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    The Bunny and the Bear - A Cold and Frosty Winter
    The Bunny and the Bear - A Cold and Frosty Winter
    The Bunny and the Bear - A Cold and Frosty Winter
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    The Bunny and the Bear - A Cold and Frosty Winter

    By David Carter

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    This is a story for children and the young at heart (of any age!) It features lots of fab characters, beginning of course with the Bunny and the Bear, both of whom are desperately seeking good new homes.

    Follow the story of the Bunny and the Bear, as they set out on their quest to find a suitable new place to live, and ultimately find true happiness.

    Will they be successful and will they find contentment? The only way you will ever know is by reading the story.  Do have fun!

    The Bunny and the Bear are determined to do exactly that - Whatever it takes!

    If you like Teddy Bear stories you will love this.

    PLEASE NOTE: This is a TEXT story, NOT a picture book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrackerDog Media
    Release dateNov 1, 2017
    ISBN9781386423683
    The Bunny and the Bear - A Cold and Frosty Winter
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    David Carter

    Dr. David Carter taught at several UK universities and Yonsei University, Seoul. He published on psychoanalysis, literature, drama, film history and applied linguistics, and was also a freelance writer and journalist. He had more than 30 years experience with amateur drama, as actor, director and for many years as chairman of a leading group in the South of England. He wrote Creative Essentials on Plays... and how to produce them and The Art of Acting, Pocket Essentials on Georges Simenon and Literary Theory, and Kamera Books on East Asian Cinema and The Western.

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      The Bunny and the Bear - A Cold and Frosty Winter - David Carter

      The Bunny and the Bear –

      A Cold and Frosty Winter

      A Story for Children and the Young at Heart

      © David Carter & TrackerDog Media 2017

      Follow David on Twitter @TheBookBloke

      Take a look at: www.davidcarterbooks.co.uk

      First Edition.

      The right of David Carter to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publishers, except by reviewers who may quote brief passages in reviews.

      This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

      Published by TrackerDog Media, 118 Ringwood Road, Walkford, Christchurch, Dorset BH23 5RF, England. Please contact us for wholesale and distribution enquiries at: getcarter6@aol.com

      Enquiries welcomed from overseas and secondary publishers. 

      The Bunny and the Bear

      Chapter One

      Poppy Cottage

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      On the edge of a large dark forest lay Poppy Cottage. It had stood on the same pretty site for more than one hundred years.

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      It was a handsome little house, with a gabled roof and a broad brick chimneystack, and four large red chimney pots, standing proud on the very top.

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      On the front of the cottage were two square windows on the top floor, and two more windows on the ground floor, set either side of a red timber front door, giving the cottage a permanent appearance of smiling, or giggling, and some people said that at the dead of night, passers-by had mentioned they had heard weird giggling sounds in the area, though others doubted that strange thought. 

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      Even more weirdly, close by Poppy Cottage, was the small ancient village of Gigglyhouses. No one knew quite why it had such a funny name. Maybe it was because of the houses themselves, or the people who lived there, who for the most part, were happy and smiley, and giggly.

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      Poppy Cottage was famous for its large cottage garden that was set mainly at the front of the house.

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      In the garden, grew a mixture of pretty flowers. Tall ones, purple, pink, and white lupins, bright blue delphiniums, and foxgloves too, where the bumblebees loved to crawl inside the long flowers, and buzz away the afternoon, while hurrying to collect the golden pollen, before the flowers faded away.

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      Once loaded with as much as they could carry, the bees would rush back to the hive, to turn into sweet and golden honey.

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      Gigglyhouses was known for its honey, and people came from miles around to buy jars of the delicious spread.

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      On the ground, amongst the growing plants, hedgehogs roamed, chasing spiders and worms and slugs and snails. Happy little beasties; but covered in sharp needles to ward off foxes and badgers, and cats and dogs.

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      The rabbits came to play in the garden too, nibbling the flowers, saying a cheery good morning to the hedgehogs, who they regarded as distant cousins, but all the while they too would be on the lookout for hungry foxes. You couldn’t be too careful!

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      But the summer would not last forever, and as the days grew shorter and the nights long, the plants stopped growing, and yawned at the world, and set their seeds, and shut down for another year, and went to sleep.

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      The leaves would turn gold and red and brown, and the chilly winds of autumn would return, and blow them from the trees, where they would billow down to the ground.

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      The children would laugh and play, and scuff their feet in mini-mountains of dried rustling leaves.

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      And as it grew colder still, the rabbits returned to their deep and warm burrows, the hedgehogs would find somewhere cosy to hibernate, perhaps under a haystack, or in the corner of a disused and cobwebby shed, to sleep away the winter months, dreaming of happier times ahead.

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      On one freezing night the first frost of winter appeared, and the reedy pond froze over, and winter truly arrived, as most of the plants and animals closed down, and went to sleep.

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      People would shiver, rabbits would snore, foxes and badgers would still play out, geese rushed overhead in large groups, stretched out in V shaped formation, calling to their friends, all crying the same thing, ‘We’re going south, goosies! We’re heading south!’

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      And after they had gone, the winter hit hard. Thick ice attacked the remaining creatures and fading plants. Deep snow would cover the paths and roads and trails that wound through the forest, slowing the cars and lorries and buses to a standstill, and making walking for all creatures, difficult and treacherous.

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      There would be a long and cold winter ahead, but inside Poppy Cottage, a huge log fire was burning, a blaze that kept all who lived there, warm and cosy, and happy and giggling.

      Chapter Two

      The Tinkers

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      Poppy Cottage had been bought ten years before by a family who went by the unusual name of the Tinkers. Mr and Mrs Tinker had fallen in love with the house from the very first day.

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      It was exactly the kind of country cottage they had been seeking for quite some time, for it was a happy looking house, with a beautiful garden.

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      True, it did need a little tidying up, but Mr Tinker was good at all that kind of thing, fixing new loo seats, improving the kitchen no end, and even cleaning out the huge chimney, where bags and bags of ancient black soot came tumbling down.

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      Boy oh boy, he looked black and dirty when he had finished with that, but the sight of him standing there, his face and arms covered in dirty black soot, only made Mrs Tinker laugh heartily with joy.

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      ‘What a sight you look!’ she said. ‘You’d better go and get in the bath.’

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      And in the ten years that followed, the Tinkers produced two happy children. Timothy, though everyone called him Timmy, aged six, and Emma, who was just five, and had recently started school for the first time.

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      They were happy children in a happy family, living in a happy house, but there was something important missing. They badly wanted pets, and though Mr and Mrs Tinker were not so keen on the idea, they did hear that old Mrs French in the village was moving away to live with her son, and her big black cat wasn’t going to go with her, so the Tinkers stepped in, and agreed

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