SAMPLES OF MAX AND THE DRAGON SERIES
These are the first two of my picture book manuscripts aimed at children of up to 10 years old.
They follow the adventures of an imaginative boy called Max and his invisible pet dragon.
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Other books that I’m currently working on include,
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D’Dum the Drumstick gets the Point,
The mystery of the Missing Letters,
The Chase.
MAX AND THE INVISIBLE DRAGON SAMPLE
Max was a smart, imaginative lad,
Making things up, sometimes good, sometimes bad,
He found a strange egg down a lane one day,
Where he believed invisible dragons play.
He took the egg home and kept out of sight,
He knew it would give his mother a fright,
He took it upstairs so no one would see,
And kept it hidden, for a month… maybe three.
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When the egg hatched it was a big surprise,
You could see excitement in the boy’s eyes.
As it was cracking, he watched and waited.
Thinking what creature the egg had created.
Was it a ‘Sparrowcat’, kitten and bird,
You’ve never heard anything so absurd!
A cat and a sparrow wouldn’t be best,
As the cat would chase itself around the nest.
Maybe the egg could hold the first ‘Frogmouse’,
The slimy, furred thing would leap through the house,
Max listened hard for a purr or a croak,
But from the cracked egg all he got was some smoke.
When all the drama was over and done,
He looked all around to see what had come.
No Frogmouse or Sparrowcat but instead
An invisible dragon burning his bed.
Max knew it was real, he knew he’d been bad,
[Max] ‘If mum finds out she’d be ever so mad’,
All Max could see was its horns and its toes,
The rest, invisible, but smoke from its nose.
‘Stop’ Max shouted and the dragon arose,
With smoke still billowing out from of his nose,
Max needed some air, he knew he’d done wrong,
He opened the window and the beast was gone.
MAX AND THE POORLY DRAGON SAMPLE
Max’s dragon is difficult to see,
He’s nearly invisible to you and me,
But quick thinking Max knows he’s always there,
He sees some toes, two horns and the smoke in the air.
They like to go and play catch by the stream,
The place where the dragon can let off some steam,
They aren’t allowed to go play in the town,
As the beast has a habit of burning it down.
One day Max said to the dragon ‘let’s play,
We can go to the stream and stay there all day’,
But instead of the normal plume of smoke,
The invisible dragon just let out a croak.
He coughed and spluttered and gave a weak grunt,
A spark from his back and some smoke from his front,
Max cuddled his friend and stroked his long tail,
He guessed that the beast would look invisibly pale.
If the dragon’s ill, then in bed they’ll stay.
Until he was better they’d lay there all day!
But the beast was feeling really unwell,
And his invisible tum was starting to swell.
Max’s dragon is a bit of a beast,
Although, helps at dinner and cooks a good feast,
But he’s stubborn and won’t do as he’s told,
He’ll be worse if he is ill with a cough and a cold.
Max could hear gasses popping and bubble,
He knew that there was going to be trouble.
Max told the dragon he’d call for the doc,
As the invisible beast sneezed into a sock.
The dragon groaned; he was really not pleased,
But he burnt the curtains whenever he sneezed,
He didn’t want help, Max really had tried,
He was worried the dragon was going to hide.
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