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    Snips, Snails & Puppy Dog Tales: A Children's Story Collection
    Snips, Snails & Puppy Dog Tales: A Children's Story Collection
    Snips, Snails & Puppy Dog Tales: A Children's Story Collection
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    Snips, Snails & Puppy Dog Tales: A Children's Story Collection

    By The Indie Collaboration

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    Another collection of free poems and stories brought to you by The Indie Collaboration. This time we take you to a world of dreams. To far-away lands of magic and wonder, where ducks and children have adventures and learn about the world; where heroes help their friends and elephants get lost.

    So pack your lunch box, grab your coat and shoes and join us in a land of make believe.

    I can't wait. Can you?

    The Indie Collaboration grew out of a group of like minded independent authors. Together, we decided to show the world how great works of fiction can be created without the involvement of any large publishing companies; creating a direct channel between ourselves and our readers is of the utmost importance to us. Each author has freely donated their time and work and are committed to the Indie Collaboration's cause of:

    We offer the best of indie authors in bite size pieces and wherever possible, for free.

    We hope you enjoy our books.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter John
    Release dateApr 14, 2014
    ISBN9781311580894
    Snips, Snails & Puppy Dog Tales: A Children's Story Collection
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    The Indie Collaboration

    The Indie Collaboration grew out of a group of like minded independent authors. Together, we decided to show the world how great works of fiction can be created without the involvement of any large publishing companies; creating a direct channel between ourselves and our readers is of the utmost importance to us. Each author has freely donated their time and work and are committed to the Indie Collaboration's cause of:Offering the best of indie authorsin bite size pieces for free.We hope you enjoy our books

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    Snips, Snails & Puppy Dog Tales - The Indie Collaboration

    POCKETS

    By Kristina Blasen

    Mama does the laundry and what does she find?

    Snips!

    What's a snip you ask? Why, it's little bits of this and that - all the things you find in little girls' and little boys' pockets.

    Not so many years ago, brother's pockets held Lego bits, little black tires with no car attached, rubber bands to launch stuff with, pennies, paper bits, chewing gum and blue Bic pens that sure do make a mess when mama washes them.

    Luckily, I don't think she ever did find any snails, or puppy dog's tails (like the old rhyme says), but once she found a worm in a pocket full of dirt and it was still alive! Eww! Boy was she mad...once she stopped screeching! She touched it! It wiggled!

    Little sister has pockets in her pants and dresses...when she was a baby they held lint and Cheerios... but now there's little pink bows, teeny-tiny baby dolls, pocket pets and delicate tea cups with rock hard sugar stuck to the bottom.

    What's in your pockets?

    © 2014 Kristina Blasen

    CHARLIE GOBBLEGIKE THE TRAVELLER

    By Alan Hardy

    Charlie Gobblegike lived in the village of the Gobblegikes.

    ***

    Charlie Gobblegike was different from all the other Gobblegikes.

    Charlie Gobblegike only had one arm because one time he had felt very hungry and had had no money to buy any food, so he had exchanged his left arm for three tins of sardines. He had gone to a village a long long way away to do it. It had taken him all of two days to walk there. He had exchanged his arm at the shop between the baker’s and the post-office. It was called THE SHOP THAT EXCHANGES FOOD OR NECKLACES FOR THINGS THAT HELP YOU SHAKE HANDS MORE EASILY.

    He was the only Gobblegike who had ever been there, because other Gobblegikes never went further than a distance of one mile from their village. But Charlie was different. He often disappeared from the village for days at a time, and he was known as Charlie Gobblegike the Traveller. Whenever the other Gobblegikes noticed he was missing, they would all wait excitedly for him to return, so they could hear his strange tales about the World beyond their village.

    He was popular with all the Gobblegikes, but there were six Gobblegikes who were his closest friends: Sally, Hector, Mandy, Edward, Daniel and John, who was the leader of all the Gobblegikes.

    ***

    One day Charlie Gobblegike was walking down the cobbled street of the village when he saw his friend, Daniel Gobblegike, looking very sad.

    Daniel Gobblegike looked like all the other Gobblegikes, with a long red beard, a big blue hat, yellow T-shirt and orange trousers with braces. Daniel Gobblegike had a white card pinned to the front of his shirt, with the name DANIEL written in black on it. This was the only way to tell the Gobblegikes apart. Charlie Gobblegike was the only Gobblegike not to have a card, because he was the one who always looked different. He didn’t have a beard, and he only had one arm.

    What’s the problem, Daniel? asked Charlie Gobblegike.

    Oh, something terrible, sighed Daniel Gobblegike, stroking his long red beard. The grass in my back-garden is so high and my lawn-mower is broken.

    Why don’t you buy a new one? asked Charlie Gobblegike.

    I don’t have any money, replied Daniel Gobblegike, two large tears rolling towards his beard.

    Don’t worry. I’ll get you a new lawn-mower, said Charlie Gobblegike, who had a good heart and always tried to help his friends when they were in trouble.

    But you don’t have any money either! exclaimed Daniel Gobblegike, looking even glummer.

    Don’t you worry, Daniel. I can do it.

    With that, Charlie Gobblegike strode off down the street, passing by all the identical purple-and-beige houses on either side, and swinging his arm to and fro.

    There he goes, all the other Gobblegikes whispered as they watched his figure becoming smaller and smaller in the distance. He’s off on his travels again. I wonder what tales he’ll have to tell this time.

    Charlie Gobblegike went straight to the village that was a long long way away, because he wanted to help his friend and cheer him up. When he got there he went to the shop next to the greengrocer’s. It was called THE SHOP THAT EXCHANGES LAWN-MOWERS FOR THINGS THAT HELP YOU SMELL OTHER THINGS MORE EASILY.

    Four days after he had spoken to Daniel Gobblegike, he returned. All the other Gobblegikes rushed out to greet him, and they cheered when they saw the lawn-mower. He gave it to Daniel Gobblegike, whose face broke out into a big grin, though you couldn’t really see much of it because of his long red beard.

    Thanks, Charlie, he said, but I don’t think I’ll be able to cut the grass today. Look at those big clouds. I think there’s going to be a storm. I can smell it in the air.

    I can’t, said Charlie Gobblegike.

    Look! He’s got no nose! exclaimed all the other Gobblegikes.

    ***

    A few days later, a freshly-shaven Charlie Gobblegike came out of the barber’s shop. It was called THE BARBER’S SHOP FOR CUTTING HAIR AND FOR CUTTING CHARLIE GOBBLEGIKE’S BEARD.

    He was whistling happily, but suddenly stopped. Sally Gobblegike was sitting on the bench in her tiny garden that looked like all the other gardens in the village. She was crying.

    Sally Gobblegike looked like all the other Gobblegikes who didn’t have long red beards and orange trousers with braces, but instead had long yellow hair and long pink dresses with red spots all over. Charlie Gobblegike knew it was Sally Gobblegike because she had a white card pinned to the front of her dress, with the name SALLY written

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