The Adventures of Scrappy the Echidna and His Friends

By Wendy Joy Dando

I hope children and adults alike enjoy this book first of a set about Scrappy the Echidna and his friends and all the adventures they will have in the Australian out-back. The excitement of leaving home, the danger of bush fires in the out-back the laughter and tears at what his friends and his face after he helps others in the tragedy of fires and the joy of new and old friends in the survival and everyday life in Australia and the courage of a little insect eating or supposed to, only Scrappy the Echidna will only eat wild strawberries and other sweet nuts and berries that are in season, much to the horror at first to his parents and also the other wildlife.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Aug 6, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483680026

Wendy Joy Dando

Wendy Dando was born in Geelong Victoria and grew up in the seaside town Torquay. She has always loved cooking and reading and writing are a great passion of here’s she likes nothing better than to escape into a story. She also loves to cook and entertain and try new or old recipes or make up her own. She married young and has five children, she married her second husband and is now retired and living in Tasmania where her and her husband love to go four wheel driving, there is nothing more fun than going with friends and getting stuck in the mud and being recovered. When we go on long trips we always go camping she likes nothing better than when camping to sit by the fire and have a few laughs with her friends. She also loves old 1950’s music and dancing she also has an extensive CD collection of 50’s music her husband and her have a little Maltese dog called Sooky who thinks she is a human.

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Copyright © 2013 by Wendy Joy Dando. 503800-HORV

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 07/31/2013

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This book is dedicated to three very special girls.

Krystal Kelly Spark

Jayde Angel Spark

Serenity Joy Spark

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As the Australian bush was coming into sunset, the nocturnal animals came out from, logs, burrows, tree hollows to feed.

There was a special family waiting a great miracle, Momma and Poppa Echidna, were waiting for their two children to hatch from their soft-shelled eggs, that were in a hollow covered with leaves to keep them warm.

The birth was very special and the whole of the bush animals were also getting impatient, for it was very rare for Echidna to have two babies, they usually only have one Echidna.

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Four days later the great event happened, first a boy, that Poppa was really hoping for, and a few minutes later