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    Thistle Fables
    Thistle Fables
    Thistle Fables
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    Thistle Fables

    By David Watkins and Sandi McCreadie

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    In a quiet garden filled with outrageous vegetable characters, a rutabaga wants more than anything to change his name. Frustrated and tired of being called Roota-Toota-Rutabaga, he summons the help of all the other vegetables who soon teach him a valuable lesson.

    Potter the Bear is going to market with his honey in a bowl atop his head when he begins imagining all the wonderful things he can buy with the money he will make. But when the bees overhear his plans, they elect to show him in their own special way what is more important.

    After a beautiful butterfly spies an equally beautiful object on the ground below her, she swoops down to investigate and discovers it is just a lowly snail. When she challenges the creature to a race, the butterfly soon realizes that beauty may not always get her what she wants.

    Thistle Fables is a collection of fables that touch on common emotional challenges children face in todays worldfrom bullying to feeling acceptedwhile sharing important life lessons designed to inspire all ages.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchway Publishing
    Release dateOct 29, 2013
    ISBN9781480803121
    Thistle Fables
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    David Watkins

    David Watkins is a former member of the RAF and a keen aviation historian with previous works including a history of RAF Chivenor, the de Havilland Vampire and Venom, 501 (County of Gloucester) Sqn, RAuxAF and a history of RAF aerobatic teams from 1920.

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      Thistle Fables - David Watkins

      Thistle Fables

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      Written by Sandi McCreadie

      Illustrated by David Watkins and Sandi McCreadie

      Copyright © 2013 Sandi McCreadie.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4808-0313-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4808-0312-1 (e)

      Archway Publishing rev. date: 10/25/2013

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      Contents

      Roota-Toota-Rutabaga

      The Bear and His Honey

      The King Crab and the Sea Star

      The Skunk and the Grapes

      You’re as Cute as

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