The Fintastic Diary of Darcy Dolphin

By Sam Watkins and Vicky Barker

Clarice Bean meets Finding Dory in this laugh-out-loud diary set under the sea! 

Join Darcy Dolphin and friends for some underwater adventures! In the first book of the series, Darcy gets a pet, auditions for the role of Finderella in the school play, and solves a mystery on the reef.

The first in a brilliantly funny new illustrated series for boys and girls aged 6+. Perfect for fans of The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig, Pamela Butchart's Baby Aliens Got My Teacher and the Barry Loser series. 

Sam Watkins is the author of the Creature Teacher series with OUP, as well as Nick Knight: Super Sub! and Puss in Football Boots, both published by Franklin Watts. Creature Teacher was shortlisted for the Heart of Hawick Children’s Book Award in 2016. 

Vicky Barker is a freelance illustrator and designer based in Liverpool. She has illustrated the Fish Fingers series and The Catsup High Detective Agency for Catnip Books, and a series of activity books for bSmall.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Release date: Jan 12, 2017
• ISBN: 9781780317564

Sam Watkins

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First published in paperback in Great Britain 2017

by Egmont UK Limited

The Yellow Building, 1 Nicholas Road, London W11 4AN

Text copyright © 2017 Sam Watkins

Illustrations copyright © 2017 Vicky Barker

The moral rights of the author and illustrator have been asserted

First e-book edition 2017

ISBN 978 1 4052 8422 6

Ebook ISBN 978 1 7803 1756 4

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CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Week 1

My Perfect Pet

Week 2

My Dream Role

Week 3

The Rumbling Reef Mystery

DIVE INTO DARCY’S UNDERWATER WORLD!

MEET THE CHARACTERS

HOW TO DRAW A DOLPHIN

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Back series promotional page

(That means ‘hello’ in Dolphinese, in case whoever is reading this is not a dolphin.) Yesterday was my birthday and my aunt Ditzy gave me this book. She said it is a diary.

I’ve never had a diary so I didn’t really know what to write in it. Aunt Ditzy wrote a recipe book called Super Seaweed Smoothies, so she is a proper real-life author. I don’t think anyone has actually bought it yet, but anyway she knows loads about writing and books and stuff. I asked her what you should write in a diary and she said, ‘Oh, you know, feelings, that sort of thing.’ I said I would try to write down at least one feeling a day.

So here goes – my first diary! Does that make me a proper author too, I wonder? I hope some interesting things happen this week. I can’t write ‘Went to school, had fish fingers for tea’ every day, can I? That would make pretty boring reading. But I’m sure I’ll have loads of exciting stuff to write about – I can just feel it in the water . . .

WEEK 1:

My Perfect Pet

MONKFISHDAY

So this morning I was feeling excited!

This is because in assembly Mr Snapper, the head teacher, announced that there is going to be a pet show on Salmonsday! There will be loads of different competitions for different skills, so if your pet is super-good at something you can enter them into that competition and maybe win a prize!

Our teacher, Miss Carp, stuck a big poster up on the classroom wall. Everyone crowded round to have a look. It was covered in stars and in big sparkly letters it said ‘PETS FACTOR’. Underneath