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    Out of the Ark
    Out of the Ark
    Out of the Ark
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    Out of the Ark

    By Sheena Mitchell and Anne Thomas

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    This delightful collection of charmingly told animal stories started out as bedtime reading for the authors grandchildren, some ideas of whom contributed to its inspiration. Here you will meet such characters as a little duck who refuses to fly south for the winter with the other ducks because he wants to be independent, Jasper the scaredy-cat who is afraid of everything until he meets little Calico, and a field mouse who constantly exaggerates and never really listens, with unexpectedly dangerous consequences for her family. Interspersed with the stories are funny poems and questions to make you think. Although the animals are frankly humanised, the authors voice is never condescending but supremely natural. Principles to enable a child to cope with lifes challenges are communicated in an imaginative and sensitive manner.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateApr 12, 2012
    ISBN9781466914933
    Out of the Ark
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    Sheena Mitchell

    As an experienced parent, grandmother, and retired minister, Sheena Mitchell knows what children like. The stories she tells with rich imagination and homely touch were tried out first as bedtime reading, on the grandchildren for whose sake she took early retirement. Her narration of the stories has been enthusiastically received by both pupils and teachers in Scottish primary schools.

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      Out of the Ark - Sheena Mitchell

      © Copyright 2012 SHEENA MITCHELL.

      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, without the written prior permission of the author.

      Illustrated by Anne Thomas

      Printed in the United States of America.

      ISBN:   978-1-4669-1489-6 (sc)

                   978-1-4669-1493-3 (e)

      Trafford rev. 04/03/12

      7-Copyright-Trafford_Logo.ai    www.trafford.com

      North America & international

      toll-free: 1 888 232 4444 (USA & Canada)

      phone: 250 383 6864 ♦ fax: 812 355 4082

      Dedicated to my brother Ian

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      I would like to thank those of my family and friends who have encouraged me to publish these little stories and poems, which began as bedtime stories for my grandsons James and Matthew.

      Thank you, James, for helping me with the plot of ‘Jasper the Scaredy Cat’, and your suggestion for a story about a snail and a slug, that became the poem The Snail, the Slug and the Little Red Bug. Keep the ideas coming, James!

      A special thank you to Alison Black, who not only proofread the manuscript but also has encouraged me greatly, and taught me many things in the process. Thank you, Alison, for the many hours you have spent with me on the telephone.

      I want to thank Anne Thomas for her wonderful illustrations. Anne, they are delightful! . . . just as I envisioned they should be.

      Contents

      OUT OF THE ARK

      DON’T DO IT

      TOBY THE INDEPENDENT DUCK

      WHY?

      FLY, LITTLE BIRD, FLY

      THE SNAIL, THE SLUG AND

      THE LITTLE RED BUG

      JASPER THE SCAREDY CAT

      THE MOUSE

      A TALE OF TWO SONS

      IT TAKES ALL SORTS

      TILLY TATTLE-TALE

      SLEEPING WITH LIONS

      THE VISITOR

      THE LITTLE DONKEY

      OUT OF THE ARK

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      The lioness awoke from a fitful sleep, stretched out her long body, and lay very still, listening to sounds that only she seemed to hear. Suddenly she sat up!

      Theodore, wake up, she said to her mate as she nudged him with her nose. Something is going on upstairs.

      Oh, go back to sleep, Nia, sighed Theodore the lion, as he curled up his body in an attempt to get more comfortable. They’re probably just preparing our food, he said with a big yawn.

      It is too early for that, Theodore, she insisted. There was a bump, and then I’m sure I heard a creaking noise like the big door being opened, and the humans all seem excited about something.

      Would you two be quiet, sounded a voice out of the dark. Can’t a leopard get some sleep?

      "I’m sorry, Lui. I know that you don’t like to be disturbed before you’re ready, but Nia seems to think that someone has opened the

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