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Be STRONG FIGHT AGAINST FEAR
A Children's Book
By Andrew Balkcom AuthorHouse
Copyright © 2013 Andrew Balkcom
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4817-5123-0
CHAPTER 1
The story begins with Andrew the Cat ... lying in the sun, in his backyard on a hot summer day. Having just finished a game of basketball with his Father, Andrew took off his favorite T-shirt to cool down. As he lies there resting and watching birds fly above, the meanest dog in the neighborhood storms through his fence towards him. "Fear" was his name, though he wasn't very fearful at all.
Fear, a German Shepherd just looked mean and tough, because he's so big and tall. As he approaches, Andrew watches him closely. Andrew's eyes never leave Fear's face. "Hello Andrew," Fear said. This was not like Fear to greet others so nicely. Andrew politely responds for he wants no trouble. "Hello!" Standing over him, pretending to be nice while looking at Andrew's cool stuff on the ground, Fear says ...
"Look at the sun! Isn't it beautiful?" Now, everybody knows not to look directly at the Sun; but to make nice, Andrew turns his head to look in its direction anyway. It blinds him for a moment. Andrew smiles as he turns back to respond to Fear, but Fear wasn't there. Fear had disappeared. "Weird" Andrew thought. He shrugged his shoulders and rolled back over.
As he curled into a ball to watch the birds some more and take a catnap, he noticed that his favorite "Be Strong" T-shirt had gone missing. Andrew knew it wasn't in the house because he had left with it on that morning. Looking around his yard, he remembered he took the shirt off while playing basketball with his Dad. "Aww, Man!" Now he can't return to catnapping and bird watching. He must find his shirt!
Andrew sat up! Stretched and left his house to go look for it? He goes next door to the old grumpy Hawk, Swish's house, who's always threatening to snatch up anyone who crosses his path. He sees Swish sitting on his fence post. "LEAVE NOW ... before I have you as my lunch," Swish threatens! But Andrew ignores Swish's threats, and asks, "Have you seen my favorite "Be Strong" T-shirt?"
"No, I have not seen your favorite T-shirt you puny critter." "NOW LEAVE!" Swish demands. His piercing dark brown eyes stare at Andrew as he exits. Upset with Swish's lack of cooperation, Andrew does as he's told. He then crosses the street and walks towards Burden, the Raccoon's house. He doesn't see Burden outside playing, so he knocks on his front door. Burden opens the door and hisses at Andrew, looking him up and down.
(Continues...)
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