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Jun 23, 2016
When faced with family problems, you might fantasise about running away to join a carnival, but after his uncle cooks and cans his pet goldfish, orphan Stanley Potts actually goes through with it. Landing a job at the carnival's hook-a-duck stall, Stanley tries to fit in among the eccentric performers...until the day when Pancho Pirelli, the legendary piranha-proof man, changes Stanley's destiny by choosing him as an apprentice. Author David Almond and illustrator Oliver Jeffers are no strangers to the weird, and in The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas, they've created a silly yet heartfelt story that's sure to "tickle imaginations" (Publishers Weekly).