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Hi, welcome to Kid Stuff.
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Yesterday was Smile for Life Day and I bought this badge to help raise money for the anti-drug
abuse education.
Pretty good too, I reckon.
Today on the show we have some great cartoons.
Shaun Sheep will be paying another visit, plus we'll be telling you all about our new
Simpsons competition.
But right now let's have a look at Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Oh my dear Albert, what big teeth you have.
Oh, I better do it, you with Jordan.
Ah!
Help!
Lucky, help me, help me!
What?
What's wrong?
It's Alvin Osaurus, he's gonna eat me in this book here.
Help!
What are you looking at?
Oh, it's the Collins Dinosaur Atlas.
You're getting scared of a picture, Shaun.
Oh, well it's all about scary dinosaurs.
The Alvin Osaurus, come on.
Yeah, they're scary dinosaurs and they wandered the Earth 220 million years ago.
Yeah, your big teeth, hasn't he?
Yeah, and scaly skin and they laid eggs.
Yeah, do you want to see my favourite?
Yeah.
Okay, I'll show you my favourite in the whole world, the dinosaur.
Is it so frightening?
The Tyrannosaurus, that one there.
And he can run over 30 kilometres an hour.
Really?
Yeah, he's chasing his prey.
Be it little woollen sheep or whatever.
Not even blue sheep could ride a bike that fast, you know.
Funny, I don't see many blue sheep ride a bike but I'm sure they can ride pretty quick.
It looks pretty funny actually.
Can I ask you a question?
Sure.
Um, see Alvin Osaurus.
Yeah?
Do you think his middle name is O for Owen or something?
No, well, I don't know.
Maybe they're Irish, Osaurus.
Oh yeah.
O'Reilly.
Yeah.
Maybe.
O'Sheep.
O'Sheep.
Yeah.
O'Shannessy.
Is that true?
No, I don't know if it's true or not but it sounds good.
But um, dinosaur, they're all O'saurus so maybe you get Albert Osaurus because they're
all called dinosaurs.
Oh, that's right.
You're so smart, Mocky.
Now tell me, is there a sheep-asaurus?
Um, no, there's no sheep-asaurus.
There's a lam-asaurus but I don't think there would have been any wooly sheep around then.
No.
We don't lay eggs anyway.
What about muppet- muppet-asaurus?
Oh yeah, are there any muppet-asauruses?
No, I don't think there were but they sure were around in the caveman days.
Have a look at this.
With me now is Victor Kelleher.
He's the author of this book, Del Del, which you can see there.
Now Victor, you um, you write fantasy books.
Most of your kids' books are fantasy books.
That's right.
Did they come from a strong imaginary life as a kid?
Um, I think so, yes, but authors really never grow up.
I think they have to keep their fantasy life.
They stay daydreamers all their lives.
Right, and so you still are very much so.
Yes, very much.
Yeah, and it's sort of like Sam in this book where he sort of changes over, doesn't he?
He spends a lot of time.
He does indeed, with terrible results of course.
Yes, yes, of course.
So can you tell us a bit about Del Del?
Yes, the original idea came from an American cousin of mine.
I was in the States visiting them and she told me about her little brother when he was
very small and things were a bit bad in the family.
He used to escape by going into the cupboard.
He'd stay in there for ten minutes and when he came out he'd be somebody else.
And I thought what a great idea for a book, you know, somebody goes into a cupboard and
they come out near someone else and who are they?
Oh right.
And then that's really what, in a sense, the book is about.
Who is this person who comes out of the cupboard?
Oh fantastic.
So what age group did you write this book for?
I write actually books for anybody who wants to read them and most of my books are read
by a very larger age range.
Right.
And was this book something different for you to do?
It was different in the sense that although it has a big fantasy element in it, it's set
in Sydney today and deals with present day people.
And I just, there's this one part in this book, if I can find it, it should be here
somewhere.
Oh I can't find it.
But it's...