Alix Georgia Book 5: Slomococco the Lazy Sloth

By Brenda Wardle

Ethan returns from school one day to find a brown, slimy, clawed creature, hanging upside down from a tree in his front yard. His mom, Claudine, tells him that the creature was the pet he had asked for. Ethan is horrified at the sluggish pace at which the creature moves. He feels sick just hearing it eats its own poo and he decides to take action so that it can be sent packing. He sneaks to his bedroom and dials a society for abandoned animals, telling them that there is a weird-looking creature which has ticks and is covered in some greenish goo, dangling from a tree in his front yard. He asks them to hurry and to send it packing, back to the jungle where it appears to belong. When a man asks for its name, Ethan names it - 'Slomococco, the Lazy Sloth'. After the sloth has been taken away, Ethan realizes that his real present had been hidden for him. His grandmother, Ruth, tells him that his mother had asked for the sloth to be dropped off as punishment for his failure to tow the line.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brenda Wardle
• Release date: Dec 8, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005504557

Brenda Wardle

Brenda Wardle is a South African Doctor of Laws student. She is a prolific author - essayist and poet. Wardle has published books on high profile criminal cases including 'To Kill a Fragile Rose: The State's Case Against Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius" to mention but a few. Her genres span poetry, children's books, fiction and non-fiction. Wardle is Chief Operations Officer at the Wardle College of Law and is a legal analyst of international repute having been interviewed on Sky News by Jeremy Thompson, BBC by Karin Giannone, Fox News by South African Correspondent, Paul Tilsey, SABC by Dumile Mateza. Between 1st January 2017 and 8th April 2017 Wardle has published 15 titles. On the 1st May 2017 she will be publishing her latest book, The Verdict: The Legal Trials and Tribulations of President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (As Politics and the Law, Converge).https://t.co/tWXyidMl4y

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