The Extraordinary Tale of an Ordinary Boy

By Stuart Paton

Freddy Bloomenberg is a very ordinary boy but when he discovers a hidden entrance to a mysterious land at the bottom of his own garden then the most extraordinary tale begins.

Follow Freddy as he meets new friends, fights new enemies and most importantly as he discovers a land more extraordinary than his wildest dreams.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Nov 15, 2011
• ISBN: 9781467009881

Stuart Paton

Stuart Paton was born in the Souh West of London in 1990. The Extraordinary Tale of an Ordinary Boy is his first childrens fantasy story. A follow up story is currently in the pipeline. When he is not writing Stuart is a keen bass player and also plays guitar and a bit of keyboard and is learning the drums. He plays and writes his own songs. His first music video is available to watch on youtube and various other live videos are available of him performing in the Dan Gale Experience band.

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Chapter 1

The Forbidden Entrance

Freddy was a very ordinary boy. He had a very ordinary family, an ordinary house, he went to a very ordinary school where he had very ordinary teachers and ordinary friends. The one thing that you could count as an odd thing about him was his very odd surname. It was Bloomenberg. In fact his full name was rather odd as well. It was Freddy Albert Bloomenberg.

Freddy looked like any other boy of his age except for the fact that he was very short. He had brown hair which he was very unhappy about. When he was younger he had had beautiful long blonde hair which he loved. But it seemed the older he was getting the darker his hair was getting. He had very thin legs with very knobbly knees, very skinny arms with pointy little elbows and what looked like rather large hands in comparison with his wrists. He had hazel eyes and a short button nose. His aunts said this was very cute which he found very embarrassing. He wore very normal clothes as well. Shorts were his favourite and if his mother let him he would probably wear them all year round.

The house Freddy and his family lived in was fairly large and had a long thin garden. Around the garden there was a high brown wooden fence. If you walked right to the end of the garden you could see that there was a large round patch of the wood on the fence which was a different shade of brown. It looked older than the rest of the fence did. There were two bits of wood across that patch of the fence which made an X shape. Freddy found this very suspicious but never had the courage to find out if there was a reason for his suspicion.

One day after a particularly good day at school (Freddy had won a chocolate bar and a book token for first place in a spelling competition,) Freddy decided he would test the patch of wood at the end of the garden to see if it was blocked off with planks of wood for a good reason and to see if there was anything interesting behind it. He waited until after the whole house hold had gone to bed which was a very tiresome task as his father didn’t go to bed till very late. Well at least it seemed very late to Freddy. As soon as he heard his father snoring away he crept slowly down the stairs to the kitchen where he grabbed a light snack to keep him going on his exploration trip. Then he tip toed to where his dad kept his tools in his tool shed and quietly grabbed the tools he thought would be necessary for breaking the wooden strips off the fence. He took a crow bar, a hammer and for some reason a screw driver. He took the hammer and screw driver for putting the wood back after as he didn’t want his parents to find out he had been sneaking around during the night. He closed the shed door as silently as he could. But what he feared suddenly happened. A large tool box fell from a shelf in the tool shed to the ground making a horrifically loud crashing noise. He groaned thinking this was the moment he was going to get caught. He quickly hid behind the tool shed as he saw a light flick on in his parent’s bedroom. A bright beam of light shone across the whole garden. This was Freddy’s father’s torch pointing out of the window scanning over the garden to see what had made that loud noise. Luckily for Freddy a fox stood there by a toppled over bin looking dazed by the torch light. Freddy was saved! ‘SHOOO!’ shouted Freddy’s father out of the bedroom window. When he saw the fox was safely off his property he turned off the torch. The bedroom light shortly followed this. Freddy sighed with relief.

Freddy tip toed as light footed as he could down to the end of the garden now being as silent as he possibly could be. He was very cautious to not stand on any crunchy leaves or twigs. When he reached the end of the garden he immediately started work on the planks of wood nailed to the fence. He shoved the crow bar into place and he tugged with all his might. He looked in despair as the planks hadn’t even budged at all. Not even a millimetre.

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