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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has taken time out of his busy
schedule to indulge his imagination by penning a children's book featuring his
family pets, a spokeswoman said Sunday.
Rudd -- who is so famed for his jet-setting work ethic he has been
nicknamed "Kevin 707" by the local press -- wrote the book with Australian
children's television star Rhys Muldoon, his spokeswoman told reporters.
Titled "Jasper and Abby and the Great Australia Day Kerfuffle", the book
follows Rudd's pet cat and dog on an adventure through the grounds of The Lodge,
his family's official residence in the capital, Canberra.
"It's delightful, it's actually very very cute, even cuter than one might
imagine," the spokeswoman said.
"Jasper in the flesh is very hoity-toity, in a good cat way, and Abby's
gorgeous. They're old family pets, much beloved."
The book will be released on the January 26 Australia Day holiday, which
commemorates the landing of the first fleet on Australian shores in 1788. Some
profits from the sale of the book will go to children's charities, the
spokeswoman said.
The Mandarin-speaking former diplomat Rudd jokingly told the Sunday
Telegraph newspaper he had wanted to beat his novelist daughter Jessica into
print, and it "wasn't the most demanding" text he had ever worked on.
"It's good to put a more human face on them," he said of his much-loved
pets, who he claimed to have interviewed for the story with Muldoon.
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发表于 2016-7-10 17:42:49