engines. Weâre ready to go back home!â
âFirst stop, Pluto Springs!â grinned Teggs.
âOh, I do like a happy ending,â cried Arx.
âMe too,â said Gipsy, as she gave Prince Shelly a hug.
âAnd the really great thing about one mission ending is that a new mission is never far behind,â said Teggs, beaming round at his fine crew.
âWhatever it is â I hope itâs just as
egg-citing
as this one!â
END
About the Author
Born in 1971, Steve Cole spent a happy childhood in rural Bedfordshire being loud and aspiring to amuse. He liked books, and so went to the University of East Anglia to read more of them. Later on he started writing them too, with titles ranging from pre-school poetry to Young Adult thrillers (with more TV and film tie-ins than he cares to admit to along the way). In other careers he has been the editor of Noddy magazine, the voice of a Dalek and an editor of fiction and nonfiction book titles for various publishers.
ALSO BY STEVE COLE:
Read all the adventures of Teggs, Gipsy, Arx and Iggy!
#1 Riddle of the Raptors
#2 The Hatching Horror
#3 The Seas of Doom
#4 The Mind-Swap Menace
#5 The Skies of Fear
#6 The Space Ghosts
#7 Day of the Dino-Droids
#8 The Terror-Bird Trap
#9 The Planet of Peril
#10 The Star Pirates
#11 The Claws of Christmas
#12 The Sun-Snatchers
#13 Revenge of the Fang
#14 The Carnivore Curse
#15 The Dreams of Dread
#16 The Robot Raiders
#17 The Twist of Time
#18 The Sabre-Tooth Secret
#19 The Forest of Evil
#20 Earth Attack!
#21 The T. Rex Invasion
#22 The Castle of Frankensaur
Read all the adventures of Teggs, Blink and Dutch at the Astrosaurs Academy!
#1 Destination: Danger!
#2 Contest Carnage!
#3 Terror Underground!
#4 Jungle Horror!
#5 Deadly Drama!
#6 Christmas Crisis!
#7 Volcano Invaders!
#8 Space Kidnap!
Meet the time-travelling cows!
#1 The Ter-moo-nators
#2 The Moo-myâs Curse
#3 The Roman Moo-stery
#4 The Wild West Moo-nster
#5 World War Moo
#6 The Battle for Christmoos
#7 The Pirate Moo-tiny
#8 The Moo-gic of Merlin
#9 The Victorian Moo-ders
#10 The Moo-lympic Games
#11 First Cows on the Moon
#12 The Viking Emoo-gency
If you canât take the slime, donât do the crime!
#1 The Fearsome Fists
#2 The Toxic Teeth
#3 The Cyber-Poos
#4 The Supernatural Squid
#5 The Killer Socks
#6 The Last-Chance Chicken
#7 The Alligator Army
#8 The Conquering Conks
Visit www.stevecolebooks.co.uk for fun, games, jokes, to meet the characters and much, much more!
THE HATCHING HORROR
AN RHCB DIGITAL EBOOK 978 1 448 17347 1
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Text copyright © Steve Cole, 2005
Cover illustration by Dynamo Design © Random House Childrenâs Books, 2010
Interior illustrations copyright © Charlie Fowkes, 2005
First Published in Great Britain
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