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    Cubby And The Beanstalk
    Cubby And The Beanstalk
    Cubby And The Beanstalk
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    Cubby And The Beanstalk

    By Victoria Zigler

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    When Cubby’s Mother tells him to take their old goat to market and sell her so they can buy food, Cubby ends up trading the goat for a bag of magic wishing beans. His Mother is furious, and in her rage throws the beans outside and sends Cubby to bed. You may think that was the end, but you’d be wrong! In fact, it’s just the beginning!

    Loosely based on the stories of ‘Jack And The Beanstalk’ and ‘The Magic Cooking Pot’, this is the story of a hungry little polar bear and his journey up the beanstalk to the home of the magical giant skybears.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVictoria Zigler
    Release dateAug 26, 2014
    ISBN9781310906428
    Cubby And The Beanstalk
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    Victoria Zigler

    Victoria Zigler is a blind vegan poet and children's author. Born and raised in the shadow of the Black Mountains of Wales, UK, she moved away from Wales three times: once to spend six months living in Alberta, Canada, the other times to spend a few years living near Hastings on the South-East coast of England, UK, each time returning to Wales. Now she lives in Wales again, along with a chinchilla named Mollie, a West Highland White Terrier named Lilie, a Cavapoo named Logan, a Hermann’s Tortoise named Artemis, and her Canadian husband, Kelly.Despite spending far too much time in hospital, and eventually losing her sight to Congenital Glaucoma, Victoria - or Tori, if you prefer - has been writing since she knew how, with no plans to stop any time soon. So far she has published 11 poetry books and 46 children’s books. Tori is also a contributor of the sci-fi and fantasy anthology Wyrd Worlds II, as well as the Poetry Treasures anthology. Additionally, her Hermann’s Tortoise, Artemis, was featured in both the Magnificent Pets Coloring Book For Children and the Magnificent Pets Mandala Coloring Book For Adults.Vegan due to both a love for animals and dairy allergy, as well as an Eclectic Pagan, Tori describes herself as a combination of Hermione Granger and Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter books: Hermione’s thirst for knowledge and love of books, combined with Luna’s wandering mind and alternative way of looking at the world. She has a wide variety of interests, designed to exercise both the creative and logical sides of her brain, and dabbles in them at random depending on what she feels like doing at any given time, but is most likely to be found playing with her petkids, curled up somewhere with a cup of tea and a book, or trying to keep one step ahead of those pesky typo fairies while writing her own books.

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      Cubby And The Beanstalk - Victoria Zigler

      Cubby And The Beanstalk

      By Victoria Zigler

      Published by Victoria Zigler at Smashwords

      Copyright © 2014 Victoria Zigler

      Cover art by Karl Mousley - copyright © 2014

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

      This book is a work of fiction. This book is loosely based on a combination of the stories of 'Jack And The Beanstalk' and 'The Magic Cooking Pot', with the author’s own twists on the tales thrown in. Apart from that, the people, animals, places and events in this book are the products of the imagination of the author, or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance in this book to works by other authors, other than the already mentioned stories that were the inspiration for it, is entirely coincidental.

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      Once upon a time, on a large mountain that looked over a tiny village, there lived a little polar bear, with fur as white as snow, little black eyes that shone like polished jet, and a big black nose. His name was Cubby, and he lived with his mother in a little wooden house.

      Apart from each other, Cubby and his Mother had almost nothing in the world, except their little wooden house, a few pieces of battered wooden furniture that had seen better days, a few basic household items, and an old goat. They were often hungry, and would have been cold often too if it weren’t for the thick, white fur that covered them both.

      It’s no good, said Cubby’s Mother one evening. We just can’t go on like this.

      What do you mean, Mother? Cubby asked, his little black eyes full of confusion.

      We need to eat, his Mother told him. But we have no food, and no money. We have nothing.

      We have each other, Cubby answered.

      Yes, his Mother agreed. "But, though having each other is more important than having possessions, we

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