Jake's Crazy Christmas Adventure: Jake's Big Adventures, #2

By J. William Turner

Jake travels with his mother to visit relatives in Tromso, northern Norway. Knowing they were close to the North Pole, he was hoping he might see Santa Claus, which happens on his first night when one of Santa's elves, takes a jet-lagged Jake on a high-speed journey from his bedroom to Santa's Village for a memorable five-minute meeting with the big man, himself, before returning the boy to Tromso. When he tells his mother, she says it was just another dream, like the one at Easter, caused by jet-lag, but Jake knows this time it was real.

• Language: English
• Publisher: J. William Turner
• Release date: Aug 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781370563777

J. William Turner

J. William Turner (aka James Turner) was born in Reading, England, forty miles west of London, in the late 1950's, and migrated with his family to south-eastern Australia in the mid 1960's. The youngest of three children James spent the last seven years of his education at a boys' private school in the coastal city of Geelong. During his time here, he became a senior N.C.O. in the school's army cadet unit, having undergone basic, practical military training for promotion, on a regular army base for two weeks in 1971, as a fourteen-year-old, at the end of the nineth grade. After finishing the twelfth grade, he attended university to study science, but discontinued his course after two years. In the early 1980's James gained his private pilot licence, was a volunteer operational member of St John Ambulance for ten years, and travelled to many parts of inland Australia and overseas, including two visits to the U.S.A.. He also penned the initial draft of Storm Ridge, the first of the four installments of Dangerous Days, in 1979, loosely based on a similar school hike he did in 1970 as an eighth-grader. Later, in 1989, Paddle Hard was drafted, based on an actual murder in Geelong in the mid 1970's, and his own experience at canoeing. Another ten years later, he drafted Outback Heroes after several visits to several parts of the vast Australian outback. Enemies Within was written just four years afterwards to give closure to the unanswered questions in Outback Heroes, and is set back in London, near to his ancestral roots. James has always liked putting pen to paper, and has had two articles published in Australian aviation magazines (1996 and 2008). Over a six-month period from January to June, 2004, James wrote the first three stories of another, four-part, fictional autobiography, yet to be published, entitled Blades, about the traumatic and difficult teenage years of a 'top-gun' helicopter pilot named Julian. Set in the late 1990's, in Darwin, Melbourne, the central Australian outback, and southern California, Blades also reinroduces the three main child characters from Dangerous Days, now adults aged in their late-twenties, and their relationship with Julian. These three stories are entitled Street Kid, High Country, and California Dreaming. The final story, Aftermath, was completed in two-and-a-half months just midway through 2008, to bring Julian's life story almost to the present day.

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Jake's Crazy Christmas Adventure

Jake's Big Adventures, Volume 2

J. William Turner

Published by J. William Turner, 2022.

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

JAKE'S CRAZY CHRISTMAS ADVENTURE

First edition. August 20, 2022.

Copyright © 2022 J. William Turner.

ISBN: 978-1370563777

Written by J. William Turner.

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JAKE’S CRAZY CHRISTMAS ADVENTURE.

(The sequel to Jake’s Magical Easter Adventure).

By J. William Turner.

Copyright 2016.

Jake is a young Australian boy who lives in the small tropical town of Coconut., a place with lots of opportunities for fun and adventure.

Today is the first day of November, the last month of spring. Six months have passed since Jake’s weird Easter dream about hiking with his aboriginal friends in the mountains; a dream never forgotten, because of its strange people, the Easter Bunny, unusual fruit, silly-looking fish, and a giant, scary mud crab.

With Christmas now only eight weeks away, he is starting to feel excited at all of the surprises to come as he rubs the sleep from his eyes. But he doesn’t expect the surprise his mother is about to give him when he walks into the kitchen for breakfast.

MONDAY MORNING, EARLY NOVEMBER.

Hi there, my darling boy, she said, kissing him on the forehead, sleep well?

Jake smiled, Yes, Mum, what’s for breakfast? I’m hungry?

You’re always hungry, she smiled in return. "It’s just your usual cereal, but be quick. It’s a student-free day at your school, and we must walk to the