Stay:The Last Dog in Antarctica (14 page)

Jesse Blackadder wanted to be a vet from the age of five, but ended up becoming a writer. She lives near an extinct volcano in northern New South Wales, and shares her very big garden with a water dragon called Kinky, a koala called Blinky, a python called Slinky and lots of other wild creatures. She was lucky enough to meet the real Stay when she went to Antarctica on an arts fellowship, and was involved in a dognapping incident at Davis Station.

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First published in Australia in 2013

This edition published in 2013

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Print data:

Blackadder, Jesse.

Stay : the last dog in Antarctica / Jesse Blackadder.

ISBN: 978 0 7333 3177 0 (pbk.)

ISBN: 978 1 7430 9819 6 (epub)

For ages 9–12.

Theft—Juvenile fiction.

Guide dogs—Statues—Tasmania—Hobart—Juvenile fiction.

Guide dogs—Statues—Antarctica—Juvenile fiction.

A823.4

Cover design by Christa Moffitt, Christabella Designs

Cover images supplied courtesy of Jesse Blackadder

Author photograph by Dave Hosken