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    The Adventures of the Flying Boat
    The Adventures of the Flying Boat
    The Adventures of the Flying Boat
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    The Adventures of the Flying Boat

    By Winslow Nicholas

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    “It’s a monster! It’s a monster!” It cried, in a very high pitched voice. After discovering a strange, silvery object in the lake in their back garden, Broders and Chi-Chi meet and befriend a little green leprechaun who takes them on an adventurous journey through strange lands, where they meet with a host of exciting characters. A must for children of all ages. Excellent bedtime story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWinslow Nicholas
    Release dateSep 6, 2010
    ISBN9781452334264
    The Adventures of the Flying Boat
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    Winslow Nicholas

    Winslow Nicholas began writing at an early age, film scripts, plays, science fiction, and children’s books, when he was about 17 years of age. In the early 1980’s he entered into the world of children’s story tapes (on cassette).One of his first releases was a children's story adventure “Pineapple in Candyland” (Barbara Short), which was narrated by TV Personality Sally James, famous for the Saturday morning children’s TV show, Tiswas, which starred the raven-haired goddess James and, most famously, Lenny Henry, together with presenter of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Chris Tarrant.The late showbiz wizard, Bob Monkhouse, was first offered the job of reading the children's story, Pineapple in Candyland, but his agent baulked at the fee which was offered at the time, stating that it was much too low! (I was a poor student! What did he expect?) Subsequently, after some tough negotiating, Sally James agreed to narrate the talking book. Apparently she accepted a fee which was slightly higher than that first offered to Mr Monkhouse!Later on in the early 1990’s whilst talking with the director of Foyles Bookshop in London, about a window display for the storytapes, he suggested to Winslow to get into diet and health books, as they were big business at the time. By the mid 1990’s Winslow had written his first serious book for publication “A Caribbean Diet.” His literary agent almost secured a deal with a major publisher, but the industry was going through some changes at the time, and then his agent decided to join the QE2 liner and concentrate on her book selling side of the business on the ship.This prompted him to try this publishing thing himself. He printed 5,000 copies of A Caribbean Diet, secured a distribution deal with Exel Logistics (UK), who managed to spread the book around, although rather thinly indeed... one copy to waterstones, a couple to W H Smith etc,. Eventually, Exel had a shake-up and takeover... He was left with a pallet load of books, unceremoniously dumped in his front garden, outside his flat. A large number were donated to Great Ormond Street Children’s Charity, and Oxfam, and others sold on via mail order.Later on that year he completed his second book, “Shape Up with Karatics,” a diet and exercise book based on a system of exercises from his favourite sport, Karate, (as he was a Black Belt, European Champion at the time). He wasn’t about to repeat the same costly mistakes of the past, so he decided to abandon costly print and enter into the cheaper world of ebooks.For the past few years Winslow has been writing and selling his books through independent publishing platforms such as Smashwords and Createspace on Amazon. He has written 10 books to date (some will be available from Smashwords soon), and he is currently working on his 11th book.

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      The Adventures of the Flying Boat - Winslow Nicholas

      The Adventures of the Flying Boat

      Winslow Nicholas

      First published in 2009 by Winslow ePublishing

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2010, Winslow Nicholas

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, rented or lent without prior permission of the copyright owners.

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      ISBN 978-0-9563620-1-8

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 1

      Broders was standing in the middle of his garden talking softly to himself, ‘Our garden is such a lovely garden,’ he said, ‘it has bluebells, chrysanthemums, roses and all those pretty little yellow flowers that I can never remember the name of… something to do with tigers, or was it lions… anyway the birdies like them...’

      Just then, a pretty Goldfinch flew over and perched herself on one of the branches only a few steps away from where he was standing, and began to sing! She looked straight into his eyes without showing the least bit of fear.

      ‘What a beautiful song,’ he said softly to himself. ‘It’s so lovely here; the sky is blue and the sun is shining brightly in the sky, so I’ll just sit right here on the grass and listen to…’ He paused for a while, then he sat down very carefully as he didn’t want to frighten the poor little singing bird. He bent his knees then lowered himself onto to the grass. Well, he tried, and he was just about to sit comfortably on the best patch of grass in the garden, when suddenly he heard a ghastly shriek!! It came from somewhere, but he couldn’t tell exactly where.

      Then he heard it again, this time it was louder than the first one! Then he heard a voice shout, ‘It’s a monster! It’s a Monster!’ It cried, in a very high pitch voice. But he didn’t recognize it.

      Just then, something large and pink ran swiftly past him, or did it glide past? He couldn’t tell, it was much too fast. Whatever it was, it almost knocked him to the ground.

