the Fred Parsons award for contribution to Australian comedy. (He has worked as a writer on shows such as Fast Forward and SeaChange, and as script editor on three seasons of Kath and Kim.) He also devised and co-wrote the animated series Dogstar, which has been screened all over the world. Doug received two Australian Writers' Guild awards for his scripts for series one, as well as the inaugural John Hinde award for science fiction. His best known book is Sister Madge's Book of Nuns, which started as a practical joke on a publisher. He left his full-time TV job in 2002 to focus on writing books for young adults. So far he has had seven novels published by Penguin. The most recent are The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher, a CBCA Honour Book in 2012 shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the Aurealis Awards, and The Shiny Guys, shortlisted for the 2013 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. One of his novels, The Clockwork Forest, was presented as a play by The Sydney Theatre Company in 2008, and in 2013 he wrote Margaret Fulton: Queen of the Dessert, a musical about the life of Margaret Fulton. dougmacleod.com.au/

Bibliographic information

• Title: Kevin the Troll
• Author: Doug MacLeod
• Publisher: Penguin Group Australia, 2007
• ISBN: 174228048X, 9781742280486
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic; Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories; Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction / General