Mike & Alex, the Defenders of the Animal Forest

By Peter van Wermeskerken

Childrens book for 4-10 years old. 60 pages, 6 illustrations. Also (grand)parents will laugh about!
It's about Mike, the biggest of the rabbit-kids, and Alex, the smallest of the swine-kids. They are close friends.They play together and discover the forest. But on a good day they collected selfconfidence to have a look outside. They hide, in the corn field. Later, with even more courage, they visit sow Sophie and her piglets. Sophie wants to remain a Lady and have more babies. Therefore she offers the friends her leftovers. That high quality farmfood lets Mike and Alex grow big and strong. That brings them and Mr. Owl to the idea to defend the animals against the humans when they harm thThe animals of the forest don't like noise, so they ruin a house warmingsparty of Baron and Baroness Brilliance d'Appearance till NothingintheMain. Also they make clear not to want a road that splits the forest. Finally big plans are developed to chase the hunters away in the autumn. And they succeed! The hunters return soon to the farm, dirty frrom head till feet. They feel it as a dehumilation when theur wives just laugh.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Peter van Wermeskerken
• Release date: Jun 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311822109

Peter van Wermeskerken

I'm born on Sunday 12.31.1939 as the oldest of a twin. I was only some 1850 gramms at birth, but I made up. I drank from our mother my portion plus what mny brother left. Unfortunaately Paul fell very unlucky to death 2022 at 82 years.I finished up WWII with epilepsis because of malnutrition. Because of the medication in the 1950s I can't show an examplary education. When I was some 17, 18 I grew for a great deal over plus the effect of more modern medication. I'll always remain an epileptician. Only now it's so under control and I can drive safely.I'm an educated farmer, finished study 1960. That year I was co-winner in an European essay-contest on the Agricultural Cooperatives in the European Common Market. My Dad was editor in chief of a local paper at Zeist, a town of 55.000 inhabitants. At 14 I wrote my first articles for his newspaper and in 1965 I joined him. That lassted till 1970 when I became financial writer at Algemeen Dagblad daily at Rotterdam. I studied economics at the level of teacher at a highschool. This knowledge base has been polished and deepened during private lectures with the governors of the Dutch and German central banks. That helped me a lot to be accepted in the world of central bankers, with interviews and scoops. I also got such a knowledge base in the field of oil - while I was an ordinary journalist - trained at Shell, BP and Exxon. As a result, I built up a network of oil traders around the world. This enabled me to provide OPEC ministers with current oil prices at any time. As a thank you I received countless scoops for my newspaper.Being an experienced and good reporter one is endangered with a chef position. That happened also to me. It's pleasant for the extra money, but all the meetings and corrections and cuttings in work my collegues had produced to the maximum of their abilities, that's sometimes hard.At 60 years I got a serious heart attack. I experienced that as very uinteresting, in particular because the way doctors sended me after a week home and at work. A year later I retired and became trainer of the youth team in my chessclub. That's nice! They managed in three years to get to the same level as our first adult team and two of them I was allowed to accompany to the national championships.1968 I married my wife and we got two children and 5 grandchildren. My wife died 2014 and 2018 I remarried a Vietnamese woman. She has also two children. We live in The Hague, the Dutch seat of the Government and the Royal family.My books and storiees:1989: De Jaren 90, interviews with the CEO's of the 10 largest Dutch companies (on order for a publisher);2012 Dubbel Spion, my experiences as a double agent during 3,.5 years of the Cold War;2013 Double Spy (English) and Spione Spione (German) translations2023 Double Agent in the Cold War (reviewed issue)2015 Happiness follows after Friday 13th (short story, plays in England)2015 Puck en Evert, beschermers van het Grote Dierenbos (children's book 4-9 years2015 Mike & Alex (English translation of Puck and Evert)2016 Gevangen in Toren Burchtruïne Lage (Dutch griezelverhaal voor jongeren, short story)2016 Gefangen im Turm Burgruine Lage (German)2022 De Jaargang, met bijzonder recept (short story)2022 Classmates (translatden of De Jaargang), with special recipe (short story)2023 A Kid during WOII (4 short stories from me as 4 year old sabotaging German militaruy cars)2023 Een kind tijdens WO II (Dutch)2023 KOFFIEVREUGD (how policy to the elderly should be - humoristic)"Under construction" by the author:Guardian Angel; Reed Sailing (erotic); Stories by a Journalist; Children.... (all books)

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Mike & Alex

The Defenders of

the Animal Forest

Peter van Wermeskerken

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Copyright © 2015 Peter van Wermeskerken

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Cover Illustration & Interior Illustrations: Reema Sehgal

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Cover & Interior Layout: Laura Shinn Designs

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1:

Mike the Rabbit and Alex the Swine

CHAPTER 2:

Mike and Alex Grow Fast

CHAPTER 3:

A Stranger on the Farm Next Door

CHAPTER 4:

Protest Against Construction Car-Path

CHAPTER 5:

The Animals Hunt the Hunters

CHAPTER 6:

Air Force Falcraft and Pigeonbomb

CHAPTER 7

The Author, Peter van Wermeskerken

CHAPTER 8

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CHAPTER 1:

Mike the Rabbit and Alex the Swine

His mother called him Michael, along with some more siblings, when he was born. Mike was the most active of all the young bunnies. He played with his brothers and sisters in the forest, skipping, running, and digging, which they learned from their mom and dad. ‘Catch-me-as-you-can’ was also a good game, especially if you were chased. The trick was to let the follower come so close he almost had you and then suddenly jump a corner to a tree. Usually, the follower went right through, and if he dared to jump, he had to be careful not to bump into the hard tree.

Yes, Mike called when his mother yelled for him. He and his siblings had an excellent life in the forest. There were also other animals to play with. As for foxes, cats, and ferrets, they had to be careful. Mike’s best friend was Alexander, the small swine.

Alexander also had many brothers and sisters, but Alex was the smallest of all. He wasn’t as strong as the others and always got pushed away from the food. When they played, he almost always lost. His brother and sisters were more robust and faster. Besides Mike, Alex was more excellent.

The little swine and the giant rabbit liked to play together in the farmer’s cornfield. But once, that nasty farmer sent his vicious dog Mason into the cornfield. Get out, you! the dog threatened as he repeatedly barked, running towards them. The dog paused and gasped. That darned rabbit jumped beside him, and so he lost sight of the swine. Now, he had to go snooping for a track, which would take much longer. "My boss doesn’t want you digging holes in his cornfield. I’ll