Reginald P. Lizard: A Day At The Beach

By Anthony Garot

A Book Series of Fun, Friendship, and Adventure!

Welcome to a world where improbable things are possible, the wind plays an active role (you know how the wind can get), and you might just learn a thing or two.

This book series was written at a middle school level. These kid-safe adventure fantasies host unusual friends, odd circumstances, and a great deal of humor.

The lead character is none other than Reginald P. Lizard, an intelligent lizard of few words. His best friend is the regal, proper, elegant "Lady Horse" with a positive demeanor. Ellington Owl is a lovable, cuddly, yet uncoordinated owl, who flies just fine, but doesn't land so well. Finally, Bootsy Bat and Thelonious Melon (Yes, a melon!) are an inseparable pair who crack jokes and play games on each other.

These five charming friends get into light, non-threatening, and fun adventures, and they meet the most interesting creatures. You will be entertained by songs, jokes, games, puzzles, manners, and interesting facts, too! The world of Reginald P. Lizard (and his friends) is waiting for you. Yes, yes, yes, YES!

As one reviewer writes of the fourth book:

"This book defies categories and nearly eludes description—clever, witty, and tongue-in-cheek, but at the same time gentle, sincere, and reassuring. Like so many of the best stories, different layers will appeal to multiple ages; you will find yourself giggling and pondering in equal measure. Also, there is an awful lot of coffee, an enviable coat of infinite cookies, a bathysphere, and poetry. What's not to love?"

Join our five friends on their third adventure!

Interest Level: Grades 3 - 7 & Adults!
Reading Level: Grades 4 - 8
ATOS Book Level: 5.2

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anthony Garot
• Release date: Oct 5, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463020548

Anthony Garot

Anthony has always been fond of the written word. He is a self-proclaimed “reader,” who enjoys a variety of genres including philosophy, psychology, motivation, inspiration, trading, leadership, and religion.His first book was a kids book! The characters are fun and simple for kids, but also have full, rich personalities to appeal to the "kid" inside every adult.His first departure from kids books was “A ForEx Trading Plan,” which combines years of market study into a trading plan for foreign exchange trading.In his spare free time, Anthony speculates currencies, shoots photos, reads, does push-ups, and drinks coffee.Anthony currently lives in Phoenix, AZ.

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Reginald P. Lizard

A Day At The Beach

by Anthony J. Garot

Reginald P. Lizard

A Day At The Beach

Copyright © 2018-2019 by Anthony J. Garot

Cover Copyright © 2018-2019

Smashwords Edition

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ISBN 9780463020548

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

The Story

(1) A Broken Truck

(2) An Absent Horse

(3) The Beach!

(4) A Long Roll Off a Short Pier

(5) Luncheon

(6) The Ghost Of the Picnic Cloth . . .

(7) Flying Kites

(8) Lone Fly McQuade, Part 1

(9) Mr. and Mrs. Crab

(10) Lone Fly McQuade, Part 2

(11) Airborne Crab Leads To Coffee Party

(12) Clumsy Uncle Billy

(13) Turkish Coffee

(14) A Tired Trip Home

(15) The Morning After The Night Before

Cast (Dramatis personæ)

Rules Of Hospitality

Parting Remarks

About The Author

I dedicate this book to my sister.

She is my best friend in the world.

Acknowledgments

The author thanks Dave and Tasha Pankratz for suggestions and edits.

Preface

Welcome to the third official book in the world of Reginald P. Lizard! You can download the first book, Ellington Owl's Awesome Birthday, for free.

It has been 5.5 years since I released the second book, The Voyage of Captain Reginald P. Lizard And His Amazing Crew.

During that time, I wrote a short story that was never published. This short story described the origins of the characters, e.g. a young lizard meeting a shy filly. I wrote this short story as a gift for my sister’s birthday. Perhaps one day I will re-visit this short story to make a book out of it.

The characters have become part of my life, and even my sister’s. For example, she saw a lizard on a TV series and wrote to me, He’s just like R.P.L.! Funnily enough, we refer to Reginald P. Lizard by his initials.

For continuity, I re-read the second book to capture the mannerisms, phrases, and charm of each of the characters. During my re-read, I cringed at my awful art work. I decided to forego adding images to this book.

Overall, this book has richer story telling than the second, and especially the first. While the book is still geared toward kids, it’s a little edgier. It’s intended as much for playful adults. Personally, I feel this book is perfect for reading to your kids—so long as you do the voices.

Since I dislike long prefaces in books, I will keep this short.

Anthony Garot, [e-mail]

https://www.facebook.com/Reginald.P.Lizard/

The Story

A Broken Truck

LADY HORSE FIXED her gaze on a dilapidated truck. And that is why you should not eat shredded wheat cereal after 7:00 PM. The horse was talking to a lizard whose head was under the hood of the old truck. Lady Horse wore a pretty blue ribbon in her braided mane, and her dazzling hooves glinted in the sunlight. Reginald P. Lizard crawled out from under the hood, wiped his forehead with the back of his arm, and nodded once to the horse.

The truck had needed a complete overhaul, and Reginald P. Lizard was just the lizard to do it. Tinkering on a truck was a splendid way to spend a sunny spring morning, especially with such good company. Setting a 14mm socket wrench down, the lizard took a swig of coffee, turned to Lady Horse, and then claimed, Fixed.

Lady Horse nodded her head vigorously up and down, Yes, yes, yes, YES! Now we can go to the beach! With jet-black eyes, Reginald P. Lizard looked at his friend and said, Just so. They sipped their coffee while Lady Horse contemplated what she should wear on her head at the beach. A refined lady must consider such important questions.

On impulse, Reginald P. Lizard executed a set of push-ups—for he loved to keep fit. Lady Horse was accustomed to this particular behavior. Lady Horse wondered if it was ladylike for a horse to do push-ups. Then she realized that horses cannot do push-ups. So she said aloud, without realizing it, If a horse could do push-ups, it would be ladylike to do so. Yes. Reginald P. Lizard didn’t say anything to this.

The lizard dumped the last dregs of his cold coffee and poured a little more for himself from the thermos. At a nod from Lady Horse, he topped off her mug also. There was always time for another mug of coffee among friends. The