Chief Thunderstruck and the Big Bad Bear

By Karen Wallace and Helen Flook

Set in the Viking world of long boats, looting and grand adventure, The
Goose Pimple Bay Sagas relate the hilarious tales of a noble family with
a difference.


In the final book of the quartet, a message reaches Goose Pimple
Bay that Chief Thunderstruck is in
trouble. He's been trapped in a cave on an ice flow by a fierce
polar bear, who has a nasty glint in his eye when he looks at Chief
Thunderstruck's bearskin coat. Together Whiff Erik, Spike Carbuncle and
Fangtrude
sail off to the
rescue. But it's up to Fangtrude, being part wolverine, to save the
day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release date: May 24, 2012
• ISBN: 9781408152867

Karen Wallace

Karen Wallace is an award-winning author of children's books. Her first novel for older readers, Raspberries on the Yangtze (Simon & Schuster) was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. The first in her series for younger readers, The Crunchbone Castle Chronicles, published by A&C Black, was selected for the Summer Reading Challenge in 2006. The Goosepimple Bay Sagas was a World Book Day recommended read in 2008 and Li Fu's Great Aim was chosen for the recent Boys into Books promotion.

Book preview

Chief

Thunder Struck

and the

Big Bad Bear

Karen Wallace

Illustrated by Nigel Baines

CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Imprint

For the Colonel

Chapter One

Chief Thunderstruck pulled his furry hat down around his ears and tried to stop trembling. It didn’t work. He was frozen to the bone and his whole body was shaking like a jelly.

Just over a year ago, he and his wife, Ma Moosejaw, had left their home in Goose Pimple Bay and travelled north. They had been all over the place, and even though Ma Moosejaw hadn’t seen the white bear she had been hoping to find, they had been having such a good time, it didn’t seem to matter. Then, just as they were packing up to leave the cave they had been camping in, a big white bear had appeared.

At first they had been delighted. Especially Ma Moosejaw. But after a couple of days, it became clear that the bear was determined not to let them go.

Ma Moosejaw turned to her husband. Thunderstruck! she cried. What are we going to do? If this bear doesn’t leave soon, we’re going to starve to death. We’ll never get home, or see our sons Spike Carbuncle and Whiff Erik again. She put her head in her hands and groaned.

At the sound of her voice, a low, angry growl came from the mouth of the cave. The bear turned around and