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    Rudolf Goes Bananas
    Rudolf Goes Bananas
    Rudolf Goes Bananas
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    Rudolf Goes Bananas

    By Mike Thomas

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    It’s all change at Santa’s workshop in the North Pole.
    All the reindeer have left to do their own thing around the world. Only Rudolf remains to steer Santa’s new high tech sleigh – that’s when he’s not bungee jumping or doing any of the other extreme sports he now loves.
    Santa has been forced to upgrade his sleigh to keep up with all the extra Christmas presents he needs to deliver. It now has so many new gadgets he needs even more help from his clever elf friends.
    However, one year Rudolf returns from his holiday like a different reindeer. He now loves bananas and spends all his time eating them and acting strangely. This makes poor Mrs Claus very worried about Santa and the sleigh.
    Things quickly start to go wrong on Christmas Eve after the new sleigh takes-off, making all the elves at the North Pole even busier than usual. Little do they know this disaster was no accident, and everyone must help to save Christmas.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Thomas
    Release dateNov 18, 2011
    ISBN9781465986382
    Rudolf Goes Bananas
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    Mike Thomas

    MIKE THOMAS authored the critically acclaimed oral history The Second City Unscripted: Revolution and Revelation at the World-Famous Comedy Theater (Villard, 2009) and is a longtime arts/entertainment staff writer at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he frequently writes about comedy. Over the years he has interviewed numerous renowned comics and comedic actors, including Louis C.K., Stephen Colbert, Bill Cosby, Rodney Dangerfield, Phyllis Diller, Bob Newhart, Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Williams, Sarah Silverman and Jon Stewart. His national magazine work has appeared in Esquire, Playboy and Smithsonian. He lives in Chicago with his wife and their two daughters.

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      Book preview

      Rudolf Goes Bananas - Mike Thomas

      Rudolf Goes Bananas

      By Mike Thomas.

      Illustrated by Julie Askey

      Published by Mike Thomas at Smashwords.

      Copyright 2011 Mike Thomas.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 - All Change

      Chapter 2 - Last Minute Preparations

      Chapter 3 - Ground Control

      Chapter 4 - Things Go Wrong

      Chapter 5 - It’s Getting Worse

      Chapter 6 - Finding Santa

      Chapter 7 - Making Progress

      Chapter 8 - Where’s Rudolf?

      Chapter 9 - The Rescue Team

      Chapter 10 - A Big Surprise

      Chapter 1 – All Change.

      Do you believe in Santa?

      If you do, then he’ll be very relieved, thank you very much. But if you don’t, then I know his wife will be very unhappy. In fact she’ll be really angry!

      She may be so short that she only comes up to Santa’s chest when she’s wearing her special high heeled Christmas boots, but don’t ever cross her. No, no, no, that would not be a good idea. She may be the real Santa’s little helper, but don’t be fooled by her size or lack of it, especially after last year’s trouble. Just thinking back to it still makes her heart jump a few beats because it all went so wrong. To think that some silly children don’t even care what her lovely husband does for them every year without fail. They should be ashamed of themselves.

      Mrs Claus was busy at work in her very large kitchen baking cakes, mince pies and delicious cookies. She did this each day for everyone at the North Pole and it made her very happy. She never tired of the lovely smell wafting through the air and she knew everyone else loved it too. The elves and reindeer all enjoyed their tea breaks when she brought her trolley of goodies through the workshops for them, and Santa was sure the treats made them all work harder too.

      There was a knock at the door and in popped the head of an elf called Loopy. Have you heard? he asked.

      Heard what? replied Mrs Claus, still rolling out pastry.

      Loopy opened the door further and walked in. Santa has crashed the sleigh again.

      He what? exclaimed Mrs Claus, spinning around to glare at Loopy, Is he okay? What happened?

      Yes, he’s fine, answered the elf in a calm voice. Loopy stopped as he spotted the cakes and pies on the kitchen tops then made his way towards them. He was out testing a few new things on the sleigh and something went wrong, he continued, reaching out for a cup cake.

      Mrs Claus noticed what he was doing and quickly smacked the back of his hand with a wooden spoon. He should be more careful at his age, and so should Rudolf! she said in her very strict voice.

      It wasn’t Rudolf out there, replied Loopy, He’s on holiday at Donner’s place. It was Eddie who was testing the sleigh with Santa.

      What, Prancer and Vixen’s eldest? she asked in surprise.

      Yup, replied Loopy, But it wasn’t his fault either. I heard it was something technical that didn’t work.

      While Mrs Claus had her back turned he quickly grabbed a cake and headed for the door again. I’m just off to see what happened! he called, and left Mrs Claus to get back to her baking.

      Loopy scurried off through the bright, colourfully lit corridors of the North Pole’s main building. He headed for Santa’s take off and landing site, stuffing lovely warm cake into his mouth as he went. It wasn’t long before he was standing in front of Santa’s sleigh and he stared at it in amazement. This was the newest version of Santa’s sleigh and there had been more than a few changes and updates recently.

      For a start off, the original eight reindeer had left the North Pole. They wanted a change from what they’d done for years and years, and they weren’t getting any younger. It had always been up to them to pull Santa along, but they had

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