Reflecto Girl’s first mission [second episode] continues from yesterday:
A successful first mission, well done Reflecto Girl!
I wonder what she’ll do next? Come back on Monday to find out!
or if you don’t want to wait, you can find out now 😀
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The vegan superhero, Reflecto Girl, was created by Violet’s Vegan Comics
Violet’s Vegan Comics creates funny, enlightening and sometimes action packed vegan children’s books for readers of all ages.
Established 2012
Reflecto Girl’s first mission [second episode] continues from yesterday:
NOW NOW NOW!!!
Will he do as he’s told? Come back tomorrow to find out!
or if you don’t want to wait, you can find out now 😀
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The vegan superhero, Reflecto Girl, was created by Violet’s Vegan Comics
Violet’s Vegan Comics creates funny, enlightening and sometimes action packed vegan children’s books for readers of all ages.
Established 2012
Reflecto Girl episode 2 continues from yesterday:
That’s it Renee, we can hardly recognise you! 😉
Come back tomorrow to see Reflecto Girl in action,
or if you don’t want to wait, you can see it now 😀
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Vegan superhero, Reflecto Girl, was created by Violet’s Vegan Comics
Violet’s Vegan Comics creates funny, enlightening and sometimes action packed vegan children’s books for readers of all ages.
Established 2012
In search of the origin of a sound that may be an animal’s cry for help, Reflecto Girl snoops:
Go on Renee – you can do it. Just put one foot in front of the other.
Come back tomorrow to see what happens when she goes inside
or if you don’t want to wait, you can read it now 😀
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Reflecto Girl is a character created by Violet’s Vegan Comics
Violet’s Vegan Comics creates funny, enlightening and sometimes action packed vegan children’s books for readers of all ages.
Established 2012
The story of vegan super(sort of)hero, Reflecto Girl, continues into episode 2 now, in which Renee launches Reflecto Girl’s career 😀 (Incidentally, can anyone tell me how to put the accent on the second e of Renee’s name? 😀 )
Join us on Monday to see what happens when Renee checks it out, unless you don’t want to wait, in which case you can find out now 🙂
Have a great weekend! ❤
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Reflecto Girl is a character created by Violet’s Vegan Comics
Violet’s Vegan Comics creates funny, enlightening and sometimes action packed vegan children’s books for readers of all ages.
Established 2012
Back to the beginning with vegan superhero, Reflecto Girl, continues with Grandma’s last piece of advice in episode 1. Read on:
There she is! Come back tomorrow to see the new vegan superhero in action or, if you don’t want to wait, you can find out what happens next right now!
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Reflecto Girl is a character created by Violet’s Vegan Comics
Violet’s Vegan Comics creates funny, enlightening and sometimes action packed vegan children’s books for readers of all ages.
Established 2012
Vegan children’s comic, Marvellous Mildred episode 3, continues.
For the story so far, click here.
It looks like Marvellous Mildred’s got her finger on the button! Come back next week for the next part of the story.
What’s a vegan storybook? you may ask. Well, basically, it’s like any other storybook except the central characters – the heroes – are vegan 😀
How many times have you had your enjoyment of a good story spoilt when the heroes – the people you liked, the people you were rooting for – ate meat or went fishing or bought a leather jacket?
When these things happen in children’s stories they send a message – they tell the child that it’s okay to do these things. The good guys do it so it must be okay. It’s normal.
Well, vegan storybooks do not pretend it’s okay to use, abuse and consume animals. Vegan storybooks create a new normal.
So a vegan storybook is not necessarily about veganism. It is simply a story in which animal exploitation is not normalised.
If you browse the front page you will see we have all sorts of vegan children’s books.
There are picture books and rhyming stories for little ones – one about an alien visitor to Earth, another about making a birthday cake, another about two little pigs trying to get home, another about a panda trying to find the right food and, yes, one about what it means to be vegan. ❤
We have some exciting series of vegan adventure comics for readers aged 8 and up. For example, Reflecto Girl who holds an ancient magic mirror in front of wrong-doers to give them a taste of their own medicine. Venus Aqueous is a champion swimmer who develops the supernatural power to hear and understand the marine animals who call for her help. Megan & Flos are telepathic eco-warriors and one of them is not of this world. Sherman and Geynes are pretend detectives who investigate mysteries of their own invention. The English Family Anderson are a nomadic family who meet an angry ghost. And Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are fearless, and funny, animal rescuers.
For those who prefer their stories in prose we have the funny short stories of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er – a rebellious eight year old boy who sticks up for animals at every opportunity, regardless of the trouble he gets into with parents and teachers. And there’s the thoughtful diary of a nine year old home-schooler.
There’s even a collection of fairy tales!
All our books are printed by lulu.com on demand to avoid waste, and the paper used is Forest Council Certified. None of the materials used for printing are animal by-products or animal-tested.
We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do – you can read them all for free here at Violet’s Vegan Comics – and keep coming back because we’re adding more all the time. We just can’t help ourselves!
