Original Bedside Stories Book 1

By J. Christen Adams

From puppies to pixies and mice to giants, these original short stories will enchant the young at heart. Ideal to read to 3 to 6 year olds, Older children will enjoy reading themselves, or with parents and siblings. They are varied themes and average around eight to nine hundred words. Perfect length stories to read before bedtime.
Some have a realistic theme that will make children think, others are just fun. Some have a moral. All will help educate your child.

• Language: English
• Publisher: J. Christen Adams
• Release date: Jun 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9780648831532

J. Christen Adams

When people ask me what I’m so happy about, my immediate response is, ‘I woke up this morning’. It may sound a bit overdone but it just happens to be true. I think I’m the luckiest man I know.I’ve had (and am still having) a life full of rich and different experiences. Lucky not to die in the underwater caves of South Australia, prawn boat deck hand on Australia's Barrier Reef, an AFS volunteer working with exchange students from many different countries, flying hangliders 12,000 feet above the Australian outback, getting frightened fighting bushfires, teaching English in Thailand and South Korea and time as a Buddhist monk in rural Thailand are just a few off a list I almost can't believe myself.Through all this, I have developed a passion for bringing people of different cultures together. It is only through learning about each other that we come to understand that, though we may be different in many ways, we are all the same human beings underneath. We all laugh and cry, we all bleed the same colour blood when cut, we all need food and we all share this beautiful planet.Let us hope that through understanding, we can attain the tolerance required to help make this world a better place.My writing allows me to explore ideas, emotions, people, relationships and occasionally morality. Although I have been told I shouldn’t, I jump the boundaries between children’s books, adult fiction and poetry. I am much more comfortable with things that set us free rather than those that limit expression.I write for the simple pleasure of it, though also in the hope that some of my scribble might inspire someone, somewhere, to work, in some small way, towards making a better world for our children.

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Original Bedside Stories

Book 1

By J. Christen Adams

Copyright © 2020 by J. Christen Adams

eBook: ISBN: 978-0-6488315-3-2

Published by J. Christen Adams

Thank you for downloading my eBook. It's your book now, but please don't give it away. If you enjoyed it, just tell your friends where they can download their own copy.

I called this book Bedside Stories as they are multi purpose.

Unlike bedtime stories, you can read them at any time. And, just between you and me, you don't have to be in bed to read them either!

They are also useful when someone needs to think of something else

(like when someone is sick). Being read a short story can help.

So if you know someone who is sick, rather than just hold their hand - read them a story.

Of course, a story is still nice to have at bedtime!

Acknowledgments

Thanks two daughters who inspire me, and editor Hazel for the final polish.

Contents

Title

The Old Mouse

In the Beginning

The Island

The Two Puppies

The Catfish Pond

First Meeting

A Star is Born

How It All Began

Snowy

The Boy and the Giant

Links

Connect With Me

About the Author

The Old Mouse

Now you probably don't know this, but not too far from here lives a very, very old mouse. I can't tell you where because it's a secret, and the thing about secrets is they are only a secret if you never tell anyone.

Anyway, about the mouse. She was unusual because she was very very old. Not old like a human – eighty or one hundred. Mice don't live as long as people. Any mouse that gets to be five years old, would normally be a very old mouse.

Well, this old lady mouse was almost twenty years old. That's very very very old for any mouse.

She was also quite a strange mouse because, instead of being normal grey/brown mouse colour, this old lady mouse was orange. Not bright orange like an orange off a tree, but her fur was an orange-brown, all over her body. Well not completely over her body. Because she was now so old, the fur around her nose was starting to go white.

Now this is where her story gets interesting.

When she was a young mouse she was grey/brown, just like all the other mice. She was about a year old, and not