The Amazing Adam and Big Bad Bruno

By Gill Griffin

Ten-year-old Adam lives in a small village in England, and his greatest passion is performing magic tricks – but the one thing he’s missing is a real, live rabbit to pull out of his top hat.
One day, Adam is practising with his toy rabbit Scrags, when he reaches into his hat and pulls out a very real, very alive, rabbit named Bruno! But Bruno is no ordinary rabbit – he is a rare, talking, GIANT rabbit. And apart from being enormous, he’s also rude, noisy, laughs at his own jokes – and always hungry.
Follow our budding magician as he takes his unruly new friend to the Annual Walstowe Magic Show and crosses paths with The Great Caro, one of England’s top magicians, who happens to have his own talking rabbit – Bruno’s Uncle Ollie! Bruno and Uncle Ollie steal the show and Adam gets the credit for having ‘amazing’ ventriloquist skills.
Can Adam and Bruno rescue Uncle Ollie from The Great Caro and get them to safety before this sleepy English village realises that there’s something a little strange about Adam’s new magic trick?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tellwell Talent
• Release date: Feb 4, 2016
• ISBN: 9781925447255

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The Amazing Adam and Big Bad Bruno

by

Gill Griffin

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Copyright 2016 © Gill Griffin

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This story is entirely a work of fiction.

No character in this story is taken from real life. Any resemblance to any person or persons living or dead is accidental and unintentional.

The author, their agents and publishers cannot be held responsible for any claim otherwise and take no responsibility for any such coincidence.

I would like to thank Anthony, Viggo, Jack, Katia and all the other young readers whose interest and comments encouraged me to continue and publish this book.

CHAPTER ONE:

The Amazing Adam

The last house in the village was old and creaky, and painted a very bright pink. Adam had lived there all of his nine and a half years. At the end of the long back yard was a cornfield that belonged to their neighbour, a farmer who they rarely saw as he was always busy working on his large property. He never bothered Adam’s mum and dad who rented the pink house from him because without fail, they always paid their rent on the first of each month.

Over the years, Adam and his mother had worn a path from one side of the cornfield to the other, a convenient shortcut for their daily walk to the village shops and school. Adam would open the little wooden gate at the end of the garden and they would disappear, swallowed up into a vast, golden sea of corn as they followed the path in single file, with Adam leading the way.

The farmer never seemed to mind, and even kept the narrow path clear for them. The corn either side of the path would sway gently, tickling them on their shoulders. They couldn’t see over the top of the golden ears, and the world became silent except for the breeze rustling the leaves and mysterious little scraping and scratching noises, presumably from field mice. Once the corn was harvested, the magic disappeared and for a long time, there would be just an endless view of short stalks poking from the ground like stiff, brown straws that scratched at their legs. Adam always longed for the new crop to be planted and willed it to grow quickly to once more become the mysterious golden forest he loved.

While at school, Adam’s mum spent her days gardening. Their