Vegan children’s comic, Marvellous Mildred episode 3, continues.
For the story so far, click here.
Hold on Toby and Trevor, Mildred and the gang are coming to save you! Again.
Come back tomorrow to find out what happens next.
If you like vegan children’s stories and comics, you’ve come to the right place. But you don’t have to be a child to read them, they are all delightful, thrilling or exciting no matter how old a vegan you are.
Vegan stories with vegan characters having vegan adventures.
What’s a vegan storybook? you may ask. Well, basically, it’s like any other storybook except the central characters – the heroes – are vegan 😀
How many times have you had your enjoyment of a good story spoilt when the heroes – the people you liked, the people you were rooting for – ate meat or went fishing or bought a leather jacket?
When these things happen in children’s stories they send a message – they tell the child that it’s okay to do these things. The good guys do it so it must be okay. It’s normal.
Well, vegan storybooks do not pretend it’s okay to use, abuse and consume animals. Vegan storybooks create a new normal.
So a vegan storybook is not necessarily about veganism. It is simply a story in which animal exploitation is not normalised.
If you browse the front page you will see we have all sorts of vegan children’s books.
There are picture books and rhyming stories for little ones – one about an alien visitor to Earth, another about making a birthday cake, another about two little pigs trying to get home, another about a panda trying to find the right food and, yes, one about what it means to be vegan. ❤
We have some exciting series of vegan adventure comics for readers aged 8 and up. For example, Reflecto Girl who holds an ancient magic mirror in front of wrong-doers to give them a taste of their own medicine. Venus Aqueous is a champion swimmer who develops the supernatural power to hear and understand the marine animals who call for her help. Megan & Flos are telepathic eco-warriors and one of them is not of this world. Sherman and Geynes are pretend detectives who investigate mysteries of their own invention. The English Family Anderson are a nomadic family who meet an angry ghost. And Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are fearless, and funny, animal rescuers.
For those who prefer their stories in prose we have the funny short stories of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er – a rebellious eight year old boy who sticks up for animals at every opportunity, regardless of the trouble he gets into with parents and teachers. And there’s the thoughtful diary of a nine year old home-schooler.
There’s even a collection of fairy tales!
All our books are printed by lulu.com on demand to avoid waste, and the paper used is Forest Council Certified. None of the materials used for printing are animal by-products or animal-tested.
We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do – you can read them all for free here at Violet’s Vegan Comics – and keep coming back because we’re adding more all the time. We just can’t help ourselves!
Vegan children’s comic, Marvellous Mildred episode 3, continues.
For the story so far, click here.
It’s not over until it’s over, just when you think everything is fine and dandy, an automatic contraption goes haywire! It’s up to Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout twins, our vegan children’s story heroes, to save the day and stop it before it’s too late! Hurry, hurry, hurry!
Come back tomorrow to find out what happens next.
If you like vegan children’s stories and comics, you’ve come to the right place. But you don’t have to be a child to read them, they are all delightful, thrilling or exciting no matter how old a vegan you are.
Vegan stories with vegan characters having vegan adventures.
Vegan children’s comic, The English Family Anderson chapter 4, continues.
For the story so far, click here 😀
Come back on Monday to find out 😀
Have a great weekend!
It’s that time of year again, although it might not feel like it, so we’ve decided to get Christmassy at the Be The Future vegan market in Stoke Newington this weekend 😀
If you’re mourning the loss of the usual big Vegan Christmas events this year [eg VegFest and the Animal Aid Cruelty-Free Fair] then this might make up for it in a small way. It’s nice to be among vegans. It’s nice to be in a friendly, welcoming, vibrant but cosy shopping environment where you don’t have to ask – “what’s in that?” or “is that tested on animals?”
At the Be The Future Market you’ll find all sorts of vegan gift ideas from small local businesses who produce high-quality products with loads of love. Sorry, I can’t tell you exactly who’s going to be there this weekend because their website doesn’t specify (I think they give more info on instagram but I haven’t been able to make instagram work 😀 ) but I can tell you that we’ll be there on Saturday and that’s reason enough to pop in! ❤
We’re going to be there, on Saturday 12th December, with loads of our colourful vegan children’s books, already wrapped and ready for Christmas morning 😀
So don’t miss out – be there between 11am and 5pm and get Christmassy – vegan style! 😉
We can’t wait to see you! 😀
Abney Public Hall, 73A Church Street, Stoke Newington, London, N16 0AS
11am to 5pm on Saturday 12th December and Sunday 13th December 2020
Go to bethefuturemkt.com and scroll to the bottom of the page for directions including buses and trains info.
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Now I’d better get wrapping! 😉
When There Were Witches continues from yesterday:
In the subsequent weeks a few more people broke the law, and each time, Brynja cast the spell to punish them. Before long the whole world knew that Brynja was as powerful as her mother and they took care not to break the law.
After six months of no one breaking the law, Brynja missed the euphoria that came with casting a spell.
