Llama Out Loud!. Annabelle Sami
Читать онлайн.| Название | Llama Out Loud! |
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| Автор произведения | Annabelle Sami |
| Жанр | Природа и животные |
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| Издательство | Природа и животные |
| Год выпуска | 0 |
| isbn | 9781405297004 |
First published in Great Britain in 2020
by Egmont Books UK Limited
2 Minster Court, London EC3R 7BB
Text copyright © 2020 Annabelle Sami
Illustrations © 2020 Allen Fatimaharan
The moral rights of the author and illustrator have been asserted
ISBN 978 1 4052 9699 1
eBook ISBN 978 1 4052 9700 4
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To my very own loud and loving family:
Mum, Dad and Chloe. This book would
not exist without you. Love you.
Contents
CHAPTER ONE: Unbelieeeeeevable!
CHAPTER THREE: No Ordinary (Birth)day
CHAPTER FOUR: Feeding Time in the Lion’s Den
CHAPTER FIVE: Careful What You Wish For
CHAPTER SEVEN: A School of Fish
CHAPTER EIGHT: One More Probllama
CHAPTER NINE: Secret Agent Yasmin
CHAPTER TEN: A Load of Rubbish
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Comeback Llama
CHAPTER TWELVE: The Best Worst Day of the Week
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Disgustingly Cute
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Octogenarians’ London Daycentre
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Six Failures and a Discovery
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Wormula Bumbula
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: A Fish for School
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Something Fishy’s Going On . . .
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Levi Spills the Beans
CHAPTER TWENTY: Chaos, Thy Name is Llama
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: The Golden (OLDie) Rules
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: The Importance of Friends
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Yasmin calls the Shots
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Worse to Worserer
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Listen to Me!
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Yasmin to the Rescue!
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: The Grand Checkers Tournament Final
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Your Local Community Llama
There are some stories that are hard to believe. If you’re smart (which I can already tell you are, dear reader) then you won’t believe everything you’re told. For instance, I’ve never trusted fairy tales. I mean, come on. Do they expect us to believe that you can survive being eaten by a wolf? I’m also pretty sure that a house made of gingerbread would melt in the rain, or at least attract a few flies.
Since you’re clever, I’m sure you’ve always questioned those horror stories about kids that lost all their teeth eating too many sweets. Maybe you’ve watched a film and annoyed your friends by saying, ‘That would never happen in real life!’
Well, I’ll be honest with you. This story is hard to believe. But unlike a fairy tale, it doesn’t take place in a faraway kingdom. Instead, we’ll be travelling to the streets of Whitechapel in East London – a place you might hear the locals call ‘The Ends’ – where you can buy a samosa for a pound or a rainbow-coloured bagel from the many street vendors on Brick Lane. People from all around the world live under this one postcode, and even more come to visit on Sundays when the market is in full swing. It’s a small corner of London, but there’s a whole world inside it. And, despite what you might be thinking, the hero of our story isn’t some cockney geezer. It’s a girl – Yasmin.
Oh, and a llama. A toy one, of course, not a real one. That would be weird.
By now you must be thinking, that does sound unbelievable!
I know. But believe me. It’s real.
P.S. There’s