Mrs G’s Family Fun Book

Arlene Geoffrey

Description

'Family Fun' is for children of all ages, There are stories for small children like the one about Molly who was very upset because she couldn't find her Teddy bear at bedtime. To stories for older children like Brett who thought (like most twelve year olds) that he had found a haunted house. Poem are there as well and on some pages there are pictures to colour. The older children can read their stories and parents can read to little children. In our lives our imaginations create many types of dreams and adventures and I think that 'Family Fun' could help young minds to stay active. (Mrs G.)

Sujets

• Interactive
• Juvenilee Fiction
• Arlene
• Interactivity
• Fun
• Short Stories
• Interactivité

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris AU
• Date de parution: 10 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669832133
• Langue: English

Extrait

MRS G’S FAMILY FUN BOOK
 
Let’s read stories, draw pictures and colour together.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Arlene Geoffrey
 
Copyright © 2022 by Arlene Geoffrey.
 
 
ISBN:
Hardcover
978-1-6698-3215-7
 
Softcover
978-1-6698-3214-0
 
eBook
978-1-6698-3213-3
 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.
 
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
 
Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.
Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rev. date: 06/26/2023
 
 
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
The Lonely Gumboots
The Land of Sparkle
The Lost Sock
Earth to Mother
Ferdy
Blue Feather
Gran’s Treasure
The Playground
The Secret of the Map
The Sea
Teddy Bear Ribbons
The Green Glow
“Toe Jam and Pickle”
Benny
Fairies I Have Known
 
About the Author
THE LONELY GUMBOOTS
T he little gumboots sat in the cupboard feeling sorry for themselves. “Why are you so grumpy?” asked the neat black school shoe.
“Leave us alone” grumbled the lonely little gumboots who hadn’t been worn for weeks and weeks.
The cupboard door began to open. The gumboots stopped crying, and looked up excitedly to see if Emily was going to choose her gumboots to wear. “Now let me see. I’m not going to school, so I don’t need to wear school shoes. I’m not going to a party, so I don’t need party shoes.”
The little gumboots began to fidget. “Oh boy” they thought “maybe she’s going to play in the mud.” They wriggled around trying to get near the front of the cupboard so that Emily would notice them.
“I’m going to play with my skipping rope, so I’ll need my sneakers.” Emily picked up her sneakers and closed the cupboard door. The little gumboots began to cry again.
“Here we go again” said the school shoe.
The fluffy slipper slid across the cupboard to the gumboots, she snuggled up close so that they would feel comfortable. “Don’t cry dears” she said like a kindly Granny, “we all have to wait our turn for Emily to wear us.”
“Yes we know” sobbed the gumboots, “but you get worn every morning. And school shoes go out every week day, but we have to just sit here forever waiting for it to rain.” Nothing Slipper said would cheer up the gumboots. They sobbed and sobbed.
School Shoe started to complain about the noise again, until Slipper told him to show a little kindness. After a few hugs and cuddles from Slipper, the gumboots stopped crying and went to sleep. All was quiet in the cupboard, so quiet that the Slipper heard the rain on the roof. She smiled to herself.
The cupboard door opened again. “I wonder where my gumboots are?” said Emily as she put her sneakers back in the cupboard.
Slipper nudged the gumboots. “Wake up” she whispered, “it’s raining.”
Emily moved her school shoes, and then her party shoes, her sandals and her ballet shoes. At last she found her gumboots in the corner next to her slippers.
“Ah there they are. I’ll put them on and go and splash in the puddles.”
The gumboots were so excited, they wriggled and made it hard for Emily to put them on. At last the two blue gumboots were on and Emily ran outside.
“Whoopee!” shouted the gumboots. “Whoopee” they said again. Emily and her gumboots ran and shouted and jumped in every puddle. They sloshed in the mud and had great fun.
That night when the gumboots were dried and put away in the cupboard, they snuggled up to Slipper and told her about their wonderful day.
 
