Boomerang Tales

By A G Collinson and Michelle Webb

HAVE YOU EVER HAD A CHALLENGE YOU JUST HAD TO TAKE?

Ever played Heads and Tails and left it all to fate?

Ever been on a Winter Holiday and discovered something magical...?

Have you ever been this excited to read a book of tall tales with a twist before...?

Then you must join in with Mag

• Language: English
• Publisher: PLAYTIME BOOKS
• Release date: Sep 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781922751119

A G Collinson

Alvina Collinson is a retired Early Childhood Teacher, who is pretty sure that she has read thousands of books to hundreds of children throughout her teaching career, and still loves to read to her grandchildren!Alvina spent an idyllic childhood growing up in a small fishing village [and consequently spent lots of time outside exploring]in New Zealand and moved to the Gold Coast at twenty one. She has lived in Brisbane, Sydney, and Perth with her husband and four children. Alvina still loves to explore and reading is her favourite pastime.She now works with her husband, helping him run their earthmoving business and of course writing!

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Tall tales for short readers that

will come back and bite you!

Boomerang Tales © 2022 AG Collinson.

All Rights Reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Printed in Australia

First Printing: August 2022

Shawline Publishing Group Pty Ltd

www.shawlinepublishing.com.au

Paperback ISBN- 9781922751935

Ebook ISBN- 9781922751119

Tall tales for short readers that

will come back and bite you!

Written by AG Collinson

Illustrated by Michelle Webb

To my dad Ian, you are the best storyteller.

Through your wild adventurous stories, my creative imagination grew.

To my mum Camilla, thanks for passing on the creative gene and for being my biggest supporter!

Acknowledgements

To my supportive family-thanks for the encouragement.

To Shawline Publishing-thanks for having faith in me.

To my readers-thanks for reading.

I hope you enjoyed reading my stories as much as I did writing them.

Stories

1

Winter Holiday

2

Shoalwater High

3

Heads & Tales

4

Captain Randy

5

Rosie’s Challenge

6

Nates Dream

Winter Holiday

Samantha sighed with happiness. After what felt like a long, long school term, it was finally over.

‘God, I love this place,’ she said with a mixture of happiness and relief. Samantha looked down as they flew low over the island, almost ready to land.

Once again, it was the July school holidays and Samantha could see that the small tropical island was already filling up with families settling in for their annual winter break. Everyone was excited, getting ready to enjoy weeks of sun, relaxing, swimming, wining and dining. Oh, the food!!!! It had to be one of the best features of the resort. It was delicious and plentiful, and the variety was pretty good too. Everyone raved about it!

As she looked down, Samantha could see movement everywhere. Kids running around squawking, Mums and Dads flapping about trying to organise their campsites, grandparents relaxing in their chosen spots enjoying the scenery and trying their best to ignore the mayhem around them.

‘Okay,’ said Samantha as she turned towards her husband and kids. ‘Listen up, everyone, once we land, we need