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1y
Mosquito Advertising : The Parfizz Pitch
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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2010
Z1699472
2010
single work
children's fiction
children's
'Katie Crisp has talent, it's just that the report card hidden in her room doesn't show it. School's out for another year and Katie is set to spend the summer lazing under the sausage tree in the backyard of the only home she's ever known. So, when she discovers that Parfitt's Family Soft Drink Company is about to be taken over by a corporate giant, leaving her mum out of a job and them both out of a home, it's time to finally show everyone what she's made of.
With her nose for trouble and her eye for advertising, and a little help from some neighbourhood friends, Katie declares Mosquito Advertising open for business. Pocket money and creative thinking can stretch a long way when everything that means anything to you is about to be destroyed.' (From the publisher's website.)
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2y
Mosquito Advertising : The Blade Brief
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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2011
Z1788726
2011
single work
children's fiction
children's
'Katie is in trouble with the adults in her life. More trouble than she has ever been in before. Mosquito Advertising is taking up all her time and school seems boring and irrelevant. Who needs school when you're running your own advertising agency?
Katie promises she'll lift her game but things get complicated when Barry Sharp, billionaire owner of international airline Blade Air, offers Mosquito Advertising his account. Katie and her friends are flown to Sydney where everything seems too good to be true.
How can Katie keep such big news a secret from her mum? And what will she do when a local dog food company needs their help? Mosquito Advertising starts to crack under the strain as business gets in the way of friendship. Katie needs to work out what really matters if she is to save both.' (Publisher's blurb)
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3y
Mosquito Advertising : The Crunch Campaign
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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2012
Z1867264
2012
single work
children's fiction
children's
'An exciting middle-reader adventure about a modern neighbourhood gang with all the charm of the Famous Five.
Mosquito Advertising is home from New York when the shocking news breaks: the government is banning advertising for soft drinks. All the work they've done to save Parfizz has been for nothing!
Katie is furious. Bans don't work, everyone knows that, and while the other soft drink companies weasel their way around the new rules, Mosquito Advertising plots to re-write them.
Katie reckons the key is to make ads for fruit as cool as ads for fizzy drinks. It's a great idea - all they have to do is convince the Prime Minister. But great ideas aren't always enough, especially when you're also dealing with paying clients, a missing kid, moody friends, shadowy enemies and a family set to triple in size.
In this new adventure, the world's first kid-run advertising agency discovers that sometimes the most important thing to sell isn't a thing, it's an idea.' (Publisher's blurb)
