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|title=Albert of Adelaide
|author=Howard L Anderson
|borrow=Yes
|isbn=978-1846688409
|pages=304
|publisher=Serpent's Tail
|date=July 2012
|website=
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|summary=Its initial appearance as an Aussie [[The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame|The Wind in the Willows]] soon gives way to a tale for adults packed with entertainment, insight, pathos and a satirical punch. It's been called ''a ménage a trois that involved ''Watership Down'', ''True Grit'', and ''Mad Max'','' but on this evidence, that's a good thing.|cover=Anderson_Albert|aznuk=184668840X|aznus=184668840X
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Albert the Duck-Billed Platypus lives in an Adelaide zoo but knows there's more to life than this. There must be as he's heard the stories. Somewhere beyond the cages is Old Australia, a land of dreams where there are no zoos and no human captors, just animals who are free to govern themselves and live in perpetual peace and happiness. That's a world that Albert wants to be a part of and so he escapes, realising that for the first time in his short life his future is in his own webbed paws.
If this has whetted your appetite for another animal-based story set in Australia, we suggest [[Red Dog by Louis de Bernieres]].
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