Silly Animal Stories for Kids

By Denis Hayes

Can such things really happen to animals? Of course they can and of course they do in this book.

Spike is an enterprising spider. When he is washed away in the bath he forms a water park ride for his friends. He is blown out from a fan and forms the flying spiders but does not succeed in making pop stars of his wife and daughters, a disaster. After many adventures and mishaps he finally retires.

Sebastion Seagull doesnt want to leave the nest when he grows up - he thinks flying is too dangerous and not natural. He suffers humiliation until one day he becomes an unlikely hero.

Squidgy is a forgetful squirrel having all sorts of problems until one day he escapes and finds his way.

Ellie is a gorgeous baby elephant but very spoilt and very vain. She refuses to use her trunk to eat as she thinks it disgusting. Her mother despairs but her father, the big bull elephant solves the problem.

Ozzie Ostrich has an identity crisis. He is a bird but he cant sing, hop or fly. He tries and trains hard then one day he becomes famous.

Winnie Worm is worried. She is born with eyes but no other worms understand because they cant see what she is going on about. Mr. Wiseworm solves her problem.

Beryl is a not so busy bee. She is a nuisance until one day she finds something she is good at.

Freddie is an antisocial fly until one day he is exposed as silly and vain and decides to change.

Tina Turtle is a beautiful real life story of a young boy who rescues a gorgeous tiny terrapin from a plastic pot on sale at a school fete and the bond they come to share.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Aug 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9781482892505

Denis Hayes

The English author has worked on many projects in many countries of the world, living an adventurous and sometimes dangerous life. He has entertained and has been entertained by royalty, premiers, ministers, and VIPs. After writing books for children, he wishes to introduce adults to their same old world but viewed from a different perspective. He has been married four times and has eight children yet vigorously defends the sanctity of marriage and deplores the increase in the world’s population. He uses his books to turn the world upside down and inside out because he believes that is the only way to make sense of everything. He lives with his lovely Asian wife and three boys in Malaysia. He personally draws and colours all the characters by hand.

Book preview

Spike the Spider’s First Adventure

Spike the Spider was bored even though he lived in a good position in a large bathroom. There he was in a top corner with a wonderful view, yet he was discontented, complaining that not many friends came to visit him.

Spiders only have spider friends anyway, not insect friends. Insects that do visit usually end up eaten so they tend to stay away if they can.

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He made sure he stayed high enough to avoid the human sweeping that happened occasionally. This knocked down dust, cobwebs and the webs of spiders that had been too lazy to climb higher. So he felt secure.

He was also well fed because there were times when steam rose up clouding the air which meant that juicy flies couldn’t see so well and flew pell mell into Spike’s web.

Spike trapped enough so that he didn’t have to go down to the Spidermarket very often.

He lived well. So what was the problem?

Well Spike wanted adventure. He wanted to travel. He wanted excitement. So one day he abseiled down onto the big white bath below. He cut himself loose and crawled around exploring this new place. Unfortunately it seemed more boring than where he lived. Sure enough it was all bright and shiny white with a few bottles spread around but this was hardly living dangerously. So Spike went over the top of a slope and rested on the side of a steep hill. All he could see was more of the same thing.

Feeling a bit tired after all this exercise he decided to look around later so he luxuriously stretched out his legs, gave a yawn showing a mouth big enough to terrify even soldier ants and went to sleep.

Spike slowly woke up feeling that somehow things had changed. Water was running, steam was rising and the air was getting hotter.

All of a sudden Spike heard a scream from somewhere and a human voice shouted, Aaah! There's a huge spider in the bath.

Spike had learned from an old uncle to stay away from humans as they generally had a bad attitude towards spiders. He scuttled sideways but ran into a stream of water rushing out of a tap. He was scooped up and rushed pell mell down into the bath.

Spike picked up speed, was twisted this way and that, then spun round and round before being flushed down the plug hole. Spike dropped like a stone, seemingly for ages, then roared along on the top of a wave. At last on joining a bigger tunnel with a slower water flow Spike managed to clamber out onto a ledge.

Weee Heee - yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!! shouted a breathless Spike, man oh man, that was living!

Spike completely forgot that he was a spider and jumped up and down like a jack in the box in his excitement.

I have got to have more of that, he said, and made his way back along the tunnel wall, reached his turn off point which had no more water coming out and climbed back up to the start. When he reached the spot where he thought he would emerge back into the bath he found it blocked off which puzzled him for a while. He scratched behind one of his eyes with one of his legs wondering what he should do next.

He did not have to wait long.

Suddenly with a loud pop, the plug was removed, water gushed down on Spike and off he went again on his wild ride. This time Spike shouted, laughed, turned head over heels and got up to all sorts of tricks. Back he went again but unfortunately there were no more water thrills. Disappointed Spike climbed back up to his web, re-lived his experiences while eating a few juicy ants and fell sound asleep.

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