“Maybe I should cast a different spell,” she wondered aloud.
“Why?” asked Bertha.
“Maybe something needs fixing. Or improving.”
Bertha shook her head. “You know what Mother used to say – you can’t improve on nature.”
“Well,” Brynja felt mischievous, “maybe I can.”
Bertha raised her eyebrows. “Mother couldn’t but you can?”
Brynja grinned. “I’ve found Mother’s spell book.”
“You have?” asked Bertha eagerly. “No, I don’t think you should use it. I don’t think she wanted us to … I mean, she never showed it to us when she was here.”
“You can’t draw any conclusions from that. Maybe she just didn’t get around to it.”
She should have known Bertha wouldn’t be onboard. Bertha liked to play it safe. Bertha had no sense of adventure. What did Bertha know? She wasn’t even a real witch. You couldn’t call yourself a witch if you were too scared to cast a spell. Brynja wasn’t scared. Brynja was powerful. Brynja could definitely improve on nature!
When Bertha went outside to pick the apples, Brynja fetched the spell book, went into her bedroom and locked the door. She sat on the floor behind her bed and began leafing through the book. It was divided into sections. Colour Spells, Garden Spells, Healing Spells, Mood Spells and Discipline Spells. She decided to start at the beginning and successfully turned her fingernails green and her Spider Plant blue. They were only little spells so they didn’t give her quite the exhilaration she was looking for, but it was a nice little buzz. Next she decided to try something more challenging – changing the colour of her eyes.
She collected the necessary ingredients: a pinch of salt, a handful of earth, a single mint leaf and, since she wanted her eyes to be gold like her mother’s, two dandelion blooms. She put them all in the granite mortar and pounded them with the pestle. Then she scooped up the mixture with wet hands and smeared it around her neck.
Brynja laughed. “Yuck. Yuck yuck yuck yuck!” She took care not to drip any of the muddy sludge on the book as she read the spell.
“I pick this colour from this bloom
To be my eyes’ new bright costume.
From birth was green behind my sight
Now make gold while day becomes night.”
She closed her eyes and waited for the buzz, but none came. She went to the mirror and met the same green eyes she always met. In a rage of disappointment she picked up the pestle and threw it across the room, smashing the pink rose vase and spilling its contents onto the floor. Brynja let out a furious squeal and stomped into the bathroom to wash her neck.
That evening at supper, she was less than talkative.
“D’you want some more pie?” asked Bertha.
Brynja shook her head.
“All the more for me!” Bertha grinned as she cut another slice. “The apples are so good this year!”
“Mm.”
“Brynja?”
“What?”
“What’s the matter?”
“Nothing.”
“Something’s put you in a bad mood.”
“Fine. I’m in a bad mood.” Brynja continued to push her half-eaten pie around the plate.
Bertha finished her pie and proceeded to clear the table. “Are you going to eat that?”
Brynja sighed and leaned back in her chair. “No, you can take it.” She looked grumpily at Bertha and pushed the plate towards her.
“Thank you.” Bertha paused to look at her sister.
“What?”
“Your eyes. They’re not green anymore.”
“They’re not?” Brynja was excited. “What colour are they?”
Bertha peered a little closer. “They’re pinkish … with gold around the edges. No, hang on, the gold is spreading.” Brynja tried not to blink. “The gold is nearly covering …. now they’re completely gold! Wow! Your eyes are just like Mother’s! I wonder if mine will change too!” She hurried to the bathroom to look in the mirror.
Brynja grinned. A new tingling sensation in her toes rose through her body. Through the window she noticed the red and orange sky. The sun had just set. Day was slipping into night and it reminded her of the words of the spell – while day becomes night. That’s why the colour didn’t change right away. It needed the sunset to finish the spell. The spell had worked!
Bertha came back into the room a little disappointed. “My eyes are still blue.”
Brynja smiled. “I can make them gold if you like. Or yellow or purple or any colour you want.”
“You did it? With a spell?”
“Yes,” Brynja was glowing. “Don’t look so shocked. I am a witch after all. You should try it.”
“You’re not supposed to use magic for frivolous things.”
“Then why is there a section in the book for colour spells?” Brynja was determined not to let her sister spoil it.
“I don’t know. Maybe for things that need to be changed like … erm,”
“Changing the colour of your fingernails?” She held up her hands to show her green nails. “Or maybe changing the colour of a plant?”
“You changed a plant?”
“Yeah. My Spider Plant’s blue now. It was easy.”
“How many spells have you done?”
“D’you want to see my Spider Plant?”
Bertha smiled nervously. “Erm, okay.”
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Fairy Tale concludes tomorrow, but if you don’t want to wait you can read the whole story here 😀
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Eye illustration by Daniel Hannah of Pixabay
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Reflecto Girl #7 is now available in paperback!
