Toby's Christmas Adventure: A Children's Book
Kathy Barnett
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(Amazon.com, Nov. 22, 2013)
My eyes sparkle with glee as my friend Hamlet, who is a mouse, and I fly on a magical reindeer. We go on a fun journey to the North Pole. We meet green elves that make Christmas toys. Santa Clause helps us build a snowman that sings and dances. It is made from magic snow dust. Bana, the magical reindeer, also flies us into the enchanted forest to help me find friends for Hamlet. We meet Rufus, a friendly talking wood bug.I think that this has been the coolest Christmastime adventure ever. We had a lot of fun. Also, we realized that love from family and friends are forever, no matter where they are. Children ages 5-9 will enjoy riding along with these fantasy characters.This short story children's book contains approximately 5,393 words.'Excerpt'Hamlet and I climb off of Bana's back. We all start looking around for kind creatures who will like to be new friends with Hamlet. Suddenly a bug from behind the trunk of a large tree peeks out.“Why are you all in the forest?” The bug asks.“We are looking for friends for Hamlet?” I say.“Who is Hamlet?” The bug asks.The hair on my head starts wiggling. Hamlet's head pops out from between the strands.“Hi, I’m Hamlet. What is your name?” He asks.“I am Rufus, king of the wood bug tribe,” the bug says.Everyone except Rufus laughs. He cries as he places his front legs over his eyes to wipe them dry.“Just because I’m different does not mean you can hurt my feelings by making fun of me,” he tells us.I sadly look at him realizing that he is right.“We were wrong. Please forgive us. It’s just that we have never heard a bug talk before. We did not mean to hurt your feelings,” I say.“Please get it right. I am not any ole' bug. I am a wood bug. I eat the wood off the trees. Since I am very small, it does not harm the trees and my belly stays full all of the time,” Rufus proclaims.“Wood bug of the wood bug tribe, we’re looking for some creatures of the forest who will really like to be friends with Hamlet. He cannot live in the forest all by himself. It will be too lonely,” Bana says.Rufus puts his front legs on his buggy hips.“Obviously Hamlet can’t be my friend. He might eat or accidentally step on me. We don’t want that to happen. A little ways in these woods are other small creatures of the forest that will probably enjoy being his friend. They are Hamlet's size and are brown, not gray though,” he responds.Bana and I smile because we are hopeful that the wood bug just might have found new friends for Hamlet.