      ‘Oi! Be careful!’ He shouted, but it was too late. He didn’t get a chance to see it properly. It was just a blur, then it was gone. He was almost seated on the grass, but the wind from the speeding object, or whatever it was, caused him to lose his balance and he fell flat on his back.

      He lay there helpless for a brief moment, kicking his legs in the air and desperately trying to right himself. I must get up! He thought to himself, I must get up quickly to see what that horrible thing was!

      When he got up he looked and he saw that it was a pink hump, and it was sticking out through the grass, like a mound. It had settled on the grass, and it was making a strange sound, which sounded familiar to him, but he could not make it out. That’s odd! He thought.

      It’s not moving! ‘I’ll have to get closer,’ he whispered to himself. The sound from the pink hump grew louder and louder..! Very quietly! He thought, I’ll creep up to it very quietly! So he crept, almost on tiptoe, frightened that he might disturb the dry grass and alert the pink beast!

      What if I annoy it, will it eat me? He thought to himself as he drew closer. It may have just had its breakfast, and may decide to just bite me instead, just for spite. Oh no! He thought, that’s just as painful. If it’s going to eat me it might as well just eat me all up in one go, and do it quick! He thought for a moment, shaking with fright, almost tripping up on his own feet and ploughing headlong right into the creature.

      The thought of it all caused him to lose his nerve. He decided to turn and run away from the beast as fast as he could instead of facing it.

      ‘Broders! Broders! Where are you going?’ the familiar voice sounded once more, which he half recognized. It was coming from the beast!

      Broders began to slow down to a fast walk then he turned round slowly only to see the pink and furry mound rising. It rose high in the air until it was twice its original height... but thinner?

      ‘Don’t go that way, Broders, there’s a monster in the lake!’ It said again in a soft sad voice.

      Broders stood there silent, staring at the tall pink... thin thing? But it had legs? It has little legs like… that? How can a big scary monster have such silly little thin legs? And white socks and all... with pretty pink shoes… and shiny silver buckles?

      ‘Chi-Chi!’ He groaned when he finally realised, and then he tugged at the pink sheet, and pulled it from the beast’s head. Chi-Chi beamed as she was unveiled.

      ‘I’m not happy with you,’ Broders went on. ‘You could have hurt me, scaring me like that!’ Then he folded his arms and turned his back on her, then he stamped his feet in a little rage.

      ‘Broders,’ pleaded Chi-Chi. ‘But there’s a monster, a real monster in the...’

      ‘Stop, Chi-Chi!’ Broders interrupted, as he turned to face her. ‘You scared my birdie away, while he was singing a beautiful song, with your silly monster games!’ He said rather sadly, feeling somewhat sorry for himself.

      ‘But there is a monster in the lake, Broders. It’s true, I saw it,’ she pleaded. ‘That’s what I came to tell you. I was only playing around with the sheet. I didn’t mean to scare you, Broders.’ She grabbed his arm gently and began walking in the direction of the lake, urging him along in the hope that he would follow her willingly.

      ‘Come on then, I’ll show you. It’s a big silver monster with scales, like a giant fish.’

      ‘Chi-Chi, you know there’s no such thing as monsters, even big silver ones. You’re just making it all up anyway.’ Broders stamped his feet and bowed his head.

      ‘You’re not mad at me are you, Broders?’ Chi-Chi asked, in a soft voice, just like the one she had used to scare him with her monster trick.

      ‘Don’t be silly, Chi-Chi,’ Broders replied. Then he stamped his feet twice more.

      He knew Chi-Chi had got the better of him and he wasn’t about to let her get away with it. He decided for now just to think about some sort of revenge, a trick perhaps; maybe something to scare her… he will have to think long and hard about which kind of trick to play on her as she was hardly scared of anything at all!

      A sudden thought produced a cheeky smile, one that Chi-Chi knew all too well. Although he tried his best to hide it from her, she noticed it before he could turn away.

      ‘What’s that look for, Broders? What are you up to? Do you want to –’

      ‘Woof – woof!’ a faint high-pitched bark interrupted her. It was coming from the woods in the direction of Chi-Chi’s silver monster. They both stared at each other in silence. ‘Jellydoggie!’ they both cried together. Then Chi-Chi, fearless as she was, started to run off towards the woods.

      ‘Wait!’ Broders snapped, as he caught her arm just in time, preventing her from running away. ‘What about the monster?’

      ‘Oh, it’s in the lake,’ she said quickly, trying desperately to catch her breath. ‘We must go quickly, Jellydoggie has seen the monster and he may be in trouble.’

      ‘Don’t be silly,

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