And not only does it have a great story,
there’s the added bonus of a yummy cake recipe at the end 😀
Get yours now while stocks last! 😉
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Help us out – put some of our books on shelves in your town. Could ya? It won’t cost you nuthin’ 😀 
We like to leave our books wherever we think children might find them – in libraries, charity shops, cafes, railway stations, doctors’ waiting rooms. We leave them in charity shops so children can buy them for pocket money prices, but when we leave them on bookshelves in libraries, or cafes, or anywhere else they won’t be sold, we put a book fairy sticker on them.
WHAT IS A BOOK FAIRY?
Book fairies are people who, when they’ve finished reading a good book, leave it for someone else to enjoy. They pop a book fairy sticker on it, and hide it in public to be found.
We’re stealthy. None of the books we leave have the V-word on them. They’re just colourful storybooks and comics which we hope children will see and want.
We also have a little Book Exchange in an old phone box near us where we can leave books. So I was thinking, maybe you have something like that in your area. And maybe if we sent you some books you’d leave them on a shelf for children to find. 😀
Will you help us? Do you have a local book exchange or anywhere that would be ideal to leave books for children to find? We’ll send you them for free (for as long as funds last). If you can help, please contact us privately on the form below. Help us to inspire a vegan future.
For the animals.
Thank you so much ❤
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Oh no! Run little piggies run!
Story continues tomorrow 😀
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Two little pigs were running,
Running as fast as they could.
Away from the butcher and all his sharp knives
They ran just like anyone would.
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One hairy butcher was chasing,
Just as fast as he could run.
He huffed and he puffed and he slobbered,
He was crosser than anyone.
For all the Luke Walker chapters click here 😀
Chapter Twenty Three:
Activists
“Thank you.”
“You’re welcome. Good luck with it. I’m glad someone’s finally taking them to task for this,” the old lady smiled and continued on her way.
“How many does that make?” asked Luke.
“Seven hundred and eighty one.”
“That’s pretty good.”
“Yeah but I’d rather have a thousand.”
“When we’ve got a thousand we should send it to ’em.”
“Yeah. Then they’ll have to listen.” Tania put the petition clipboard into her bag and the Society made their way back along the pedestrianised precinct.
“Sponsor us to do the fun run?” Two small boys dressed in Cubs uniforms sat at a table behind a pile of sponsor forms.
Isabel smiled. “What are you raising money for?”
“Hearts Foundation,” answered one of them.
“The British Heart Foundation,” their Akela corrected him.
Isabel looked at her list. “Oh, I’m sorry,” she told them, “the British Heart Foundation is on the red list. We can’t support them.”
“What’s the red list?” asked the other boy.
Isabel showed him. “Charities on the red list do experiments on animals.”
“What kind of experiments?”
“They poison ’em, give ’em diseases, cut ’em up and then kill ’em,” Luke explained.
The boys looked shocked.
“Why’d they do that?” asked one of them.
“They say they do it because they’re trying to find cures for human diseases,” said Tania, “but it’s pointless because human bodies are not the same as other animals so they don’t react the same to diseases or medicines.”
“I’m not doing it!” said one of the Cubs firmly.
“Nor am I,” agreed the other one.
“Are you sure?” asked the Akela, “The British Heart Foundation? Surely they already know what causes heart disease, and how to prevent it.”
Isabel showed her the list.
“My goodness, there’s a lot of them on here,” she said, making a mental note to cancel her standing order to the Wellcome Trust.
“Shall we pack up?” asked a Cub.
“There’s a list of good charities on the other side,” said Isabel, “you could support one of them instead.”
The woman turned the leaflet over and looked at the green list. “Oh yes, there’s a lot to choose from .…… Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research …… ooh there’s a heart one – Heart UK, the Cholesterol Charity.”
“Let’s do that one!”
The Akela picked up the sponsor forms and thought for a moment. “Okay,” she said, “this is actually an easy fix. We’ll get some new sponsor forms printed at the library with Heart UK on them instead of British Heart Foundation and then we can come back here and pick up where we left off!”
The boys were slightly disappointed, having reasoned that the abandonment of BHF would mean they could pack up for the day, but they were very pleased that at least they wouldn’t be supporting animal cruelty.
“Where can I get one of those by the way?”
Isabel looked at the small print at the bottom of the list, “Animal Aid makes them,” she said, “animal aid dot org dot UK.”
“Right. Thank you for telling me.” The Akela smiled and escorted her Cubs to the library.
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“That’s the third time that’s happened to me,” said Isabel.
“Cubs asking you for money?” asked Joe.
“No, someone thanking me for telling them about a charity that’s experimenting on animals. And they all said they won’t support them again.”
“It just goes to show,” said Tania, “most people don’t want their money spent on animal torture.”
“Yeah! So it should be the law that when charities ask for money they have to tell people exactly what it’ll be used for.”
“Yeah,” said Joe, “they should put it on their posters.”
“And on their shop windows and their collectin’ tins and their adverts,” added Luke.
“Yeah!” said Tania, “let’s have some real transparency!”
“If only!” said Isabel.
