"Up From Unda": Up & The Xmas Alien

By Mac Dyson

Up - the little flightless weka - likes to visit his human friends on the remote southern isle of Rakiura. However they can’t figure out each other’s language, so there is always an adventure to had in the misunderstanding. For children 8 to 10
In Book 3 of the series, Up restores the sparkle to Xmas at the Christian Allsorts Church. And nearly spoils his own!
Book 1: Up makes his very first human acquaintance - the Rev Dyson.
Book 2: Up gets caught up in some very magical dangers.
Book 4: Up has a most discombobulating interaction with music.
Book 5: Up tries to look after the sick and becomes an accidental fashion stylist.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mac Dyson
• Release date: Sep 7, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370191314

Mac Dyson

Mac Dyson likes playing with words and sounds. He writes books and makes music. He is a Kiwi by birth and nature, but after a sojourn in the UK as a musician, he now lives in the bustling metropolis of Sydney.His life has included stints as a TV Director, Pre-school Educator, Cleaner, University Lecturer but his favourite place to work is the theatre. He is particularly fond of Shakespeare - his favourite play being "Much Ado About Nothing". As a singer he loves John Dowland and Henry Purcell songs, and the works of Joni Mitchell, Prince, David Bowie, Bjork, and Aphex Twin.His life has been quite an adventure - perhaps why his books are on the weird side - but he has enjoyed a lot of it very much. Due mainly to a wonderful selection of 'human beans' that have journeyed with him. Thanks yous fellas.Kia kaha, Mac D x

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UP FROM UNDA

Book 3: UP and The Xmas Alien

by Mac Dyson

Copyright 2016 Mac Dyson

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Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Excerpts - from other books in the UP from Unda series

Te Reo Maori - useful words in the Maori Language

An Afterword - what was originally the Foreword in Book 1

Chapter 1

UP, the little brown Weka, was really very worried about his dear friend The Rev. Dyson, and her husband Skipper John. They were both behaving very strangely in the back passage of the Christian Allsorts Vicarage. Skipper John was swaying precariously on top of a ladder, flailing his arms about