Picture to colour of Emily jumping in a puddle wearing her gumb oots.
THE LAND OF SPARKLE
O nce upon a time in a very tiny little place called Sparkle, there lived some Fairies. Of course if the place was called Sparkle, you would expect Fairies to live there.
This place was called Sparkle because instead of trees being planted everywhere, there were pretty circles on the ground. Whenever any of the Fairies or animals who lived there stepped on a circle, it would sparkle. It was great fun and kept the Fairies and animals happy.
The little Fairy Princess whose name was Princess Eliza, was such a lovely little Fairy, that instead of calling her Princess Eliza, everyone called her Eliza Lovely. Her best friend Tom also had a special name. He was called Tom The Tease because he was always teasing Eliza Lovely, not in a nasty way. He just teased her for fun.
Sometimes Tom called her Mrs Rabbit because she loved little rabbits and had several of them as pets. The rabbits often used to run around Sparkle jumping from circle to circle to see who could make the brightest sparkles.
Apart from being a kind and caring Fairy, Eliza was very pretty and everyone loved her, that is everyone except Maud Meanie, who was a witch. She was not pretty. She had the usual wart on her nose and like most grumpy people her smile was on upside down.
Maud Meanie who was jealous of Eliza Lovely’s pretty face, was planning to do something mean to her. She thought about casting a spell to upset Eliza Lovely, but hadn’t decided which spell she would use. Maud looked in her book of spells and found a page of jelly spells.
She read about a spell that would make Eliza Lovely’s legs like jelly, so that every time she tried to stand up, she would fall over.
She read about turning Eliza Lovely’s nose into jelly so that it hung down to her chin. She also found a spell that would turn her wings to jelly so that she wouldn’t be able to fly. But then she decided to turn Eliza Lovely’s pet rabbits into jelly.
“Yes, that’s what I’ll do” she said to herself. Maud found a recipe for changing things into jelly and went to find the ingredients that she needed.
She found two thistles, a cup of blackberries and a teaspoon of Witches Brew Number One. She mixed the ingredients and left them to set in her best witch’s bowl, but ----- what Maud Meanie didn’t know ---- was that Tom The Tease had been watching through her window and heard her talking to herself.
Tom decided that he wasn’t going to let Maud Meanie play any tricks on Eliza Lovely, so he sneaked into Maud’s house, found her magic brews and added three spoons of Witch’s Brew Number Four to the mixture. He then thought that he had better keep an eye on Maud Meanie so that she didn’t do anything to hurt Eliza Lovely.
He went back to find Eliza Lovely and there she was playing with her rabbits. They watched the rabbits jumping from sparkle to sparkle making a lovely show of pretty colours. Then he saw Maud Meanie hurrying along the street. He wasn’t sure what she was going to do, and he had to do something to protect his best friend.
The rabbits were running everywhere so Tom opened the playground gate and let the rabbits out. They ran all around the place and eventually they knocked Maud Meanie over.
Maud let out a scream as she fell, not because she was hurt, but because her magic spell mixture had spilt all over her face. She thought she was going to be turned into jelly.
Eliza and Tom watched as Maud’s face began to change colour. First it went bright red, and then a horrible green. Next it went to a pale shade of pink and then --- then ---- Maud’s face became beautiful. Tom and Eliza couldn’t believe it.
“Maud” said Eliza Lovely “you are beautiful.”
“Me? Beautiful! You must be joking.”
“No the mixture that spilt onto your face has made you look absolutely beautiful. I have a tiny mirror in my pocket. I’ll show you.” Eliza Lovely took the mirror from her pocket and held it in front of Maud.
“Oh” said Maud “Oh I’ve never been beautiful in my life. But how did that happen? That spell was meant to turn your rabbits into jelly.”
“Um, er, I heard you making the spell and while you were out of the room, I added three spoons of something else to it,” said Tom.
“Maud” asked Eliza, “why were you going to do that to my dear little rabbits?”
Maud hung her head.