Kitkat's Incredible Journey to Mother Gooseland

By Raymond Reyes and Robert L. Leister

KitKat loves Mother Goose nursery rhymes. She wishes on a star every night that Humpty Dumpty can be put back together again.
Starlight-Starbright, your wishes-and-dreams-can-come-true fairy shares KitKats wish with Mother Goose and Goosey Gander.
Am I dreaming? said KitKat as she saw Mother Goose and Goosey Gander sprawling on her bedroom floor.
KitKat accepts their invitation to Mother Gooseland.
When you open the cover of the Tale of KitKat and her incredible journey to Mother Gooseland you become part of her journey.
Can KitKat and the Mother Goose Gang put Humpty Dumpty back together again?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 13, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493152520

Raymond Reyes

K.A.Hobson's grandmother encouraged her curiosity as a child. The pond in this book was patterened after the one she spent many weekends with her grandmother. She spent most of her childhood outdoors. I would bring my pen and pad to the pond and write at a picnic table enjoying the scenes and sounds surrounding me. That was my inspiration for most of my writings. Fascinated in the images and colors of the beloved California Seasons. The outdoors provided me with great freedom to create writings that one day I would hope could hold the attention and imagination of young readers. I still live in Northern California with my ever inspiring Daughter. Lizzy, and A Gift from a Genie are my first picture stories.

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Copyright © 2014 by Robert Leister. 135953-LEIS

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013922407

ISBN: Softcover 978-1-4931-5250-6

Hardcover 978-1-4931-5251-3

EBook 978-1-4931-5252-0

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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: 01/09/2014

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to my daughter Kathryn Marie Leister (KitKat). She provided me with the inspiration to write this book.

Robert L. Leister

CONTENTS

KitKat’s Secret Wish

KitKat’s Visitors

The Journey to Mother Gooseland Begins

The Beginning of a Special Day

KitKat’s Abrupt Arrival in Mother Gooseland

The Sheepherders

Gander Mountain

The Valley of Milk and Honey

Rainbow Gardens (Flowers for Humpty)

Dough Meadow

Shenanigans along the Cobblestone Road

Legends of the Evergreen Forest

The Circus

Sweet-Tooth Paradise

Mother Gooseland Choo Choo

Humpty’s Magical Return

A Jubilant Ole King Cole

The Parade

The Banquet

The Ball

KitKat’s Farewell

Journey’s End

Confusion and Disbelief

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KITKAT’S SECRET WISH

Night has fallen on the quaint little village of Gooseberry Falls. It is bedtime at the Goslin home at One Hundred Goose Creek Lane. Mr. and Mrs. Goslin are in KitKat’s bedroom, and the nightly reading of Mother Goose nursery rhymes have begun.

Her favorite is Humpty Dumpty, but she is saddened because Humpty is in so many pieces. Isn’t there anything that can be done for poor Humpty? asked a sobbing KitKat.

Mrs. Goslin wiped away KitKat’s tears and tried to comfort her. You really love those nursery rhyme characters, said Mr. Goslin to his six-year-old daughter.

Yes, Daddy, I have a secret wish, I wish for every night.

What is it? asked Mr. Goslin while twirling the end of his black mustache.

Can’t tell responded KitKat. If I tell, my wish will not come true. Besides, it’s a secret, Daddy. Clutching her ever-present Humpty Dumpty puppet, she opened her bedroom window and gazed at a bright and sparkling shooting star streaking across the night sky and recited:

Starlight, Starbright

First star I see tonight,

I wish I may, I wish I might,

Have the wish, I wish tonight.

Please, let my dream come true. When you wish upon a star, your dreams do come true, don’t they, Mommy? Mrs. Goslin always took off her glasses when she wanted to make something clear. Yes, if you really believe hard enough and work hard enough, sometimes dreams can come true, Mrs. Goslin assured her young daughter.

All right, said Mr. Goslin, off we go to bed now. Say your prayers and good night, my little dreamer. You know we love you very much, KitKat.

God bless Mommy and Daddy, and please help poor Humpty Dumpty, KitKat began. He has so many friends that want to play with him after so many years of being a scrambled egg. Amen! Good night, Mommy and Daddy, I love you! Soon the black-haired, pigtailed little girl was fast asleep in dreamland.

What an imagination she has, Mr. Goslin said to his sympathetic wife. Sometimes I think she gets too wrapped up with these nursery rhymes.

Now, honey, said Mrs. Goslin, try to remember when you were her age.

Well, I guess you are right, dear, Mr. Goslin said as he turned off their bedroom light.

Poor Humpty, said Mrs. Goslin in the dark.

Go to sleep, dear, responded her husband. You know I do wonder what KitKat’s secret wish could be, he added.

KITKAT’S VISITORS

Finally, everyone was asleep and everything was quiet in the Goslin home. In fact, the entire village was quiet. A glowing golden light floated down unnoticed from the night sky, and entered KitKat’s bedroom window. Out of the glowing light stepped a beautiful lady with long curly blond hair dressed in a glittering golden gown. As KitKat slept, the lady raised her magic wand over KitKat, and the same glowing golden light surrounded KitKat as well. She whispered, Kathryn Marie, I am Starlight-Starbright, your wishes-and-dreams-can-come-true fairy. You will have wisdom beyond your years. Wisdom will radiate from you, and everyone will put their trust in you. I will see you later, you will have more visitors tonight, and I promise that you won’t be disappointed. She waved her magic wand over KitKat again, and a beautiful glittering golden dress appeared at the foot of KitKat’s bed, and out the window she flew.

Circling high above the Goslin