Gingledorf Book Four: “A Cup of Hot Chocolate With........”

By Marta Visola and Avery Visola

Once upon a time, in a far away land, there lived the tiniest fairy moth of them all. Her name was Gingledorf. Gingledorf finds herself in pickles and jams because her magic gets a bit whoopsie, and too much fairy dust sprinkling has unfortunate effects. With the help of some good friends and lot of cups of hot chocolate, she figures out how to make things just fairy-perfect.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 6, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524658748

Marta Visola

Marta is a nana who learned that the very best way to teach life lessons is through a story. Her grandchildren wanted the same story over and over, so she started to write them down. It was a family joke that when the children got a bit loud and rolling around like a pile of puppies, she could whisper “Once upon a time in a far away land” and they would be instantly quiet and sitting at her feet ready for another story.

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Published by AuthorHouse: 01/06/2017

ISBN: 978-1-5246-5873-1 (sc)

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Contents

Introduction to the characters

Bee-holed

Bee-draggled, Bee-quest

Beeline

Gingledorf and the Sticky Situation

Making Lemons into…?

Listless

Nana Valkyrie

Record Breaking Recording

Snow… WHAT!!?

Snowy Patches Rough Patch

The Gigantic Juicy Peach

The Kitten Rescue

Wishing Will Make It Sew

Broken Angel

Elvis Parsley or – good things come in small packages

Gingledorf the Red Nosed Fairy Moth

The Night Before Christmas

O’ Christmas Tree, O’ Christmas Tree

The Gift of the Magi-c

Introduction to the characters

Gingledorf – the tiniest fairy moth of them all

Tiny Wee One – the smallest snail of them all who now has a green play-dough shell after a Gingledorf Whoopsie

Chester Drawers – an abandoned dresser in the woods where they all live

Beatrice Bee – a tiny bee who carries pollen in her baskets tied to her legs

Malicesandra – a naughty fairy who is really really trying hard to do better

Rocky – a turtle with a very handsome scarred face

Okie Dokie – a deaf mute kitten

Mousie – a blind mouse

Spec – the mother robin who keeps losing her glasses

Lego – the daddy long legs spider with rubber band legs

Blossom – the flower fairy of the spring

The Children

Princess

Butter Pickle

Chango

Liner

Bee-holed

Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there lived the tiniest fairy moth of them all. Her name was Gingledorf.

One morning, Gingledorf was off doing her favorite morning thing, smelling the flowers. The roses were particularly fragrant and sweet smelling, so Gingledorf was taking special care to smell each and every one. It was a long and tiring job of sniffing, but she did not want any flower to have hurt feelings and think that she had ignored it.

It was all of the sniffing and special attention that caused Gingledorf to notice, with surprise, that the rose leaves were full of round holes.

As she thoughtfully scratched her head, wondering if Tiny Wee One had made the holes, she noticed something that made her stop in mid scratch.

On the nearest leaf and completely ignoring her, was a little bee. This bee was doing the strangest thing.

With her mouth, the bee was cutting a big circle in the rose leaf. When she was done, she twirled the leaf around, grabbed it over her head and then under her body and started to fly away with it.

Curious, Gingledorf followed.

The bee flew to the side of the garage and started stuffing the leaf between the boards where there was a gap.

What in the world? Thought Gingledorf.

Gingledorf had never seen such a thing. Beatrice had never done that, and no other bee that she had ever met carried leaf pieces around or cut them with their mouths.

Back and forth the bee went, cutting, carrying and stuffing. Gingledorf sat on a rock and watched. After some time, Beatrice and Tiny Wee One joined her, and they watched together.

The little bee was getting tired. The flights to the garage were getting a bit wobbly, and Gingledorf decided that it was time to find out exactly what was going on.

The friends politely said, AHEM.

The little bee, who had not even noticed them, bumped into the side of the garage and dropped her piece of leaf.

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Bee-holed

The friends rushed over to pick up the leaf.

The little bee explained that she was a leaf-cutter bee from the family Megachili. Her name was Karem.

She said that she was cutting leaves and making nests