“If wishes were horses,” said Luke, without really knowing what that meant, “we could make a horse of a different colour!”
“What?”
“We should do it!”
“Do what?”
“Put the truth on their posters.”
“You mean stickers,” said Joe, the only person who could follow Luke’s train of thought.
“I do.”
Isabel and Tania looked at each other and smiled.
“On’y thing is,” said Luke, “where do we get the stickers?”
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Story continues tomorrow 😀
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Vegan Life is a great magazine – written by vegans for vegans 😀 and this month they put us in it!!!!!
We are so excited to show you – a feature all about Violet’s Vegan Comics!!! – two full pages of writing, plus a couple of illustrations! If you’ve already read it you might have thought it was just one long waffle from me talking about our stuff but I was actually answering questions posed by the magazine interviewer, they just didn’t print the questions 😀
Miranda was so excited she posed for a picture with the mag as soon as she saw it, but now that we’re famous I thought it would be a good idea to give her a disguise so that she doesn’t get mobbed by fans 😀
Of course it’s not all about us 😉 There are loads of scrumptious recipes, interviews with activists and animal advocates, news about the rise of veganism in the mainstream and tons of positive vegan lifestyle inspiration. There’s loads more on their blog too 😀
And if you like the mag – which I know you will – you’re gonna love their live event!
Vegan Life LIVE takes place on the 14th and 15th of March 2020 at Alexandra Palace in London. There’ll be talks and cookery demonstrations and so many stalls full of yummy vegan products. Check out some of the highlights of their event in 2017 to get an idea of what to expect 😀
14-15 of March.
Be there! ❤
😀
Chapter 3 of the English Family Anderson continues 😀
Yes! That’s how you deal with diabolical reprobates!
If you missed the beginning, you can find the whole story on The English Family Anderson page 😀
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Chapter 3 of the English Family Anderson continues 😀
Ooh, what are they going to do? What’s Mrs Anderson’s idea? How can they stop the shoots on the Viscount’s estate? Find out tomorrow 🙂
Or if you don’t want to wait you can read the rest of the story now 😀
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Chapter 3 of the English Family Anderson continues 😀
Ooh, I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes! 😮
Story continues tomorrow, but if you don’t want to wait you know what to do 😉
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Chapter 3 of the English Family Anderson continues 😀
😮 How did Caitriona make sure her friends were safe? Find out on Monday!
Or read it now if you don’t want to wait 😉
Have a great weekend 😀
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The story of the English Family Anderson continues 😀
Gasp! 😮
Story continues tomorrow …. unless you’d like to read it here now 😀
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The story of the English Family Anderson continues 😀
Story continues tomorrow …. unless you’d like to read it here now 😀
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The story of the English Family Anderson continues 😀
Oooh 😮
Story continues tomorrow, or you can read it here now 😀
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The story of the English Family Anderson continues 😀
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Oooh, sounds like an angry ghost 😮
Story continues tomorrow, or you can read it here now 😀
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The Dragons of Durga is an epic novel by Simone Spearman.
It’s a slow, gentle tale, beautifully told with detailed, poetic descriptions that transport you to a magical, imaginary world. The story takes place in an ancient time. Long before anyone can remember, long before history was recorded, back when magnificent dragons still walked the Earth.
Spearman describes the different species as tribes – the Human tribe, the Dragon tribe, the Feline tribe, – all of whom live in co-operation and harmony. The Dragons have a special relationship with Human children whom they teach and mentor, but this only lasts until they come of age. Humans of age only get to commune with Dragons at the Midsummer celebration, to which every tribe of Durga is invited. The picture is wonderfully idyllic until the unthinkable happens and a vision of the future reveals a world without dragons.
A myriad of characters – Dragons of all shapes and sizes, a winged Cat, an unpredictable Rat, a Human girl who can change into any animal, a Human boy who blames the Dragons for a past tragedy – embark on an epic adventure, all working together to ensure the survival of the Dragon tribe.
And it’s a big hunk of a book – 538 pages!!! It took me a good few weeks to finish it because unfortunately I only have time to read at the end of the day, just before I go to sleep, but it certainly made me look forward to bedtime. I loved this book. It’s wonderful to have quality literature in which the protagonists are plant-eaters who fight for peace, harmony and equality among species. I love the dragons, I love the children, I love the weird and wonderful names they had and the innovative use of capital letters. Thank you Simone L Spearman.
Author: Simone L Spearman
Illustrator: Jason Weaver
Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic
Recommended for readers aged 8 and up
Published in August 2017
Format: Paperback (552 pages) & Kindle
ISBN-10: 0999278207
ISBN-13: 978-0999278208
Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 3.5 x 20.3 cm
Available from Amazon in the UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Japan.
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Sherman and Geynes episode 2 continues:
Want to read more Sherman and Geynes stories? Go to the Sherman and Geynes page!
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Story continues from yesterday.
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That’s it for Venus Aqueous #5
Have a great weekend 😀
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Story continues from yesterday.
