Reginald, Prince of Baboons

By Rachael Long

Across the African Savannah, over, around or through the Lost Forest and straight up a high rocky outcrop, Reginald, Prince of Baboons was sitting in the dining room of his hilltop palace... If only things had remained that peaceful...

Reginald wants to fly to the moon - he’s tried before and failed...this time he is going by hot air balloon. However, things are never straightforward for Reginald...

Along the way he becomes entangled with a camel, is almost eaten by a vulture, gets rescued by disguised meerkats...and then there is the moth of myth ...Oh and Les Termites.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rachael Long
• Release date: Feb 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465916051

Rachael Long

Rachael Anne Long is the author of several ebooks, including the anarchic animal adventure series, The Lost Forest and the adult short story collection, First Person Singular. Rachael has previously worked for government departments and a national children’s charity. She lives in Somerset, England with her daughter and their orange rescue cat where she writes, bakes, eats cake and enjoys being herself.

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The Quite Unusual Tale of

Reginald, Prince of Baboons

A tale from the Lost Forest

By Rachael Long

Copyright 2012 Rachael Long

All rights reserved

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What is the Lost Forest?

Once, on the African savannah

a group of trees decided to join together and form a wood.

Over many years the wood grew into a forest and even got itself a name...

However, the forest’s name soon became forgotten

and instead everyone called the forest,

The Lost Forest.

Inside the forest lived many different animals ~

this is the quite unusual tale of just one..

.

The Quite Unusual Tale of

Reginald, Prince of Baboons

Contents

Part One

Being a beginning

In which, on a Wednesday or a Tuesday,

Reginald, Prince of Baboons sets off

for the moon...in a hot air balloon.

Part Two

The bit that arrives before the middle bit

Involving a crash landing, a camel

and a walk in the desert:

Part Three

Being the part sometime before

The Ending

In which Reginald and his companion are

rescued from being eaten by a vulture

and returned to the Lost Forest

Part Four

Being the part that comes

Just before, and leads onto

The End

While the tree monkeys look on,

Reginald has a discussion

about a myth

Reginald, Prince of Baboons

Some time ago, perhaps many, many years...although some say it was really only past the weekend that has just ended. So, probably last week maybe around lunchtime on Wednesday or even Tuesday; across the African Savannah, over, around or through the Lost Forest and straight up a high rocky outcrop, Reginald, Prince of Baboons was sitting