Ponty Green Bear and the Storm Machine

By Robert Smith?

A mysterious stranger calls Ponty Green Bear to tell him he's lost and wants to be found. Ponty rushes off to help him before he finds out who the stranger is. Luckily for Ponty, he bumps into his friend, George the Spider, who is very good at making lists of things to do and things that can go wrong. Before they find the stranger, they find a mixed-up machine that makes big mud storms.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Smith?
• Release date: Aug 20, 2010
• ISBN: 9780986708718

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Ponty Green Bear and the Storm Machine

by Robert Arthur Smith

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Copyright 2010, Robert Arthur Smith

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Chapter 1: The Lost Person

Sometimes adventures begin when you least expect them. You might be getting ready for bed, for instance, when a small dragon flies in through your window and steals one of your broccoli cookies.

Or you might be pouring milk on your spinach flakes when a giant squeezes herself through the back door, trips over a bucket of worms, and falls into your cement mixer.

You never know what's going to happen, really.

Ponty Green Bear's adventure began while he was searching through a jumble of boxes and tins in his pantry to see if he had any cinnamon donuts left.

Ponty is a green bear, and green bears, as you know, love cinnamon donuts almost as much as they love broccoli ice cream.

Anyway, Ponty was poking through boxes of beets, nets of onions, piles of turnips and bags of broccoli, when the telephone rang.

Drat! he said.

Now he'd have to stop looking for donuts and start looking for his telephone.

Ponty lived in a very messy house in a place called the Lime Forest. It was called the Lime Forest because there weren't any lime trees in it, only poplars, pine trees, fir trees, apple trees, chestnut trees, oak trees, willows and birch trees.

That should be enough trees for anyone!

Anyway, Ponty never put anything away, and he hardly ever cleaned and dusted. That was why he could never find anything.

The telephone rang seven times, and then it rang seven more times.

Drat! said Ponty.

He looked under a pile of shirts and sweaters on the kitchen table, and behind a pile of 'Super Bear' comics on a coffee