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    Jellybean the Dragon: Jellybean the Dragon Stories
    Jellybean the Dragon: Jellybean the Dragon Stories
    Jellybean the Dragon: Jellybean the Dragon Stories
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    Jellybean the Dragon: Jellybean the Dragon Stories

    By Elias Zapple

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    Jellybean is a clumsy dragon. As a matter of fact, all dragons are clumsy. So when Jellybean falls from the sky and lands in front of Emma, a 10 year-old astronaut, naturally a series of calamitous events occur forcing Emma to eventually leave her land and meet more clumsy dragons. However, Emma soon learns to live with Jellybean and experience a whole new and exciting life as well as improve her vocabulary!
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHeads or Tales Press
    Release dateJul 5, 2017
    ISBN9781386354208
    Jellybean the Dragon: Jellybean the Dragon Stories
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    Elias Zapple

    Elias Zapple was not born in 1922, as some would have you believe. His date of birth is not really relevant anyway. What is relevant is that he arose out of a tulip that was growing in some old granny's garden in Camberwell. How he got to be in a tulip is not really clear, nor is it clear how he got out of the tulip, and years later wrote the smash hit musical, 'Love, be a Stranger', which was an international flop. After that success, he went on to work as a 19th century Victorian chimney sweep, when he was inspired to write the acclaimed series of books entitled 'Duke & Michel'. It is believed the fumes from the chimneys did so much damage to Elias, that it was a miracle he ever ate a cupcake again.  Later, he travelled back in time to the present, and went on a series of trips to many foreign and distant lands. During these travels, Elias met and listened to many interesting people, choosing to ignore all of them. He did, however, learn a couple of things: i) the earth is flat; and ii) you should never eat a banana when it's not ripe. Many questions are often asked by his adoring public. Are you human? How many chimpanzees can fit inside a fridge? What is that thing growing on the side of your head? To which Mr Zapple has always smiled, turned away and swum off into the sunset; having only once been bitten by an unfriendly shark. Elias Zapple continues to work towards the unification of Korea, and writing children's stories that parents will spend huge sums of money on. He wishes you all to know that every penny made from the books will go straight into his bank account, which he will then spend on a lavish, new tent.

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      Jellybean the Dragon - Elias Zapple

      Copyright

      © Elias Zapple, 2011

      Illustrated by Ilaeira Misirlou

      Special thanks to Joyce Wong

      Disclaimer

      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to real persons/dragons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

      Dedication

      For dragons everywhere

      Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Disclaimer

      Dedication

      Chapter One – Jellybean the Dragon

      Chapter Two – Missing Mangoes

      Chapter Three - The Continuing Nuisance of Jellybean

      Chapter Four – Planet Zanu

      Chapter Five – The Feast

      Chapter Six – The Battle of the Limbs

      Chapter Seven – One Limb or Two?

      Jellybean’s Selected Vocabulary

      Who is Elias Zapple?

      Also by Elias Zapple

      A Request from Elias Zapple

      One

      Jellybean the Dragon

      In the middle of a lush, green forest surrounded by apple trees, oak trees, cherry trees, lemon trees, orange trees, cedar trees, cinnamon trees, banyan trees, candyfloss trees and every other kind of tree that may or may not exist, stood a grey-coloured, English-style castle with four towers and a drawbridge. The drawbridge was lowered over a moat, in which grisly, snappy crocodiles were said to live. Luckily they were very shy crocodiles and therefore rarely ever seen. In fact, the townspeople often queried whether there were any crocodiles at all and wondered if this wasn’t some fib told by the castle’s owner to make them stay away.

      The castle’s owner, a girl of 10 called Emma, (how she got to have the castle at such a tender age is a tragic tale and one that will be told shortly… unless I forget), was sat on a chaise longue dressed in her astronaut’s suit, sipping from a glass of freshly-squeezed orange juice. How she became an astronaut is quite an amazing story and one that I’ll tell now. Outer space, the stars, the planets, and the galaxies, fascinated Emma and so she’d attended astronaut school, where she graduated as an astronaut. Maybe it wasn’t quite such an amazing story after all.

      As Emma sat there, relaxed, smile upon her peachy face, sun beaming down upon her strawberry blonde hair that hung over the headrest of her chaise longue, she admired the view. Taking in her old and magnificent castle, her moat, her space rocket on its launch pad, the trees that were so close together that they looked like one multi-coloured tree and the great blue sky which had a dot in it that was getting bigger and bigger.

      A dot? Emma said.

      There was now a noise too and it was growing louder.

      I wonder what that is. It sounds like somebody screaming. What is that?

      The noise grew even louder - as did the dot. It looked like…

      No way!

      It looked like a dragon!

      Agh! the dragon screamed before landing with a huge bump right in front of Emma.

      Ow! the dragon said.

      It really is a dragon! Are you all right? asked Emma.

      The red and green dragon was around ten metres long with huge wings. It held its head with both its hands. Emma approached, with small steps and ready to make a run for it but then got close enough and prodded it with a stick which had somehow worked its way into her hand.

      What are you doing? Ow, my head! the dragon said with a youthful, deep voice.

      You’re real!

      Yes, so stop poking me! It hurts!

      May I touch you?

      Emma didn’t wait for a response and gathering up all her courage she felt the dragon’s belly.

      You’re all leathery.

      The finest! he said.

      "How did you fall from the sky? Why did

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