Emily and The Spider

By John Dony

Emily lives in a large white House on the edge of the Jungle with her parents and housekeeper.

Join Emily on her greatest adventure as she journeys through the Jungle to help her new best friend Bes find her father.

On the way she encounters new friends, dangerous rivers, Monkeys that can’t be trusted and Stripe, the self proclaimed King of the Jungle, who’s only plan is to have Emily and her friends for Dinner!

Emily and the Spider is a must have for all young readers book collections.

This heart warming adventure will have children and adults turning page after page as the story paces along to its gripping finish.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Dony
• Release date: Jul 9, 2011
• ISBN: 9780955832307

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.

Book preview

Emily and the Spider

By

John Dony

Smashwords Edition

Copyright © John Dony 2008

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers.

The right of John Dony to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

First published in the United Kingdom in 2008 by Shedbetter Publications

Contact the author: [e-mail]

Contact the illustrator: www.childrensillustrators.com/lorajones

Contact the publisher: [e-mail]

This book is dedicated to Emily (of course)

I would like to thank my wife Jill, for understanding the need to tell these stories,

I would like to thank my Mum and Dad who always let me be who I wanted,

I would like to thank Lora for her amazing artwork

and I would like to thank the kids, who are always a source of inspiration.

Contents

Chapter 1 Emily

Chapter 2 The Party

Chapter 3 Web

Chapter 4 The Birth

Chapter 5 Help!

Chapter 6 Bes

Chapter 7 The Letter

Chapter 8 New Friends

Chapter 9 Stripe!

Chapter 10 Out of the Frying Pan

Chapter 11 Orbs

Chapter 12 You can Choose your Friends

Chapter 13 Finding Emily

Chapter 14 Miss Perivale’s Lunch

Chapter 15 Farewells

Chapter 16 20 Years Later

Chapter 1 – Emily

Once upon a time, in a hot sunny country, there lived a little girl called Emily. She was Eight years old, with long blonde coloured hair and blue eyes. Her daddy was always telling her how beautiful she was and that one day she would grow up to be a very important person.

Emily’s house was white. White and very big! It was a wooden house with a veranda, which is sort of a walkway, all around the house. Emily could run around the whole house in a stunning 38 seconds. She used to time herself with her daddy’s best watch, just to see if she could improve every time she tried.

Emily’s father was an ambassador. She didn’t know much about it, except that it meant they had to go to different countries and make friends with lots of different people. Emily didn’t mind though, because at age seven, she had already seen more countries than most people see in any one lifetime.

The thing Emily did mind though was not having any friends. She had never lived anywhere quite long enough in order to make any.

Apart from that her life was very good. She went to lots of big parties with her parents(and generally fell asleep). She had a massive garden to play in, which was bordered by a jungle. She had all the toys she could ever want, but ‘little Em’, as her daddy always called her,