Skipper the Kangaroo has a Desert Adventure

By Brian Leo Lee

Lost in the desert, Skipper and his friend have a series of problems to overcome before they can get back home.
They have to cope with being too hot, to wet, marooned and dangerous animals. Fortunately, they are helped by unexpected friends.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brian Leo Lee
• Release date: Aug 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466066878

Brian Leo Lee

The author was born in Manchester. On leaving school, a period in accountancy was followed by a teaching career in Primary Education.Several years of telling his own stories to his two, then young children, when on camping holidays, led to the development of his many story characters, especially Bouncey the Elf. Now retired, living in South Yorkshire.Latest books,Tales from Sty-Pen –Swerlie-Wherlie’s New FriendSwerlie-Wherlie Meets Sox the FoxSwerlie-Wherlie and Bulfrey the Bull'Trimefirst' and 'Domain of the Netherworld', written under the pen name, Brian Leon Lee.

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Skipper the Kangaroo

has a

Desert Adventure

Brian Leo Lee

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Copyright 2011 Brian Leo Lee

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Skipper the Kangaroo

has a

Desert Adventure

It was hot in the desert. So hot that the two young kangaroos, Skipper and his best friend Legs, were looking for a shady place to rest in. They were lost and trying to find their way home.

The heat of the sun was making them feel dizzy as they slowly climbed up a small hill.

As they passed a jumble of rocks Skipper saw a dark hole, partly hidden by one big boulder.' Legs! Legs!' he shouted. 'Look a cave.'

Legs slowly lifted his head and looked at the cave. 'Will it be cooler inside?' he asked hopefully.

'Yes, it will be,' said Skipper. 'Come on. Let's get inside away from this heat as fast as we can.'

'Oooh! That's nice,' said Legs a short time later. He was lying down, deep inside the cool shade of the cave. He then closed his eyes