Harbour Tales: Book 1

David Hobson

Description

This is the first book in a series of children's stories featuring characters located in a harbour setting. The characters are such as tugs, a submarine, barges, police boats, water taxis, sea-planes, trucks, cranes, a cruise liner and a dinner cruise boat.

Each story in the series (collectively known as 'Harbour Tales') features one or more of the characters as the central element.

Sujets

• Fiction Jeunesse
• Juvenilee Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 21 avril 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781456628420
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

Extrait

Harbour Tales
Book 1
 
 
Written by
 
David Hobson
 
Illustrations by
 
Michelle Brown
 
 
©2017

Copyright 2017 David Hobson,
All rights reserved.
 
 
Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-2842-0
 
 
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The Harbour
On the west coast of the island of Spudina was the City of Mandville, which had a large, natural harbour. The harbour was very busy with ships, barges, tugs, cranes, trucks and planes. It was controlled by the Harbour Master, Dr. Diana Davenport, who was known as ‘She Who Must Be Obeyed’.
Dr. Diana Davenport was tall with red hair and was dressed in a black jacket, dark grey skirt and black shoes. She made sure everything that needed to be done was done, and that everyone in the harbour was in the right place at the right time.
At the entrance to the harbour was the Mandville Harbour Bridge, which allowed cars and trains to go between the City and the northern part of the island. Ships had to pass under the bridge as they entered the harbour and as they left to go out to sea. People from all over the world knew of the beautiful bridge and many came to photograph it when they visited Mandville.
Around the south and east sides of the harbour were lots of tourist attractions such as museums, theatres, restaurants, a market and hotels. The north shore was more industrial with special areas called terminals for grain, oil, coal, chemicals and timber. There was also a huge area specifically for containers.


 
Dr Diana Davenport with Beryl and Brenda beneath the Harbour Bridge
 
These containers were filled with all sorts of products being sent to or coming from other parts of the world. Trains and trucks constantly brought the containers from around Spudina to be loaded onto special barges. They also collected containers of items being brought to Spudina.
Huge cranes were needed to load and unload the containers from the ships. One such crane was Granville. He swung his big, strong arm out over the ship and lifted up the containers one by one and then, carefully placed them on the back of a large truck or train. Granville had to work very fast because the container ships needed to be unloaded and reloaded so they could get back out to sea and on to their next destination. Granville was known as ‘Grumpy’ because he often shouted at everyone if they were not doing what he thought they should be doing. “Move that truck. Fasten those chains faster.