Guardian of the Gryphons

By Rebekah Lipp

When tragedy strikes, Eva is forced to make a tough decision and fast! The choice she makes changes everything, throwing Eva and her brother into a strange world called Lyra. Among the incredible things they encounter there is a walking tree, dandelion fairies, pine-cone people and huge lion-birds.
In this new world, Eva’s courage is repeatedly put to the test. When a frightening figure from her past arrives, she faces losing everything. Will she be able to find a way to save not only herself, but also her brother, their friends and the new life they have created for themselves?
Guardian of the Gryphons is the first book in the League of Wildlings series. In these books, children from around the world join together to unlock their special gifts in order to protect their own homes and the mystical world of Lyra.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wildling Books
• Release date: Aug 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9780473587833

Rebekah Lipp

Bex Lipp was co-founder of award-winning business Awesome Inc, which started around creating gratitude journals, and was a great base to launch into publishing children’s books. Bex also co-wrote the book ‘Finding Gratitude’ through Quarto Publishing in the US. Bex’s own personal story of struggles with mental health issues led her to come up with the idea of making a picture book around the emotions associated with anxiety.With a passion to bring awareness to the mental health of children from her own personal story, Bex has now been asked to speak at events around the topic of the creation of Aroha’s Way, anxiety and mental health. After going through two years of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, after ending up in crisis in her early twenties, Bex felt there was a real gap in what the professionals knew and what parents and teachers needed to know. Bex strongly feels that we can empower our children with skills to help prevent them from ending up in crisis like she did. Using the skills she has learnt throughout her journey with anxiety, depression, self-harm, body dismorphia and Borderline Personality Disorder she is creating books with messages to help children connect with their emotions and learn ways to regulate them.With a gentle parenting approach, Bex feels that all children have genius within them and if we act out of a place of compassion, kindness and love, we will see our children thrive.

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Guardian of the Gryphons

Guardian of the Gryphons

Rebekah Lipp

Wildling Books

This book is dedicated to my own crew of wildlings, Chris, Craig and Latifah, for always believing in me, all the laughs and making our dreams come true together.

Published by Wildling Books in 2020. Text © Rebekah Lipp. Illustrations © Craig Phillips. Edited by Nicola McCloy. Art direction and book design by Latifah Cornelius

All rights reserved. Except for the purpose of fair review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, this book or any portion hereof may not be reproduced, transmitted or used in any manner whatsoever, without the express written permission of the publisher. No reproduction may be made, whether by photocopying or by any other means, unless a licence has been obtained from the publisher or its agent.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of New Zealand.

ISBN 978-0-473-58783-3 (ePub)

ISBN 978-0-473-53913-9 (paperback)

ISBN 978-0-473-54849-0 (PDF)

ISBN 978-0-473-54937-4 (POD)

www.wildlingbooks.com

Pinecone

To the children of the world

– please know that you are special, you are gifted and there is no one else just like you. You know this to be true. As you read these words you might feel a little flutter in your belly. Learn to listen to your inner knowing, that feeling inside. Look out for things that make you so happy and follow that joy to find your true gifts then share them with the world. I believe in you. I believe in your dreams. Don’t let the world tame your wild spirit!

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Kitchen Window

Chapter One

Chapter 1

Evangeline hated her family so much that she often thought about running away. After all, anything had to be better than living with them, right? There were only two things that kept her from leaving – her youngest brother Tamond, whom she adored, and all the animals she cared for on the farm. She knew that without her there, Tamond and the animals would be left in the hands of her parents and three other brothers. She just couldn’t leave.

Looking out across the farm from the kitchen window, Eva sighed. A huge stack of filthy dishes were piled high for her to wash while her brothers played computer games and watched television.

Eva never had much spare time because her parents made sure she always had plenty of chores to do. If she wasn’t washing the seemingly never-ending pile of dishes, she was doing the laundry, cooking meals, making beds, feeding animals, or cleaning the bathroom. And then there was the toilet. Oh, the toilet… in a house full of boys. It was so gross!

Eva’s parents believed that it was a girl’s duty to clean and cook for the rest of the family, which is why she ended up doing all the chores whilst her brothers did nothing. She was sure they hadn’t wanted a daughter, but now she was here at least they were able to use her to keep the house in order as they all sat around being waited on.

Eva’s father was a noticeably short man. He was bald but pretended he wasn’t by growing the hair on the sides of his head long and scraping it across his big, shiny scalp. He had a lumpy red nose and his massive belly looked like it had been over-inflated using a bicycle pump. He was always a bit sweaty, like he had been running, even though he would never do that. He didn’t say much, apart from yelling demands at Eva. His favourite one seemed to be, ‘BRING ME SOME FOOD!’

When he wasn’t eating, doing the bare minimum around the farm, or sleeping, he was watching sport or horse racing on television. In short, he spent most of his days sitting on his exceptionally large bottom.

Eva’s mother was only slightly taller than her father, so still quite short. She was slim, with olive skin, black, wavy hair and green eyes.

Eva wondered if her mother had been beautiful once, before all the years of anger