Amber’s Moonlight Adventure

By Guy Bullock

Amber’s friend Fuzzy is carried off by a fearsome winged monster. Armed with her trusty hockey stick and with some brave helpers she follows it to a mountain lair. They have terrifying adventures in inky caves, fleeing through scary forests, crossing deep underground lakes and fighting monsters high in the sky.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Guy Bullock
• Release date: Jun 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310347306

Guy Bullock

Guy Bullock is a former magazine deputy editor and writer, who has also worked as a newspaper reporter and sub-editor on South African publications..He has published several books for children, illustrated in colour by Tao and Amber Bullock. They are: Amber's Moonlight Adventure (for girls aged five to eight), Tao's Magic Tricks (girls eight to twelve). Tao herself (aged 13)has published (and illustrated) her own book, The Wicked Witch of Dark Castle.Guy has also written a humourous book for all ages, The Crown Crescent Chronicles, about his experiences as a landlord. All the above can be downloaded free from Smashwords, Kobo,Itunes, Nook,Scribd,Bibliotasdtic, Obooko, Goodreads and many other free book sites.

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Amber’s Moonlight Adventure

Guy Bullock

Copyright © 2015 Guy Bullock

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For Tao and Amber Bullock

CHAPTER 1

Ever since Amber was little she was fascinated by the moon. Even now that she was eight going on nine she often lay in bed at night when it was full moon watching it gliding through the clouds like a ghostly saucer. It was even scary, and she often wondered if perhaps there were creatures living up there that might come sliding down moonbeams to the earth at night and wander around looking for children to eat.

Then one night she was dozing off after watching the moon, which always made her sleepy, when there was a tap on the window pane next to her bed. She sat up with her heart thumping. Her sister Tao was asleep in bed on the other side of the room but Amber decided not to wake her. It was probably just a twig blown by the wind that caused the tapping, she told herself, and there was no need for alarm. So she settled down and was beginning to fall asleep when the tapping started again this time louder.

Amber jumped up and went to the window holding a hockey stick, which she always kept next to her bed to chase away ghosts. She peered through the window pane. Outside was a silvery light, the leaves on the trees shining and the grass on the lawn glistening. It was scary, with everything quiet, and nothing moving. Her face was pressed against the glass so she could see better. But there was nothing that could have caused the tapping. So she climbed back into bed, feeling angry at being disturbed when she had to get up early next morning for school.

She was just comfortable when there it was again, tap, tap, tap. As she got near the window she saw something really weird looking at her through the glass pane.

CHAPTER TWO

Amber was so surprised she didn’t feel scared. It was the strangest creature you could imagine even in a dream. It had a round face like a sunflower but instead of yellow petals round its face it had dozens of little ears that it flapped to and fro in a comical way. It was quite big with a golden skin, a small mouth, beady black eyes which blinked and winked, but no nose at all. Its face was joined to a green stalk with a long slender arm sticking out from its stalk and three hands growing out along its arm. It had three fingers on each hand and the fingers squirmed rather like an octopus, with little suckers on them. It had no legs, only the long stalk with lots of short roots growing out the end with little feet on them.

Amber didn’t know what to do next. It seemed to be quite harmless and she thought it would be cruel to open the window and hit the poor thing on the head with her hockey stick. It would probably break into little pieces.

Then the creature spoke in a reedy voice that Amber could only just hear through the closed window. Hello. it said, "don’t be scared. I won’t eat you. For a start

Reviews for Amber’s Moonlight Adventure

[antony · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Very well written with nice illustrations. Read it aloud to my daughter and she liked it. A good story about chasing a monster. Lots of strange characters. The heroin flies on the back of a sort of cross between a cow and a horse. Good for kids about eight or nine.