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J.M. Leonard
Jameen Leonard was raised in the Town of Tonawanda, New York and now lives in Kenmore, New York with her two daughters, Lailyonna and Ahmya. She currently is following the advice of the wise and fo...view moreJameen Leonard was raised in the Town of Tonawanda, New York and now lives in Kenmore, New York with her two daughters, Lailyonna and Ahmya. She currently is following the advice of the wise and following her lifelong passion: writing. She began writing at age nine, inventing short stories and plays for his family and friends, and has never lost her love of storytelling.
The Land of Learika is book one of The Learikean Trilogies, a series of fantasy adventure stories for children. This is her first published book.
Join in on the adventures at http://www.thelandoflearika.webs.com/ to hear more about upcoming stories and events.
This is not a story of once upon a time or of fairy tales you hear so often of. These are the true accounts that have been passed down for many years. These stories could never start with once upon a time but they could carry you away and take you to a place, before people were people and places were places. This is the story of Zandelyn and the Water Maid. Now, at this time Zandelyn was the most beautiful fairy of her kind. She stood no bigger than an inch tall and her wings were just as big as her body, so big that her feet never touched the ground. She had long thin dread locks and shinny pink gems in each one. She was also blessed with the colors of the evening sky on her dress and wings. The maids that gathered the gems, to put in her hair, lived in the water pond of Mir. They could not fly or walk only swim. They were not as pretty as Zandelyn was and they had fins right on the tops of their heads. However, the maids had tail fins so beautiful and so enchanting that even Zandelyn herself would stop to notice. All the creatures that lived in the waters of Mir knew Zandelyn and how much she loved herself. They knew that she never wanted anything because everything in and around the waters of Mir belonged to her. Until one day when the water was just as clear and blue as the great sky, Zandelyn was flying over the pond letting the water run through her fingertips she wished she could go in. But, because she was a fairy the one thing she could not do was go into the water. Her delicate wings would break apart and she could never fly again. Seeing that Zandelyn never learned to walk she would not risk it. Then it hit her and she called to Princess Nirvanna.....view less