POPPYCOCK PLACE SERIES
The happy ghetto of the really cool
SKY SAILING HEROES
The Shops at Poppycock Place
Botzi is excited by his treasure map while Alby and Fungus watch the proceedings.
Dedicated to Sarah, Isabel and Toby
A Children’s Story Book
Written by Tobias Dingbat
Illustrated by Tobias Dingbat
Copyright 20 November 2010 by T. Dingbat
ISBN: 978-0-9870533-0-5
“SKY SAILING HEROES”
Botzi receives a treasure map from a mysterious uncle. Botzi has no money and is helped by his friends. So Noodles volunteers to take all five shopkeeper friends, Botzi, Noodles, Aurora, Banjo and Izaak up in his balloon to sail it on a trip to a South American lost city. The balloon often runs out of fuel placing our heroes in dangerous predicaments. Mexican bandits, dangerous car chases, powerful Elfin war lords, plagues of killer bees, and that’s just the easy part. The “treasure” turns out to be a dangerous instrument of power left by the pharaohs, that can enslave the world. A problem arises when Alby and Fungus, the two Bio-teks who have over-ruled their ethics modules and are growing into very selfish monsters, learn details of this expedition. ….Who will control this instrument?....Is this the makings of another world dictatorship?.....
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What others are saying about “Sky Sailing Heroes”
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World renowned novelist Charles Dickens liked the book. “Sky Sailing Heroes is full of great expectations and widened my horizons. If only they had robots in my time -Scrooge would have made a great robot.”
Thomas Hardy was more practical: “A wobbly see-saw of adventure to be grasped firmly or otherwise used to chock up a rickety table. Snuggle up with this book on a cold winter night and I promise it can light your fire.”
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1___NASA’s Successful Failure
Chapter 2___Poppycock Place
Chapter 3___Ready to Go
Chapter 4___Down in Mexico
Chapter 5___Friends in Need
Chapter 6___Bandits Dumb and Dangerous
Chapter 7___Rescue Plan
Chapter 8___House of Don Pablo
Chapter 9___Horrendez Castle
Chapter 10__The Big Chase
Chapter 11__Show-Down
Chapter 12__Handcuffs for You and You
Chapter 13__Wonderland at Night
Chapter 14__Botzi Offers Help
Chapter 15__Bio-Teks Meet the Spirits of the Forest
Chapter 16__Everos Attacks
Chapter 17__Noodles Fights to the Limits
Chapter 18__Everos Defeated but the Bots are Stranded
Chapter 19__A Little Genius
Chapter 20__It Really Worked
Chapter 21__Banjo Crashes into The Underground Temple
Chapter 22__The Last Door
Chapter 23__Success at Last, Only to be Robbed!
Chapter 24__What a Crazy Night!
Chapter 25__Where did Alby Go?
Chapter 26__The Mystery Points to Egypt
Chapter 27__Disaster Smashes the Dream
Chapter 28__Home to Poppycock Place
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NASA’s Successful Failure
Poppycock Place was just a quiet little shopping lane in a busy city. Since 1910, shopkeepers came and went, changing the business and faces of these shops every few years. In the middle of the lane stood five adjacent shops, each with two floors above, the upstairs apartments being home to all sorts of people.
But the five shops stood vacant for many years, staring gloomily at the street. Until one day something happened.....
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“A huge amount of money has gone into this project,” said the Deep Space Mission Director. “A new research program has been designed....it’s Plan B, if you like.”
“Well, since they can’t be astronauts, it has been decided to use their sophistication to carry out a social experiment,” explained his colleague to the other engineers in the auditorium.