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    The Mole Who Wanted to Fly
    The Mole Who Wanted to Fly
    The Mole Who Wanted to Fly
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    The Mole Who Wanted to Fly

    By Pendragan

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    The endearingly illustrated and humorous tale of a mole who refuses to give up on her dream! Sky wants to fly. She just doesn’t believe that moles are only meant to dig, or in her case, make pots. Despite what the other moles tell her, she is determined to get herself airborne. Her journey starts as she tries to make friends with the birds. Feathery birds and fantasy birds all fail her. Then one night, Sky dreams up a bird with a difference... the question is, can her dream take flight?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDragan Matijevic
    Release dateAug 20, 2015
    ISBN9781311329172
    The Mole Who Wanted to Fly
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    Pendragan

    'Pendragan' is the pen-name for children's fiction-writing duo Penny Williams and Dragan Matijevic. They also write independantly as Penny Williams and Dragan Matijevic (adult fiction, self-help and cookery books). They launched Pendragan Publishing as an independent, international publishing platform for storytellers around the world. If you would like news about forthcoming publications, or books in the works, or if you have questions about any of the characters, please let us know. Dragan Matijevic Dragan started writing during the war that broke up Yugoslavia in the early '90s. Living in England with his one-year old son at the time, Dragan wondered how he could help his people in Croatia. The solution turned out to be magic! Dragan founded a theatre charity called Rise Phoenix, wrote his first puppet play for children, created his own puppets, and together with a bunch of troubadours, jesters and jugglers, drove a truck down to the war zone. In 1993, "Peppe the Magician" began to appear in refugee camps throughout Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. Small puppets and theatre plays gave way to giant puppets and theatre spectacles. Children who had lost everything rediscovered the ability to laugh. Adults slowly joined in. One Croatian soldier shouted from the audience, "Croatia needs puppets, not guns!" Quentin Blake agreed and gave permission for Rise Phoenix to take his Big Friendly Giant to the war zone. Dragan went on to write and perform in many other children's plays, quite a few of which are now stories and novels. When not writing, Dragan teaches at The Artisan Bakery School, and continues to perform as the magician Sol Ray. Penny Williams As a child, Penny would row ashore to school from the sailing boat she grew up on with her family. This gave her a quirky view on life, encouraged by the stories she heard from blue-water sailors arriving in Falmouth Harbour. Penny grew up with a hunger for distant horizons and foreign shores. Her explorations took her to Europe, Africa, South America, Asia and even Antarctica. But her biggest adventure, which was falling in love with a Croatian magician (Dragan), happened right on her own front door step in England! So far, their story includes building their own woodfired oven for The Artisan Bakery School, moving to a crazy old cottage in Devon, taking an Invisible Man to Singapore, working with children in Sri Lanka and India and kayaking round the islands of Dalmatia. Penny also runs a professional copywriting, editing and translation business. She and Dragan write together to celebrate the magic that happens in real life. *** Connect With Us *** penny@pendragan.com www.pendragan.com

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      The Mole Who Wanted to Fly - Pendragan

      The Mole Who Wanted to Fly

      Written by Pendragan

      with illustrations by Alina Bradu

      ***

      Published by Pendragan Publishing

      Smashwords Edition

      ISBN:

      Text and Illustrations Copyright © 2013 Pendragan

      ***

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      ***

      Pendragan Publishing

      Old Home Cottage

      Sparkwell

      Plymouth PL7 5DQ

      United Kingdom

      First Edition 2013

      Table of Contents

      The Mole Who Wanted to Fly

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: Dinner At Sky's House

      Chapter 2: Sky Meets Some Stuck-up Birds

      Chapter 3: An Eagle? Or a Parrot? Or a Dodo?

      Chapter 4: Water Eagle

      Chapter 5: Alive

      Chapter 6: Sky Wakes Up

      Chapter 7: Wonder Moles

      Thank you for purchasing this book!

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      Dragan Matijevic

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      Chapter 1: Dinner At Sky's House

      What a load of codswallop! Tuff suddenly burst out. "We moles were made to dig, not fly!"

      Tuff was Sky's best friend. She had invited him round for dinner, as usual on Thursdays, and they'd just settled down to eat.  His outburst was very

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