The Lonely Christmas Tree

By John Dony

A beautiful childrens tale about family, friendship, an adventure into danger with some very unlikely heroes! Join Richard and Elizabeth as they journey out of the small town to the snow covered mountain to try to find the answers they so desparately need answering. As they race across frozen lakes to a childhood memory that haunts them. Readers of all ages will enjoy this lovely adventure.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Dony
• Release date: Jun 21, 2014
• ISBN: 9780955832345

John Dony

I was born in Bedford 1967 and studied English Literature in Dunstable where I grew up, I now live in Devon with my wife Jill and 5 daughters.My early writing career consisted mostly of short stories told to my children. My first children's novel ‘Emily and the Spider' has received praise from schools and Libraries across the world, where it has been used as a study aid for Primary school pupils in Story and Character development.My latest book Victoria Swan is part 2 of the Swan Trilogy and is available from my site as an ebook.I have a Passion for telling stories that value love, friendship, good old fashioned story telling, good vs bad and of course happy endings.

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The Lonely Christmas Tree

John R Dony

Smashwords Edition

Copyright © 2014 by John R. Dony

All Rights Reserved.

This little book is dedicated to Heather,

Who created Edward.

Thank-you x.

Table of Contents

1000 years ago Christmas Eve.

Chapter 1 Today at School (Late December).

Chapter 2 Richard and Elizabeth.

Chapter 3 Why they don’t celebrate Christmas.

Chapter 4 Arts and Crafts.

Chapter 5 The Janitor Cleans up!

Chapter 6 The Rescue of Edward (and his friends).

Chapter 7 Waking Up.

Chapter 8 Betrayed

Chapter 9 To the mountain!

Chapter 10 Decorating the tree

Chapter 11 The Blizzard

Chapter 12 Miss Bradfield and Daddy Climb the Mountain.

Chapter 13 A perilous rescue and a brave sacrifice.

Chapter 14 Santa meet er...Santa!

Chapter 15 Home.

Epiloque

The lonely Christmas tree

Lets begin this story about 1000 years ago up in the rocky mountains of North America, well to be exact in a small town called Granby not too far from the Rocky Mountains, although back then the town didn’t exist, or the airport or the cemetery, but to make things simple this IS where it all started. In amongst a group of tall fir trees lived a family of Squirrels, and these squirrels would save all the nuts and seeds they could, to see them through the winter, now this particular year, the squirrels had been arguing, mainly about nuts, and too cut a long story short one of the furry mammals got fed up and decided to take his seeds and nuts and move. So that night the little squirrel gathered up his belongings and left the safety of the Fir trees and slowly headed north. It took him about four days to finally get to a new group of trees that he decided would make a good home. It was what occurred on the way that this bit of the story is really about. You see a short way into his journey, after climbing hills, jumping small streams, going around a lake and trying to avoid being eaten, the Squirrel stopped to sleep. Under a rock. In a small valley. Pretty much hidden from the rest of the world. And that’s when it happened, the Squirrel had a bad dream, I don’t know what about, you can make that bit up for yourself, and when he woke with a start he accidentally knocked over his small bag of seeds and nuts, and out they all poured. The squirrel cursed his bad luck, gathered up his spilled belongings and carried on his journey. But he hadn’t picked up everything. One small seed had been missed; it had rolled out from under the rock and had lodged itself in a small crack. And there it sat and waited, for some rain, a bit of sun and a lot of luck. And in time the seed grew and grew and grew…Now some things happen for a reason and this was one of those reason happening things. Of course the tree didn’t know any of this was happening but at some point in its very long life it would be the bravest tree that ever grew.

Chapter 1

Today at School – Late December.

Come on, will you hurry up, get your boots on, have you got your school shoes in your bag?, No! Why not? Look we can’t be late again, please get a move on! Elizabeth and Richards Daddy opened the front door, pushed the screen shutter back and felt the cold winter morning biting at his chest