To enlarge images for easier reading, use the zoom in your browser 🙂
Continues tomorrow but if you don’t want to wait, click Venus #5 now 😀
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Story continues from yesterday.
To enlarge images for easier reading, use the zoom in your browser 🙂
Continues tomorrow but if you don’t want to wait, click Venus #5 now 😀
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Story continues from yesterday.
To enlarge images for easier reading, use the zoom in your browser 🙂
Story continues tomorrow but if you don’t want to wait, click Venus #5 now 😀
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Hickory dickory dock,
I’ve got a hole in my sock.
The sock’s the one
With piggies on,
Hickory dickory dock.
Ickledy spickledy speck,
My scarf is around my neck.
The scarf’s the one
With ducklings on,
Ickledy spickledy speck.
Umbuldy tumbuldy tack,
I wear my bag on my back.
The bag’s the one
With moo cows on,
Umbuldy tumbuldy tack.
Spirally jirally jook,
My things have my friends on, look:
There’s pictures of
The ones I love,
Spirally jirally jook.
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This should be on Sesame Street 😉
This is just adorable. All sing along! 😀
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Wednesday 18 December
Jude has started drawing a cartoon strip. It’s really good, she’s great at cartoons. I really like the way she does people’s fingers and curly hair. So far she’s drawn seven pictures. I wonder what she’ll name her characters. Naming characters is one of my favourite parts of writing stories. I like to have a lot of characters when I write a story, just so I can name them all.
I sewed buttons onto my dress today. It buttons down the back, and I sewed press studs to button it up, and blue buttons to decorate it. And now my dress is finished! I tried it on and it fits perfectly. I love it! And it’s ready in time for me to wear it for Christmas.
I also made some mermaids to live on the rocks next to my lighthouse. I’m really pleased with them. I made them out of some slinky shiny fabric I had in my sewing box. I drew faces on them in felt tip and sewed long pink hair onto their heads. They look beautiful and they love playing in the water next to the lighthouse.
Thursday 19 December
Jude found the lip balm this morning and she’s really cross about it. She won’t stop going on about it, as if I did it on purpose, which I didn’t! I just wanted to see how far it would unwind to. How could I have known that once it had unwound it wouldn’t wind back in? And I didn’t mean for it to break off either. It was an accident. She’s very angry. She says I shouldn’t touch her stuff.
We have been making Christmas decorations out of paper and cardboard tubes and beads and glitter! I also knitted a lot of my pig, but he’s still not finished. He may have to be a belated Christmas present.
We read some more of These Happy Golden Years which is perfect to read in December because it is winter in the story.
Tomorrow is the Christmas holidays!!!
Sunday 22 December
We are on holiday in Wales! It’s brilliant here. We came on the train and then we caught a bus which drove us through these winding roads over huge hills and valleys to this town and then we had to find the key to the cottage! I really expected the bus to fall off the winding roads and slide down the side of the hills, but it didn’t.
It’s great here. Jude and me have a room and Mum and Dad have a room, and downstairs there is an electric fire and a kitchen and a sofa.
We brought our stockings with us. I’m a bit worried that Father Christmas won’t be able to find us because we’re in the wrong house, but Mum says he knows where we are.
Monday 23 December
There are some lovely shops in town, Mum has bought some books for us to learn Welsh when we get home. There’s a Welsh-English dictionary, a book of phrases and a book of Welsh fairy tales. We also went in the second hand shops and the junk shops, and I have started a collection of toy cars. I have bought fourteen little cars, my favourite one is a little red Mini with doors that open and close.
Tuesday 24 December
It’s Christmas Eve! I’m so excited! Today we went for a walk up the mountain, it was raining a bit so we wore our raincoats. It was a long way up, so we didn’t go all the way. I think we got to the bottom of the mountain and then it was time to go home. But the views were magical and we even saw a natural spring!
Tomorrow is Christmas! We have never been away from home on Christmas before, it’s really fun! We’ve left mince pies out for Father Christmas and carrots for his reindeer, because they will all be hungry.
Thursday 26 December
Yesterday was brilliant! Father Christmas did find us, and he brought us lots of lovely presents! He brought me a T shirt with a green motorbike on it, and some veggie bears which are fruity sweet jellies! He ate one of the mince pies we left out for him, and took the carrots we left out for all the reindeer.
We had roast potatoes and carrots and beans and sosmix toad-in-the-hole. For a long time I thought toad-in-the-hole had something to do with Toad of Toad Hall from The Wind In The Willows, but it doesn’t. I don’t know why they call it toad in the hole though.
We had crackers and party hats and mince pies too. I had apple pie because I don’t like mince pie. I try to like it every year, because it’s so Christmassy, but I never do. I won a little rubber dinosaur in my cracker!
We had a great day playing games and watching Snow White which was on television. We also went for a walk on the mountain, which was beautiful. When we got back we had missed the beginning of The Great Escape, but we watched the rest of it, it’s such an exciting film.
