David Baddiel: The Taylor TurboChaser

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2019

Published in this ebook edition in 2019

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Ebook Edition © October 2019 ISBN: 9780008334185

Version: 2019-09-26

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2019 Published in this ebook edition in 2019 HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF The HarperCollins Children’s Books website address is www.harpercollins.co.uk Text copyright © David Baddiel 2019 Cover and interior illustrations copyright © Steven Lenton 2019 Cover design copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd David Baddiel and Steven Lenton assert the moral right to be identified as the author and illustrator of the work respectively. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook onscreen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780008334154 Ebook Edition © October 2019 ISBN: 9780008334185 Version: 2019-09-26

Dedication

The Bit Before the Beginning

Chapter 1: This story begins

Chapter 2: Not a car

Chapter 3: The Whiter-Tooth-Whiz 503

Chapter 4: “Fun”!

Chapter 5: NEEEEEWOOOOOWWWW

Chapter 6: Easier than the Hulk

Chapter 7: Better than ALL my other inventions

Chapter 8: Upside-down fish tanks

Chapter 9: Do you want to go faster?

Chapter 10: Who taught you to do that?

Chapter 11: A dip in her stomach

Chapter 12: Dank meme

Chapter 13: Click!

Chapter 14: Quite a pill

Chapter 15: The photo

Chapter 16: Let me get this straight

Chapter 17: Oh. My. Days.

Chapter 18: So jokes

Chapter 19: Like someone torturing a hundred bats

Chapter 20: Trowch i’r chwith

Chapter 21: That’s nice

Chapter 22: Something you might see in a cartoon

Chapter 23: Road closed

Chapter 24: APB

Chapter 25: Like the cheese in a sandwich

Chapter 26: Strange-looking cow

Chapter 27: Not right at all

Chapter 28: Peter Pat

Chapter 29: Good meme

Chapter 30: SAVE ME!

Chapter 31: I’m not an idiot

Chapter 32: Waving goodbye

Chapter 33: Via Big Fart Moor

Chapter 34: I can feel it in my water

Chapter 35: Don’t get cross

Chapter 36: A secret plan

Chapter 37: As Simon Cowell says

Chapter 38: Chill out, sis

Chapter 39: Definitely sarcastically

Chapter 40: HOT ROD

Chapter 41: Like when you run at some sheep

Chapter 42: Calm as a cucumber

Chapter 43: The Eagle and the Squirrel

Chapter 44: Please, no

Chapter 45: Sorry, Mum!

Chapter 46: Does it still work if it gets wet?

Chapter 47: Exactly the opposite

Chapter 48: A nice-looking restaurant

Chapter 49: Mobilcon XR-207. Located

Chapter 50: The sort of thing they say in old films

Chapter 51: If possible, make a U-turn

Chapter 52: One hundred and ninety-two and a half miles

Chapter 53: And I’ll take the low road

Chapter 54: Not very nice

Chapter 55: Believe

Chapter 56: The ready, steady

Chapter 57: Sort of like a friend

Chapter 58: Like a proper big brother

Chapter 59: A strange decision

Chapter 60: Sitting wide

Chapter 61: Baked-bean-flavour crisps

Chapter 62: Until she absolutely has to

Chapter 63: A chance

Chapter 64: Ole’!

Chapter 65: WHAT’S HAPPENING?

Chapter 66: Always fine

Chapter 67: A dodgem car by the sea

Chapter 68: “Was that sarcastic?”

Chapter 69: You can’t say no

Chapter 70: I’ve got this

Chapter 71: The biggest present ever

Chapter 72: Where would you like to go today?

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About the Publisher

Amy Taylor loved cars. Here are her favourite ones:

1. The Aston Martin DB5. This is the one James Bond drives. Amy just loved the look of this one. Although as with all old cars (classic cars, as people in the know – like Amy – call them) if she had one she would get someone to remake it with an electric engine, so that it wasn’t bad for the planet. Maybe with the help of her friend Rahul, who was an inventor. Of sorts.

2. The Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing . This was another classic car. But it had doors that instead of opening normally came up like wings, making the whole car look like it could fly. It couldn’t.

3. The Jaguar E-Type, which was also an old car, but she liked the new one, called the Zero, which was actually electric. It was just as beautiful as the old car, and Amy thought it was very clever that the car had always been called the E-Type, even before there was an electric version.