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    The Perils of Perigrine
    The Perils of Perigrine
    The Perils of Perigrine
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    The Perils of Perigrine

    By Derek Goddard-Nickolls

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    Number One in the series of Peri the Sea Dragon from author Derek Goddard-Nickolls who, with Peri, will delight children for years to come.
    Peri the lovable Sea Dragon is captured and shrunk into a painting by a nasty Wizard. His adventures start when he escapes from the painting and with the help of friendly creatures and characters escapes from scrape after scrape to finally return home.

    A funny, touching and triumphant picture book story about a sea dragon who finds his own courage, personality and confidence. This super bumper book has great illustrations and a lot of moving and very funny stories too.

    ... A very sweet story with learning undercurrents – and very funny. – Christine S

    A really funny and wonderfully colourful romp of a story and picture book. All children and young teenagers will have fun reading this or hearing their parents read it aloud to them, the parents will enjoy it too :)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDerek Goddard-Nickolls
    Release dateDec 2, 2017
    ISBN9781370339587
    The Perils of Perigrine
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    Derek Goddard-Nickolls

    Derek Goddard-Nickolls is a former Financial Executive and now semi-retired business management consultant. He has two grown up children and 4 grandchildren and is very happily married and living in Norfolk, UK. He enjoyed his career but really enjoys writing stories for a 3rd age living! Derek has written two non-fiction books and one full length fiction novel and a Children’s story set that has just been completed and is a now available publication. “The Perils of Perigrine”.

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      The Perils of Perigrine - Derek Goddard-Nickolls

      The Perils of Perigrine

      By Derek Goddard-Nickolls

      Brief Outline:

      Perigrine or Peri as he is known, was created, like many other characters, as a result of a father wanting to educate and entertain his own children when they were not wanting to go to bed!

      Peri was put away in an old filing cabinet until the first grandson came along...some 30 years later. He was found whilst clearing out the ‘old rubbish.’

      Peri is a young sea Dragon who, due to a misadventure with a wizard, finds himself shrunk to a picture size. He has a series of adventures in various locations over 10 separate chapters and eventually finds his way home.

      THE PERILS OF PERIGRINE

      (His First 10 Adventures)

      The Wizard’s Castle

      The Enchanted Forest

      The Enchanted Lake

      The Enchanted Mountains

      The Enchanted Sea

      The Enchanted Undersea

      The Enchanted Islands

      The Enchanted Snowlands

      The Scary City

      The Return to Wizard Lake

      Peri’s Dictionary

      The Peri Song

      User license for the Smashwords edition

      The license to use this electronic book is for your personal use. Therefore, you can not resell it or give it away to other people. If you wish to share it, kindly acquire an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading it and you did not buy it or it was given to you for your exclusive use, please go to Smashwords.com and download your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the Author

      Print edition available at most online stores.

      Peri is a character created By Derek Goddard-Nickolls and is Trademark protected.

      He is available for use and reproduction only by negotiation and agreement in writing with:

      Derek Goddard-Nickolls PhD MBA FRSA

      Profderek@gmail.com

      © 2017

      Chapter One:

      The Wizard’s Castle

      Once upon a time on a lonely seashore of an island without a name, a painter was just putting the finishing touches to a beautiful picture of the sea and the caves in the cliffs, when he suddenly saw a bigger wave than all the others come crashing onto the white sandy shore.

      Riding high on the white frothy top of the wave was a big smiling sea dragon. He was all green and gold with his brilliant scales flashing in the red light of the evening sun.

      The painter, who was really an old wizard, shouted loudly hey, hey you there, can I paint you please? You look great.

      The dragon, whose name was Peri didn’t say anything at first. He just slowly started preening himself, picking off bits of seaweed and the odd whelk from his scales, then, he started posing for the artist.

      Peri the sea dragon was, it seemed, a very vain dragon, who liked to be seen looking good!

      He took a big breath, smelling the sea air, then Peri said ok I’m ready now but the wizard had already started painting.

      At first Peri didn’t notice, when he did, it was too late.

      The wizard had started painting with the feet and tail of Peri, but, as Peri was holding his head up high he did not see at first, that his feet, lovely shiny claws and his special tail were vanishing onto the painting.

      A little reddish shore crab ran in front of Peri who looked down and saw NOTHING!

      His feet had gone!

      Hey, Mr Painter, STOP! What is happening to me? I’m disappearing! Stop! Stop!

      The wizard smiled an evil smile, cackled loudly and laughed, waving his scrawny arms.

      Ha, ha, another one for my collection, I’ve got you now. There is no escape from my pictures. Ha, ha, he cackled again then skipped and danced a bit.

      By this time Peri’s wings and body were gone, there was just his head left hanging in the air with no visible means of support.

      Oh my goodness, said Peri I’ve disappeared! Where have I gone to?

      The wizard laughed again, and talking to himself as much as to Peri said Oh ho, this is a real prize I’ve got here, a real sea dragon to add to my collection.

      Peri, at least feeling whole again, squeaked in a small voice from the painting saying I’m not collectible, I’m a sea dragon and I want to be free again.

      Unpaint me please!

      The wizard had been walking up the hill back to his castle with Peri under his arm. He went into a dark dismal laboratory and hung Peri on the wall, right next to the other paintings with lots of people and animals in. The paintings were very close together and all magic, so the people and animals could visit each other’s paintings.

      Peri didn’t know that, so he was surprised when a small black spider with funny blotches all over him came into his painting and said…

      Sssch, don’t tell anyone I’m here with you.

      Where is here? asked Peri.

      You mean you don’t know you’re a prisoner of Magnus the Mage in his castle?

      What’s a Mage? asked Peri.

      Gosh, you’ve got a lot to learn in a short space of time! squeaked the spider.

      A Mage is a wizard, a magician and a powerful one at that, said the spider.

      He certainly is a mean old Mage said Peri grumpily.

      Anyway, that’s not what I want to…

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