Matt Haig

Evie in the Jungle


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      CELEBRATE STORIES. LOVE READING.

      This book has been specially created and published to celebrate World Book Day. World Book Day is a charity funded by publishers and booksellers in the UK and Ireland. Our mission is to offer every child and young person the opportunity to read and love books by giving you the chance to have a book of your own. To find out more, and for loads of fun activities and reading recommendations to help you to keep reading, visit worldbookday.com

      World Book Day in the UK and Ireland is also made possible by generous sponsorship from National Book Tokens and support from authors and illustrators.

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      First published in Great Britain in 2020

      by Canongate Books Ltd,

      14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

       canongate.co.uk

      This digital edition first published in 2020 by Canongate Books

      Copyright © Matt Haig, 2020

      Illustrations copyright © Emily Gravett, 2020

      Extract from Evie and the Animals

      Copyright © Matt Haig, 2019

      Illustrations copyright © Emily Gravett, 2019

      The right of Matt Haig and Emily Gravett to be identified as the author and illustrator of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

       British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 1 83885 075 3

      eISBN 978 1 83885 077 7

      Typeset in Bembo by

      Palimpsest Book Production Ltd, Falkirk, Stirlingshire

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      Contents

       Evie the Superstar

       A Big and Dangerous Place

       Riding the River

       The Pink Dolphins of Peru

       The Incredibly Daring Rescue

       A Sloth Called Ah

       A Very Grumpy Parrot

       The Tingle in Evie’s Head That Was the Start of a Brilliant Idea

       Four Mosquitoes and a Poison Dart Frog

       An Interview with a Jaguar

       Evie Saves the Jungle

       Character fact files

       The Snake and the Frog

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      Evie Navarro opened the front door and saw a crowd of photographers and journalists.

      ‘EVIE! EVIE! CAN WE ASK A FEW QUESTIONS?’

      ‘EVIE! WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE FAMOUS?’

      ‘EVIE! HERE’S A DOG! CAN YOU READ ITS THOUGHTS?’

      Evie stood there feeling dizzy and lightheaded. ‘Um, um . . . I’m sorry – I’ve got to go.’

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      Evie was a superstar.

      That’s what her best friend Ramesh said.

      ‘You are a superstar,’ he had told her the previous Tuesday, while eating a hummus and falafel sandwich on their favourite bench at Lofting High.

      But she wasn’t really. Well, Evie didn’t think so. She wasn’t a celeb or anything.

      It was just that a lot of people had heard of her.

      She had been in newspapers, and on TV. She had been on the cover of the world-famous Nature magazine, and she had over 200,000 followers on Instagram, even though she had only ever posted two photos (one of a sunset and one of an endangered leatherback sea turtle). And every morning the crowd of journalists at her door grew bigger.

      The reason for all this fame and unwanted attention was because Evie had a special talent.

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      The talent now had an official name, given by scientists.

      Inter-species two-way telepathic animal communication.

      Or, to put it another way, she could talk to animals. With her mind.

      She heard what animals were thinking and could chat to them without even moving her lips.

      And though she had kept