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    Gloria The Chipmunk
    Gloria The Chipmunk
    Gloria The Chipmunk
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    Gloria The Chipmunk

    By Richard Tornello

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    Gloria The Chipmunk includes a series of engaging full color illustrations complemented by dynamic graphite sketches. Gloria the Chipmunk by author and poet Richard Tornello is a dynamite children’s debut fantasy collection about a few furry forest folks. Three winsome, fast-paced, and cheeky fables in all,Richard Tornello creates an imaginative, down to earth world that is filled with camaraderie, team spirit, and a few nut gatherers. One of them is Gloria, a plucky chipmunk who is the youngest of her wee rodent clan. Not known as the sharpest tool in the shed, there are many who mistake Gloria’s quiet ways, but, in this truly generous coming of age narrative, Gloria takes center stage when she embarks on new adventures and demonstrates that she is one smart cookie. As she makes her way in the woods, she learns how to fend for herself, how to keep her own counsel, and, no matter what, do what is in her heart. Perfect for intermediate readers, these stories are great fun for the whole family.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Tornello
    Release dateJun 27, 2011
    ISBN9780615496665
    Gloria The Chipmunk
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    Richard Tornello

    I write Science fiction short stories on www.aphelion.com and www.kalkion.com,I have a number of poems some of an adult nature and others for both children and adults to enjoy , like Dust Bunnies and Pantry Goblins. Some of my poems have been nominated as "One of The Best of the Year" for the last 4 years on APHELION, and I have a few stories in the best of too.One book for Children and adults to read to children, it's sort of a hybrid GLORIA THE CHIPMUNK and is available on AMAZON or www.nonofficialrhymes.comI have 4 short stories in an anthology "The Flash of Aphelion".

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      Gloria The Chipmunk - Richard Tornello

      Gloria the Chipmunk

      Richard Tornello

      Illustrations by: Jannine Breddy

      Copyright © 2011 by Richard Tornello

      ISBN eBook: 978-0-615-49666-5

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      Dedicated to

      Jonella Hubbard

      Jan Adgate

      June Yamayoshi

      Jannine Breddy

      Table of Contents

      BOOK 1:

      Gloria the Chipmunk

      BOOK 2:

      Gloria’s Grandpa & How Gloria Met OTTO the Hawk

      BOOK 3:

      Sam the Squirrel

      BOOK I

      GLORIA THE CHIPMUNK

      Gloria, the youngest of a family of chipmunks was thought to be old enough and finally tasked, to go to the market for some selected items for her Mother. Her mother gave her the correct amount of money she would need for the transaction. Gloria was thrilled to now have the responsibility. Gloria counted the money and looked over the list smiling to herself. Up until today all her brothers and sisters did their chores, made the purchases were assigned duties typical of all good chipmunk families. She was the last of the family to be tasked to go to the market. There was a family assumption that Gloria was not the brightest of the brood. They mistook her quietude for less than stellar intelligence. But everybody had a job or jobs to do, even Granpa. Now it was Gloria’s turn.

      Granpa is a stubborn old coot, at least that’s what Dad always said. He refused to wear bifocals and his close-in eyesight made him almost blind. However with his regular glasses he had keen vision. He could see a ladybug on a leaf at fifty feet or spot a hawk invisibly high in the sky. So he was the family Watcher. A Watcher was the lookout for hawks and other nasty beasts.

      Gloria thought being a lookout was a way for Granpa to escape all the chatter in the house. Their home was full of noise all the time. Everyone has to fight for airtime, her mother would say as she attempted to teach them polite manners. Manners were reinforced by the brush.

      "The path is clear of any danger. You may go now.

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