The Rebel Bedats and the Bad Cheese Moon

By Patsy Stanley

This is a Kingdom of True Believers in Imagination Tale. A Tall Tale heavily Cloaked in Allegory, this is both a Grownup and a Children's Story...

In the Kingdom of Noddin Muse, young Rebel Bedats start a Rebellion within the larger Kingdom of True Believers

• Language: English
• Publisher: Patsy Stanley
• Release date: Mar 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9781736802656

Patsy Stanley

Patsy Stanley is an artist, illustrator and author. She has authored both nonfiction and fiction books including novels, children's books, energy books, art books, and more. She can reached at:[e-mail] for questions and comments.

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The Rebel Bedats and the Bad

Cheese Moon

This is a Kingdom of True Believers in Imagination Tale. A Tall Tale Cloaked in Allegory, this is both a Grownup and a Children’s Story…

By Patsy Stanley

Copyright © 2021 to Patsy Stanley, author of this book. Use of any part of this book without permission from the author or her representatives or agents is prohibited by law. All Rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transferred, modified, or used in part in any way and in any form without the express written consent of the author, Patsy Stanley and her agents or representatives. This book is a work of fiction. Cover art by Patsy Stanley ©2021

ISBN 978-1-7356266-9-7

LCCN 2021904266

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter One

Allegory is a fictional narrative conveying meanings not openly expressed in the surface narrative. This Tall Tale, cloaked in fairy tale narrative, has meanings on two or more levels that the reader discerns through their interpretive, imaginative processing. Allegory exercises the imagination in a clever, usually delightful way using imagery, metaphor, and other tools. The children enjoy the surface story while the Grownups enjoy both the surface and the underlying story. Exercising the imagination makes one wiser and more intuitive.

And so here we go…

Once upon at time in the land of Noddin Muse…

Well, while the Dreadful Noises were busy cutting cheese and lurking about in Landoshar, one of the smaller magic Kingdoms located in the Kingdom of True Believers in Imagination, there was another Tall Tale taking place in a nearby kingdom named Noddin Muse.

This tale is an older Tall Tale about how Beginnings began in Noddin Muse, and since different kinds of tick-tock time reign in each of the many magic kingdoms lying within the Kingdom of True Believers in Imagination, this story about Beginnings is probably both timely and true, too. Just as truly true as blue is blue…

The Prologue

In the Kingdom of Noddin Muse, hail falling from the Moon is called Moon Hail, just so you know. Moon Hail rains down on the Earth at night when the moon is wandering around the sky, emitting different size drops of mostly organic, 97% fat free blended Neufchatel and Mascarpone cheeses while nosily watching all below, and having an opinion about everything.

Moon opinions cause Moon Hail. That’s all there is to it. Moon Hail always leaves a glistening trail leading straight to the Magic Mirror Ladder Company that sometimes waxes the Ears of the Moon whenever magic stories go unheeded, if, it isn’t too sleepy.

The Moon has many moody night habits, that on unexpected occasions, encrusts things below with both crisp brie rime and poetic oddities, leaving old and young things sitting in the dark while the Moon rushes away, leaving them all silvery and sheeny and crackly, a faultless innocent us or them, wondering where the Moon went so nimbly, and wondering about much more.

It is worse for those blinking and thinking about moon pies and cheese cakes, for they are subject to becoming frosted with Moon Dew, which causes them to wake up yearning for sweets too early in the morning for a very long time.

Well, it certainly sounds like the Noddin Muse Moon branch of Celestial Beamers have no Moon Elders to keep them in line.

Oh, but they do, though the Moons escape the Elders time after time. Moon Elders in the Kingdom of Noddin Muse are called Grelders, short for Grim Elders, because they are very, very old. They have been assigned the task of keeping every bit of Moon Theory together by the GDN- make what you might of the initials- Big Bosses, but Moon Elders, being loquacious and used to peering, don’t always place