International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2002

Pobby and Dingan live in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, the opal capital of Australia. They are friends with Kellyanne Williamson, the daughter of an opal miner, but only Kellyanne can see them. Pobby and Dingan are imaginary.
Ashmol Williamson, Kellyanne's brother, thinks his sister should grow up and stop being such a fruit loop. Until the day, that is, when Pobby and Dingan disappear, the same day that Ashmol and Kellyanne's father is accused of 'ratting' (poaching on someone else's land), the worst sin an opal miner can commit.
As Kellyanne, grief-stricken and suddenly, mysteriously ill, begins to fade away, Ashmol recruits the whole town in a search for Pobby and Dingan. In the end, however, he discovers that only he can find them, and that he can only find them if he too believes they are real.

Pobby and Dingan	Nominated ISBN: 0375411275	Find out more about the author on the following websites: Read an excerpt from Pobby and Dingan *Pobby and Dingan* reviewed *Bookreporter* review of Pobby and Dingan
by
Ben Rice

Nominated by:
Multnomah County Library, Portland, U.S.A

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