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And that brings us to the end of December and therefore the end of Chapter 3 but don’t go far, Jude and the other one will be back soon to start a happy new home-schooling year in Chapter 4: January 😀
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Thursday 5 December
Jude made a fruitcake and flapjacks! I don’t know which I like best, because fruitcake is so sweet and juicy but flapjacks are golden and crunchy.
While Jude was baking I worked on my dress. Mum helped me to sew on the sewing machine and press the seams with an iron. We have a really old sewing machine which used to belong to our great aunt who was a seamstress.
I think being a seamstress would be a great job because I like sewing, and it would mean you could make all your own clothes! People used to make all their own clothes, that’s what they do in Little House on the Prairie.
Friday 6 December
In the morning we went to the shops, we got the food shopping for the week, and visited Button Boutique to look at needlework supplies. I bought some buttons for my collection: I got a pink one shaped like a flower and a green one with a sheep painted on it. They are fun things to get with your pocket money because they are only a few pence each. We also got chips from the chip shop afterwards!
We made papier mâché dinosaurs this afternoon! They are tyranosaurus rexes and they are brilliant. We have to wait for them to dry before we can paint them, so they are in the porch right now.
Tuesday 10 December
We had a history test today. All morning we did revision by reading over our history exercise books, and then in the afternoon we had a test.
Mum made the test. She wrote three pages of questions about the things we studied so far this year in history, and we had to answer them. It was quite fun because I like quizzes, but I couldn’t remember some things.
I got sixty percent of my questions right, which Mum said is a B- grade! Jude got seventy four percent of hers right, so she got a B+.
Also we finished Little Town on the Prairie today. Our new morning reading book will be These Happy Golden Years (which is the next book in the series by Laura Ingalls Wilder).
I painted my papier mâché dinosaur browny-purple with greeny-grey stripes. Jude’s is dark green and yellow, and Mum’s is yellowy-green with red eyes and blue spots all over his back. We should make other kinds of dinosaurs, stegosaurus and diplodocus and tricerotops.
I think my favourite type of dinosaur is the diplodocus, but I also like the other kinds too. I really like The Land Before Time films, my favourite character in that is Spike, But I don’t know what sort of dinosaur he is.
While I was playing after dinner I found Jude’s lip balm, which is strawberry flavoured. If you twist the bottom the lip balm comes out, like a glue stick. So I was just twisting it to see how far it would come out, and it must have come to the end because it got stuck. So I started twisting it in the other direction, but it wouldn’t go back in. And then it broke off, so I hid it under her chest of drawers.
Wednesday 11 December
It was really sunny but also chilly riding our bikes to the swimming pool, we wore gloves and hats and scarves. My bike is metallic purple, so is Jude’s, and Mum’s is golden.
In the afternoon I did decimals and fractions and adding and subtracting in maths. Jude did mental arithmetic.
We did quiet reading after maths. I’m reading a book called Refugee by Benjamin Zephaniah, Mum says she wants to read it after me, and Jude is still reading Emma.
For cookery we made nut-stuffed mushrooms! They were delicious and quite fancy. They would be great for a tea party. Mushrooms are not like other vegetables, they are special, because they are fungus.
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Monday 2 December
We went to town for a shopping exercise this morning. Mum gave Jude and me ten pounds each and a shopping list each, and then we had to buy everything on the list for less than ten pounds and get the best value for money. Mum said we did very well.
It was so fun to play at shopping! It was hard as well, because you have to do maths to work out which tin of beans or which box of pasta is best value for money.
You have to compare the prices, but you also have to compare how much is in the boxes, and if it’s different then you need to divide the cost by the quantity, so that you know how much money one gram costs.
I really like going to the shop we did the exercise in, it’s a giant health food shop, big enough to push a trolley round, called Daily Bread and it has lots of food you can’t get in the ordinary supermarket. You can buy dried apple rings and big bags of peanuts and vegan ice cream and banana chips. And you can buy special organic beans which taste better than ordinary beans because they have oregano and things in them.
It’s a long walk out of town, and once we were allowed to choose a big bar of chocolate each and I ate my whole one hundred gram bar on the walk back. We didn’t do that today though, we took a packed lunch with us and had a picnic while we waited for the bus.
We watched The Simpsons at six o’clock, and ate some of the nice things we got from Daily Bread. I ate apple rings and Jude sat in the big wicker chair and ate a lot of salted peanuts.
Fruit is a lot more fun when it’s dried out. Apple rings, banana chips, raisins, pineapple, mango, papaya. They are perfect for nibbling on. They’re just like sweets.
Tuesday 3 December
I had times tables tests this morning, and then we read Wuthering Heights together. I don’t like Catherine at all, she’s moody and spoilt. I don’t know why everyone is falling in love with her. I suppose they lived in the middle of nowhere, so there was nobody else for them to fall in love with.
After lunch we made treasure maps. We drew imaginary island maps with “X marks the spot” for where the treasure would be, and then we used teabags to dye our paper brown and we baked it in the oven!
