Alfonso and the Prickly Visitor Book Sample
Enjoy the first 8 pages from
Alfonso and the Prickly Visitor by Susan Moffat,
available from
Amazon in both Kindle e-book and paperback.
Alfonso
and the Prickly Visitor also includes a FREE colouring book.
The
colouring book is subject to availability.
Alfonso
and the Prickly Visitor by
Susan Moffat
Alfonso
the tortoise was just about to take a bite out of a rather large
berry, when he heard the flap of wings.
‘Greetings Your Highness,’
said a beautiful blue and orange bird.
‘Hi Jeremy. Do you have
any news from my parents?’ asked Alfonso. He had made his Mum and
Dad very cross when he had decided to go off on an adventure, rather
than helping at home. He had sent a message to his parents a week ago
to say sorry.
Jeremy hung his head in
sadness. ‘Yes, Your Highness. I’m afraid that the King says that
he’s still very angry with you. The King says that you need to
return to the palace straight away.’
‘Oh no, that’s terrible.
I’m not ready to go back. I just love life here in the Land of
Garden too much,’ said Alfonso, feeling very sorry for himself.
‘Life was so boring in the
palace,’ he continued. ‘All those animals coming with their
problems. Dad said that it was my duty to hear all their troubles,
and that there wasn’t time for fun. But what kind of life is that?’
‘I’m sure it was hard
Your Majesty. But you need to find some way to be forgiven by the
King and Queen,’ advised Jeremy.
‘Hmm, surely there is some
way I can stay here, but still make things right with my parents. I
just want to be able to choose what I do with my life.’
‘I know you do Your
Majesty, hopefully you will come up with a solution soon and things
will be better with the King and Queen again.’
‘I know. I will think of
something,’ said Alfonso, feeling determined.
Just then Alfonso heard a
sniffling noise coming from behind the hut. He turned around slowly,
as tortoises do, to see a little nose sticking out. A very strange
spiky looking character wandered out in front of him.
‘Excuse me Mr Tortoise and
Mr Bird,’ said the visitor with a squeaky voice, ‘my name’s
Eric.’
‘My name is Prince
Alfonso,’ said Alfonso, ‘and this is my friend Jeremy.’
‘Wow, a Prince! That’s
amazing!’ uttered Eric, astonished to meet a real life Prince.
‘Where have you come from?
You weren’t here when he I started eating my lunch?’ asked
Alfonso.
Eric gave a shy smile, ‘I
was watching you,’ he answered. ‘Mr Prince, sir, please could I
have a little of your food, I’m ever so hungry?’
Alfonso looked at Eric. He
was ever so small and was indeed quite scrawny looking. ‘Of course!
Help yourself!’
Eric scurried up to
Alfonso’s red food bowl, and sniffed the contents. They smelt
wonderful. He ate a few berries and felt much better. ‘Oh Mr
Prince, sir, that was amazing! Thank you so much!’
Alfonso studied the little
fellow. ‘What are you might I ask? Where do you live? Does your
owner not feed you like mine does?’ queried Alfonso.
‘I’m a hedgehog Mr
Prince, sir. The likes of us don’t get to be pets, so I haven’t
got an owner.’ Eric stared sadly at the green grass.
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