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Fiona
Fiona is the star of Book Six of The Green Machines, a children's picture book series by David Woods. She is based on the FV432 personnel carrier.
Character card
- Best at
- Carries ten friends at once
- Quirk
- Fusses, and counts everybody twice
- Usually causes
- Loses count of passengers
- Read-aloud voice
- Brisk, kind
In the books
Abby's sister: they share the same body underneath. In Foxy's book she takes ten children to a picnic by the river, and in her own book the whole village throws her a surprise birthday party.
Appears in
Fiona, Book Six
Which real vehicle is Fiona based on?
- Real vehicle
- FV432 personnel carrier
- Era
- 1960s
- Country
- UK
- Did you know?
- A bus with tracks: ten passengers in the back and a big door at the rear.
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