A few years ago me and Jude did bury treasure in the back garden. We dug a big hole under the cherry tree with the red leaves, and we buried all our pennies. After a few months we dug them up and spent them on sweets at the corner shop. I could tell the shop keeper thought it was strange that we had money covered in soil, but he didn’t say anything.
Wednesday 4 December
In the morning we read Little Town on the Prairie and then learned some more about Boudicca. That was the final chapter in our book about Boudicca. Nobody knows when she died or where she was buried, but they think she survived the final battle her people had with the Romans.
We have started a new project for science about gardening. We read from books about plants and soil, and wrote things down in our exercise books. After that we went outside and dug a vegetable patch in the lawn. The ground is really frozen in the garden so it is really hard to dig at all. It’s cold outside so we wore our hats and gloves. We also turned over the compost heap and put some of the compost to mix into the vegetable patch.
We had to hand in our essays about chapter seven of David Copperfield. Mum says they are both very good essays. I used lots of quotes and I didn’t say anything in the conclusion that I hadn’t said in the middle. My essay was about David’s friendships with Steerforth and Traddles.
When Dad got home from work we all had ginger cake.
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Friday 29 November
In history we studied more about Boudicca and her battles with the Romans. She sounds brilliant. I like that she had long red hair.
This afternoon we made treats for the Christmas bazaar! I made chocolate hazelnuts and fudge, while Jude made chocolate oaty treats and peppermint fondants. Fondant is great because you can do anything with it. You can dip it in chocolate or stick leaves to it, or make it shaped like mice, or turn it pink with beetroot juice. The fudge was so nice I wanted to eat it all.
I am really looking forward to the bazaar because it’s so much fun. There is always a raffle and a bric-a-brac stall and a stall where you can buy knitted tree decorations and a games stall and a lucky dip where you close your eyes and pick a prize.
They also have a mystery jars stall which has lots of glass jars wrapped in Christmas paper and you pay fifty pence to buy a jar without knowing what’s in it! Sometimes the jar will have cotton wool in it, or sweets or toys or buttons or jam or anything. Once I got a jar full of mint imperials, which I wasn’t too keen on at first, but after I ate some I really started to like them. They also sometimes have a game where you have to name a teddy bear, which is how Jude won those bears we drew in art.
Find out what Jude and her sister got up to in December – Chapter 3 coming soon 🙂
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In history we are studying Boudicca who was a Celtic queen. Celtic women were equal to Celtic men, so when her husband, the Iceni King, died she became the leader of their people.
But the Romans didn’t believe women could own property, so they tried to overthrow her by attacking her, her daughters and the village they lived in. So she got very angry and she rampaged the country collecting people to help take back the land which belonged to the Celts. The Romans were really bad and tried to fight her army but the warrior queen was too sneaky for them.
After lessons Jude wrote in her diary. Jude has a diary with a padlock on it, which she got for Christmas. It has stickers and stamp pens which make love hearts and exclamation marks. I have seen it and it’s really tidy, she writes in different coloured pens and her writing is much neater than mine. And she’s really good at eking out her stickers. I can’t help sticking stickers nearly as soon as I get them.
Wednesday 27 November
After breakfast and chores we each read a chapter of Little Town on the Prairie out loud and then we had English and read chapter six of David Copperfield together. Mum set us homework to read chapter seven and answer an essay question by next Wednesday.
We had cereal for lunch today. Jude got the free gift from the box, which was a plastic football player. He came with stickers which you could use to make his uniform stripey and decorated. Jude took the stickers and used them to decorate a toy car instead. It’s very good, it looks all ready for a demolition derby.
For needlework we are making cross-stitch tapestries! They will be beautiful when we’re finished. They’re so delicate and complicated. They take a really long time to stitch.
The salt dough ornaments we made last week are ready to paint now so we painted them red and yellow and blue and green. I tried to write Merry Christmas on one, but it was too small, so I wrote Xmas instead. The holes we made for the strings are a little bit small, but we can make them bigger with a needle. When the paint is dry we can varnish them with pva glue.
Thursday 28 November
I have read Chapter Seven now, it’s all about David being at boarding school and the friends he makes. He has two friends, Steerforth and Traddles, which is lucky because the teachers are horrible to him. At the end of the chapter Mr Peggotty and Ham come to visit David, and they meet Steerforth.
I don’t think I have ever written an essay before, and I thought it was spelled S.A.. Mum said that lots of people think it’s spelled S.A. when they first hear the word, and that a school friend of her’s wrote “S.A.s” in big letters on the front of her exercise book in the first year of secondary school.
Mum says an essay has to have an introduction, a middle and a conclusion. The beginning is where you say what it is that you are planning to prove in the essay, the middle is where you explain why your point is true, and use quotes to prove it. The conclusion is where you explain that you have now proven your point.
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The end of November concludes Chapter Two tomorrow 🙂
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