'What section do you want to advertise in? Toys? Sporting Equipment? Computers and Video Games?'
The woman in the newspaper office took off her glasses and polished them on her cardigan.
'What are you advertising?'
'My Parents,' said Keith.
What does a kid do when his Mum and Dad are past it?
Get them into shape, decides Keith. And find them new partners.
It's a brilliant plan-but he'll need help. Morris Gleitzman grew up in England and came to Australia when he was sixteen. He was a frozen chicken thawer, sugar mill rolling stock unhooker, fashion industry trainee, student, department store Santa, TV producer, newspaper columnist and freelance screen-writer. Then in 1985 he wrote a novel for young people. Now he's a children's author.
