A Dragon Goes to School
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Wake up Lazybones’ Aerynn’s dads loud voice broke into her beautiful dream about living in fairyland. ‘Get up now or you will be late for your first day at school’ Aerynn shook her purple head, sat up and swung her short stumpy legs onto the floor. Standing up she did her morning exercises. Open and close small wings, one lazy star jump and then quickly run out into the main part of their cave for breakfast. Breakfast dragon style meant piles of green stuff thrown into a big heap into the centre of a large boulder that acted as their table. There was dandelion, daisy and four leaf clover leaves, lots of sloppy bright green moss and Aerynn’s favourite mushy green apples. Aerynn was so excited about her first day at school that she forgot all about manners and started stuffing food into her mouth as fast as she could. Result a good quick breakfast but lots of green stuff left over on her teeth. She dashed from the table towards the cave mouth but was stopped in her tracks by her mother’s yell. ’Don’t forget to clean your teeth’. This was the bit of the morning that Aerynn liked least. Slowly slinking over to a hole in the wall she put her head in and opened her mouth. Out of the darkness crept two little black Champa-bugs a bit like caterpillars with long bright red tongues and green sparkling eyes. Slowly pulling her head out of the hole with the two Champa-Bugs clinging onto her teeth she stood patiently waiting her mouth wide open. The black wriggly creatures slowly moved around her mouth licking off all the bits of green breakfast. When they had cleaned all her teeth they crawled out onto her nose and lay there fat and bloated. One even burped. Aerynn picked them up gently, said ‘thank you’ and dropped them back into the hole in the wall. Back came two replies ‘next time eat your food slower and don’t make so much mess’. They then waddled off into the darkness burping noisily their big fat bellies swinging from side to side.. Aerynn stood still for a moment then said to her mother ‘can our Champa-bugs talk’. Her mother looked at her with amusement in her eyes and replied ‘I have never heard them say anything, it must be all in your mind’.
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About the Book
We first met Aerynn in The Magician’s Apprentice when she hatched from her egg in a thunder storm on the slopes of The Cheviot hills.
This is the first big adventure for this young purple dragon as she travels to school on her first day.
The story follows Aerynn from waking, eating breakfast and having bugs clean her teeth to going down the steep hill side to her best friend’s farm.
Her journey then continues on a horse and cart to the local village school.
During the journey Aerynn discovers that she does have a special gift which she has to use to save her and her friends from deadly danger.
About the Author
Les was born in Ashington Northumberland in the North of England and started work in the mines at the tender age of fourteen.
Obtaining a degree in Electrical Engineering he spent the next fifteen years working on Railway and Power Station projects in Scotland, Africa and Iran, finally arriving in Brisbane in the early 80’s.
The remainder of his working life was spent as a Electrical Engineer and later on a Management and Safety Consultant with Queensland Rail.
Married with one daughter he retired in early 2000 to take up a life of leisure involving Ten Pin and lawn bowls, reading, movies, playing with his granddaughter as well as finishing his first book The Magician’s Apprentice.
This is his second book especially written for his granddaughter.