The Magic Book series, book 1 (11 page)

That afternoon,
when their mother met them from school, she asked her usual
question. “Had a good day at school today girls?” she braced
herself for the now expected sulky answers.

“ONLY THE BEST
EVER!!” chorused the girls with great enthusiasm and huge
smiles.

Now she wasn’t
expecting that!

The End.

Well, yes, it’s the end
of this adventure but……

little did Sophie and
Felicity know at the time, that there were to be more!

Why wait? I've included
a sample of their next adventure, right here, after my 'About the
Author' and 'Other Titles' piece, just to 'wet' your appetites -
pun intended! If you'd like to read the whole book, simply follow
my handy links below. Oh, and just as a warning, you might need
your swimming costumes for this one! Happy adventuring.

About the
Author

I've always had
a vivid imagination (so I'm told) and since childhood I've spent
many a happy hour reading books and writing my own stories.

Now, with two
like-minded children of my own, Sophie and Felicity, with their
love of fairies and magic, I had a reason to write the stories down
- well, the girls were very insistent actually, and I was more than
willing. Not satisfied with just one story though, they asked for
another then another, so here I am, still writing!

My mother,
Margaret, wrote, illustrated and hand bound a story each for me and
my brother when I was 8 and we treasure them still; plus I now
share it with my children too.

I've since
found out that my Grandmother, Nora, also wrote stories, which I've
just read - much to my delight - so it must be in our genes!

We hope you
enjoyed this book, and I would very much like to share my other
stories with you; to sweep you up into another dimension, one full
of new friends and their adventures together. Whether you are 4 or
104 I hope you enjoy them as much as we do, and just perhaps, they
might inspire you to write your own stories too; shh.... don't tell
anyone, but it's great fun!

I'd love to
hear from you, with constructive comments or to tell me which parts
you enjoyed the most. My contact details are below. But most
importantly, if you did enjoy this book, or any of the others
listed below please do tell your friends and family.

Discover
other titles by Elsa Bridger at
Smashwords.com
:

The Magic Book
series:

Saving the Fairies of
Serenia

This is where
it all begins! When a book isn’t just a book and when a school
isn’t just a school, Sophie and Felicity start to wonder if what
they understood to be the mundane and hum drum is in fact only the
surface! They are drawn into a battle with The Wicked One to save
not just Serenia, home to the fairies, but Earth too, the very
place we all call ‘home’.

Mermaid Secrets
-
out soon!

The second
story is in two exciting parts (but each can be equally enjoyed on
its own) and takes on a watery twist of two tails!

Felicity makes
a hasty decision to dash into the waves after a glimpsed sighting
of what she believes to be a mermaid! A short while later, with an
unforeseen and dramatic turn of events, both girls find themselves
once more in the thick of the action - with a difference!

Their newly
acquired Magic Book is urgently needed for the first time outside
Serenia, (home to the fairies) to help their new friends, but has
been left behind, high and dry, back on the beach! Luckily, it has
a few surprises left to reveal!

Mermaid Secrets and
Lies
- out soon!

Their
underwater adventure continues and, Sophie and Felicity, having
spent some time away from home now, start to feel quite desperate
to return to their parents.

But in order to
get home, they need a potion, made with special shells only found
within the mermaids' enemies' territory, deep in the ocean!

Their quest to
recover the shells, with the help of The Magic Book, leads them to
discover more than either human or merfolk could ever have
imagined!

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online
:

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Book 2 Sample:
Mermaid
Secrets

Sophie awoke
with a start. Eager anticipation flooded her consciousness as she
remembered that her parents had promised to take her and her
identical twin sister, Felicity, to the beach if it was a nice day.
She flung back her covers and wound her way to the window through
their toys strewn haphazardly on the floor. Poking her head up
through the bottom of the curtain so as not to flood the room with
light in case it woke Felicity, she looked east – YES! The sun was
already burning off the damp morning haze – it was going to be a
perfect day for the seaside, and probably warm enough to even swim
in the usually cold English sea.

She turned from
the window to see what the time was, her clock said 5am – still
really early, well not to her, but her parents would think so!
She’d have to amuse herself until someone else woke up. Her gaze
fell onto a brightly coloured shoulder bag which hung from a
clothes hook on the wall next to a full length mirror. She felt a
flutter of excitement, knowing that it contained a very special
gift from the fairies of Serenia; a magic book! She decided she’d
settle herself back into bed and imagine she was there once more,
making up her own adventure, until it was time to get up.

The family set
off early in the car to the coastal town of Eastbourne to make the
most of the day. The girls always wanted to do everything; skate,
cycle, scoot and have a picnic on the beach – not forgetting the
ice cream! They always made their way from the furthest car park,
to Eastbourne Pier by whatever mode of transport took their fancy –
usually roller blading, as they did today, and enjoyed a cooling
ice cream there before heading back to the car park. Their father
insisted he needed one too, ‘to maintain his energy,’ he had
said!

Once back at
the car, they changed their transport to bicycles and cycled back
to the ramp park – which was about half way to the pier. It was
exciting to watch the other children scale the ramps on scooters,
bikes and skateboards, doing tricks that defied gravity. Much to
their mother’s relief, Sophie and Felicity were happy to watch and
not join in.

By the time
they had returned to the car for the second time, all four of them
were more than ready for lunch on the beach.

Just half an
hour later, with tummies satisfyingly full and already a good deal
of ‘beans’ burnt off, they all felt a little more relaxed.

Felicity and
Sophie left their parents chatting about this, that and the other –
all very mundane stuff Felicity thought; like what they were going
to do next to their garden back home - and crawled into the little
beach tent their dad had put up so they could sit out of the glare
of the sun. They stretched out side by side, and relived their
adventures of the week before at school with the fairies in
Serenia.

“I never would
have imagined that The Great Oak would have been so special!”
Felicity enthused.

“Mmm, that was
the best week of my life, meeting REAL fairies - and saving
Serenia!” Sophie agreed.

“Have you got
The Book with you, Sophie?”