Ludys Adventures

I've been playing around with a little book for my grand daughter. If you don't mind take a look at a very early draft and let me know what you think! This is just another adventure that has been waiting for me. Peace!

 

 

Ludy's Adventure( working on title)

 

 

Sounds of vroom, vroom,vroom, swish slosh, swish slosh, ka choon, ka choon, vroom swish slosh ka choon all accompanied by background music, gushed into Ludy’s room!

*“Seriously, I can’t hear myself think! Where is all this racket coming from? It sounds like a freight train running through my house!” Ludy thought as she tried to play a game on her new Nintendo.

*Ludy finally got fed up and bounded down the stairs to see what all the commotion was.

*The wild noises Ludy heard were coming from the vacuum cleaner, washing machine and dishwasher all running at the same time and Momma listening to some crazy music on Pandora.

*Momma was doing some major spring cleaning! But why now it was midsummer not spring? Then it popped into Ludy’s mind what all the fuss was about; company was coming for dinner from papa’s work. Important company! Ludy now understood why her Momma was a little on the frazzled side.

* Ludy thought, "I desperately need to go out to ‘Violet House’ because this house is driving me crazy, like a fly zooming all around in my head!!! I can't hear myself think much less play my game!”

*Ludy had no idea what was in store for her later that day when she slipped out the sliding back door and headed to the thick woods in their backyard.

*Shrub trees made a thick wall that helped to shut out the rest of the world. “Peace at last” Ludy thought as she entered her special hideaway. She named it “Violet House” because there were millions of wood violets growing around there.

*Inside the shrub tree wall stood a magnificent ancient oak tree. It had giant gnarly roots pushing up through the ground around it's base.They looked like huge octopus tentacles rising up from the deep ocean waters.

*Ludy always felt like there was something extra special about this place, it had a magical kind of feeling that was really hard to explain.

*She had built her playhouse in between the big roots that seemed to separate and form rooms. Looking around Ludy surmised  “this is a place even Oak Fairies would be proud to live.”

*Ludy could play there for hours totally unaware of the goings on in the outside world.

*Today she was making a rug out of leaves, but they wouldn’t stay put because the wind was making it’s way in through the shrub wall. Not giving up, Ludy continued putting the leaves back in place, even though it was beginning to get a little frustrating chasing the leaves all around!

*Violet House, was an extraordinarily special place. It was a place Ludy could go when she needed to think or to just be alone. Sometimes her friends' came there to play and her Momma would make special lunches with apples, peanut butter and extra special good cheese, from the cheese store down the street. The people that owned it always gave Ludy scrumptious samples! Ludy liked the white cheese with the blue green mold in it best of all. Ludy’s Momma would make “healthy water” that had all kinds of fruit and stuff soaking in it, and then put it in a thermos for them to drink. She explained that it would keep them hydrated. Whatever that meant.(note: put recipe for water in back of book.)

*Earlier that day her momma had given her a faded out, old, blue camping blanket they didn't use anymore. Ludy

already had a collection of old ceramic cups, tin camping plates,and some odds and ends forks, spoons and very, very dull knives. Ludy's favorite thing her Momma had given her was an old green vase shaped like a bunch of bluebonnets. Ludy’s Oma had given it to her Momma when she lived in Texas.That made it even more special to Ludy, because she loved her Oma very much.  The vase had a chip on one of the blooms but that didn’t matter, it was still very beautiful.

*Ludy loved all kinds of flowers and her vase was always full of something from the woods or their yard, her Momma would even buy flowers for her sometime, if they were on sale. Today it had dandelion blooms in it but she didn’t know who put them there.

*Because of the wind getting stronger, Ludy’s new blanket wouldn't stay on the branch she had put it on to make a wall. Her stick furniture kept moving to different parts of the room! Wind was fun sometimes and it made great music when it passed through the leaves in the big tree above her. This wind however was interrupting her play time.

*Ludy was getting tired but she wanted to stay in Violet House a while longer. So, she took the blanket from the limb and folded it over to make a sleeping bag. Ludy curled up inside and soon was fast asleep.

Rosemary Theobalt Wootton 7/3/13

*“Leafy”, an oak fairy, fluttered to the top of a deep hole in the back of the giant oak tree. “Oh my! Leafy said quietly.”the human child is asleep and there is a storm coming fast!” Leafy called for the other fairies with her whistle, that only the fairies could hear, kind of like a dog whistle. Viola, Barky, and Dandy Lion, came immediately to see what was going on. The fairies didn’t come to the surface very often during daylight hours. It wasn’t safe for them especially when the birds and cats were around, they didn’t want to end up being someone’s lunch! Barky said, “let’s get out of here it’s not our problem!” Viola responded back “ Barky, that is a horrible thing to say! We are good fairies, and it’s our job to help when we are needed!” Leafy chimed in “We must do something to help!” So the fairies tried sitting on Ludy’s sleeping bag to hold it down in the gusting wind but they were being blown all around. Suddenly, sand started blowing in with the wind and the fairies had an enormous decision to make! “We could use the fairy dust that makes things smaller" said Viola hesitantly, " but we only have a tiny bit and I don’t know if we can get anymore?” Finally,they all decided it was for the best to take Ludy into their underground world,where no human child had gone before! * Sprinkling her with the nearly extinct fairy dust, Ludy was made to fit into their world.Together they all went spiraling, down,down, down, carrying a sleeping Ludy, into the hole that led to Oakland, home of the great Oak Fairy. *The storm up above grew stronger and stronger until you couldn’t see Ludy’s house from the grove of trees. Gratefully, Ludy was safe and sound below ground level with a troop of fairies. Ludy slowly woke up from the effects of the fairy dust to find herself surrounded by bright colorful flickering lights and the slight whispering sounds of flapping fairy wings. “Wh,wh,wh, where am I?” Ludy asked, a little afraid to hear the answer. “You are safe my little friend “ answered Leafy. “We brought you here to keep you safe from the storm roaring above us.”Who, who, who are you?” Ludy stammered. “ We are the ancient guardians to the opening of Oakland, found at the base of the Grand Oak.” replied Dandy Lion. Let us introduce ourselves as Leafy pointed to Viola, “Hello, I’m Viola and I am very shy. I have a special gift of becoming invisible when it is necessary, and I love purple” Leafy directed her gaze toward Dandy Lion “ Hi! I’m Dandy Lion, I am not shy I’m funny, my gift is making others sneeze when I want them to. You can just call me Dandy!” They all turned to look at Leafy, “Hello, child. My name is Leafy and I am the granddaughter of the Great Oak ________ I am the leader of all the fairy clans, my gifts are varied, I can hear what others are thinking when it involves someone’s safety, I can see into the future but only when it is for protection of my clans, I also can call down mountains of leaves at a moments notice! I love green and have been accused of excessive mothering. Now tell us about you!
Rosemary Theobalt Wootton 7/6/13