By David Findlay Illustrated By Tuomas Karhunen
Copyright 2012 David Findlay. All rights reserved.
By David Findlay
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Thanks to Ellinora for wonderful inspiration and characters
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Say hello to Izi the Snail and her friend Aicher
the Frog. Izi and Aicher live in the Magic Forest
where they have many exiting adventures. The Magic
Forest is a wonderful place to live but there is one
problem. Also living in the Magic Forest are two bad
slugs called Muggley and Puggley.
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One sunny day Izi and Aicher One sunny day Izi
and Aicher were going for a walk. It was a lovely
day and they had packed a picnic. After a while
they came to a large open clearing and decided
to eat their picnic. The picnic was full of lovely
goodies cheese sandwiches, tomatoes, cucumber and
juice.:
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After the picnic Aicher was very tired and wanted to go for
nap, Izi on the other hand was worried that those bad slugs
Muggley and Puggley would come and steal their sweeties.
“I“m not worried about those silly bullies“ said Aicher bravely.
So they lay down on the gras s and soon they were snoring
away like two happy pigs in a muddy field. After a while
Izi woke from her nap, Aicher was still sleeping so she
decided to explore that part of the Magic Forest.
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Shortly she came to a secret door. She knew it
was a secret door because there was a sign that
said SECRET in big red letters. She knocked
softly but there was no reply. Very slowly she
opened the door and went inside.
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When her eyes got used to the
light she saw a funny looking rope
bridge. She crossed the rope bridge
and tackled the next obstacle
which was a small tunnel.
Crawling through the tunnel she
finally came to a ladder.
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When she got to the ladder she could smell some
banana toffee and wanted to take a closer look.
She climbed the ladder which is quite difficult
for a snail . At the top of the ladder there was
another door, it was open just enough for Izi to
see inside a large room.
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In the middle of the room there was a large pot of bubbling
banana toffee. On the other side of the room were Muggley
and Puggley, they had their backs towards Izi. They were
laughing and joking but Izi could not hear them.
Izi was so interested in the yummy toffee,
she crept forward trying to be as
quiet as possible. What Izi did not see was
the large X painted on the floor and
a fishing net hanging above the X.
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It was a trap set by those cunning slugs Muggley and
Puggley. Luckily for Izi, Aicher had woken up and had fol-
lowed Izi all the way into the room.
Izi slowly crept forward but before she could get to the X
Aicher jumped from the shadows and
shouted "Izi it's a trap.. RUUUN!"
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Acher grabbed Izi and ran away. Climbing down
the ladder which is quite difficult for as a snail
to do , through the small tunnel, across the rope
bridge and out of the SECRET door.
Muggley and Puggley chased after them. As they
ran away Izi remembered what her Mummy had
said when she left the house that morning “"Do
stay away from those naughty slugs and remember
that they are scared of water“."
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Suddenly Izi had an idea, “Quick“ said Izi “this
way“ and they ran towards Tea Cup Valley. Tea
Cup Valley is where all the trees have tea cups
on their branches instead of apples, oranges or
cherries.
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Izi had remembered that it had been raining that
morning and that the tea cups would be full of
water. They climbed the biggest tree and started
to shake the branches and all the water started
pour out of the tea cups. Little did Muggley and
Puggley know that they were soon to be soaked.
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They ran straight into the shower of water and
started to cry like babies. “Arrrrgggghhh we hate
water“ they yelped as Izi and Aicher laughed at
them from high up on the tree. They could not
stand the water and cried all the back home to
their mummy.
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That left Izi and Aicher free to stroll home,
eating their sweets and retelling the story of their
big adventure. They would remember that day for
a long time and how they managed to get away
from Muggley and Puggley. What an adventure
thought Izi and what a great place the Magic
Forest is to live.