'Super-fun stories specially chosen for 8-year-olds!
'A mysterious water horse, dogs with big plans, a fortune-telling dragon, poetry and elephants, a mouse rescuer extraordinaire, sheep on the football field, a bull ant emergency, a royal wedding for Nanny Piggins, a cross-country catastrophe and a soup-eating hero . . . You'll find all these in Stories for 8-Year-Olds. And you'll find some of your favourite Australian authors, too.
'After you've read one, you'll want to read them all! ' (Publication summary)
'A boy reports seeing a flying dog, but his family does not believe him. He is bet a thousand dollars if he can prove he saw one, or three years of washing if he can't.'
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_(short_story_collection))