The Adventures of Heidi-High-Hat and Bonnie-Blue-Shoes

By Maggie Emery

Take a walk into the secret world of the pixie-folk of Bluebell Wood and meet two little pixie-sisters, Heidi-High-Hat and Bonnie-Blue-Shoes. Look through the tiny window of their toadstool home and see how they live, and if you’re quiet and keep very still, you will see them come out to play. Join them as they meet with their friends and have all kinds of exciting adventures. They will get up to mischief and get into all sorts of scrapes, and sometimes they’ll even need rescuing by their best friend Tommy-Tiddly-Winks, who’s never far away. Come and share their adventures and discover a magical world where the animals, birds and insects who share the wood with the pixies are all brought to life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Mar 3, 2023
• ISBN: 9781398436718

Maggie Emery

Maggie Emery was born and brought up in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK, and moved to Spain with her husband in 2017. She liked to write humorous poems and enjoyed writing regular ‘blogs‘ to family and friends back in the UK but had always wanted to write a book. During the COVID lockdown in March 2020, she started writing a story to read via video link to her grandchildren. Encouraged by their response and that from friends and family, she went on to write and illustrate a further five short stories which have been put together to create this, her first published book.

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About the Author

Maggie Emery was born and brought up in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK, and moved to Spain with her husband in 2017.

She liked to write humorous poems and enjoyed writing regular ‘blogs’ to family and friends back in the UK but had always wanted to write a book.

During the COVID lockdown in March 2020, she started writing a story to read via video link to her grandchildren. Encouraged by their response and that from friends and family, she went on to write and illustrate a further five short stories which have been put together to create this, her first published book.

Dedication

For Heidi and Bonnie, who were the inspiration for my book.

Copyright Information ©

Maggie Emery 2023

The right of Maggie Emery to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.

Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

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

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.

ISBN 9781398436701 (Paperback)

ISBN 9781398436718 (ePub e-book)

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First Published 2023

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Acknowledgement

Many thanks to Robin, my husband, for his enthusiasm, encouragement and proofreading. Thanks to friends and family for their support and encouragement along the way and of course special thanks to my granddaughters, Heidi and Bonnie, who were the inspiration for this book.

Hide and Seek

Once upon a time, there were two little pixie girls who lived in a toadstool under a very old oak tree in Bluebell Wood.

These little pixies were not only sisters but great friends and full of mischievous fun. They often played tricks on each other and their pixie friends who lived nearby. Their names were Heidi-High-Hat and Bonnie-Blue-Shoes.

They loved to go off together and play in the woods and had all sorts of adventures, but they were also kind little pixies and would help each other and show kindness to other pixies and creatures that lived in the woods.

One day, after they had both just woken up, Heidi-High-Hat looked out of the window to see a grey sky and rain. ‘Oh no!’ said Heidi-High-Hat miserably. ‘It’s raining. That means we can’t go out to play.’

Bonnie-Blue-Shoes looked very disappointed and said, ‘Well, let’s have some breakfast first and perhaps the sun will come out.’

Heidi-High-Hat went to the cupboard and got out two bowls, two spoons and some fruit—an apple, a pear, some blackberries and a banana. She cut the fruit up