These twelve award-winning allegories for children of all ages center on Hero’s participation in the underground Taxi Resistance against the evil Enchanter within Enchanted City. Everywhere he turns there is high drama and suffering people in need of his help: Carny, Doubletalk, Sewer Rat, Boiler Brat and the Most Beautiful Player of All. Hero encounters the evil of Traffic Court and Burning Place, but he's motivated to keep fighting by sightings of the True King which dispel all darkness from his heart and soul.
This exciting set of 12 incredible Gold-Medallion Award-Winning short stories for children of all ages (from best-selling authors David and Karen Mains) offers fast-paced action and engaging characters wrapped up in exciting storytelling that deals with good versus evil themes. This version is the original 1986 edition, WITHOUT ILLUSTRATIONS.
Enjoy reading these storybooks for children after dinner together or as bedtime stories with your kids. You'll revel in these modern fairy tales -- each chapter an allegory for your children to decipher, with short moral stories and lessons for living that convey values and virtues like honesty, compassion, loyalty, friendship, perseverance, positive self-esteem, and courage. You'll embrace these fiction fables within your family, as they are children's books with inspirational moral values and christian themes, to encourage you all to better living in this challenging world in which we live everyday. Written as a trilogy of children's fiction for kids to enjoy reading with their parents, this is book #2 of 3 in the series, good for ages 6 and up, including preteen, teen, and adults.
Some people in Enchanted City said that taxis could get you wherever you needed to go, even in power-outs. Some people said the City Taxi Company was unafraid of Burners and Breakers and Naysayers—but no one said it very loudly. The sharp wind moaned through the flop hole where Hero tried to sleep. These lonely weeks in Enchanted City had been dreadful. He was hungry and cold and felt lost. Above all, though he was ashamed to admit it, he was afraid.
No one would give him work, and what little money he had was running low. He had no idea how to sight the King, and the ominous spell of the Enchanter was weighing his heart with dread. Hero longed for the daylight of Great Park, for Caretaker and Mercie, for the laughter of friends, for the comforting sound of the watchkeepers crying, “But the kingdom comes!” He longed for home.
Light spilled through the cracks in the rickety shelters of Moire Oxan. The sentry cry of patrols disturbed the slumber of the weary people. “Sleep in the light! Sleep in the light!” they warned. Hero couldn’t sleep. Hero feared the wandering patrols. He knew an ugly scar on his cheek was evidence of branding, but he wasn’t sure this Enchanter’s mark would satisfy interrogators. Wouldn’t a Breaker demand proof of identity? Some surer certificate of adoption than the note humming in his heart?
Hero despaired. Where was the King? How was he to be found? And what part was Hero supposed to play in the Restoration?
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Inspirational Short Stories for Kids
This exciting set of 12 incredible Gold-Medallion Award-Winning short stories for children of all ages (from best-selling authors David and Karen Mains) offers fast-paced action and engaging characters wrapped up in exciting storytelling that deals with good versus evil themes. This version is the original 1986 edition, WITHOUT ILLUSTRATIONS.
Moral Stories for Children
Enjoy reading these storybooks for children after dinner together or as bedtime stories with your kids. You'll revel in these modern fairy tales -- each chapter an allegory for your children to decipher, with short moral stories and lessons for living that convey values and virtues like honesty, compassion, loyalty, friendship, perseverance, positive self-esteem, and courage. You'll embrace these fiction fables within your family, as they are children's books with inspirational moral values and christian themes, to encourage you all to better living in this challenging world in which we live everyday. Written as a trilogy of children's fiction for kids to enjoy reading with their parents, this is book #2 of 3 in the series, good for ages 6 and up, including preteen, teen, and adults.
Chapter 3 Excerpt - The Taxi Resistance
Some people in Enchanted City said that taxis could get you wherever you needed to go, even in power-outs. Some people said the City Taxi Company was unafraid of Burners and Breakers and Naysayers—but no one said it very loudly. The sharp wind moaned through the flop hole where Hero tried to sleep. These lonely weeks in Enchanted City had been dreadful. He was hungry and cold and felt lost. Above all, though he was ashamed to admit it, he was afraid.
No one would give him work, and what little money he had was running low. He had no idea how to sight the King, and the ominous spell of the Enchanter was weighing his heart with dread. Hero longed for the daylight of Great Park, for Caretaker and Mercie, for the laughter of friends, for the comforting sound of the watchkeepers crying, “But the kingdom comes!” He longed for home.
Light spilled through the cracks in the rickety shelters of Moire Oxan. The sentry cry of patrols disturbed the slumber of the weary people. “Sleep in the light! Sleep in the light!” they warned. Hero couldn’t sleep. Hero feared the wandering patrols. He knew an ugly scar on his cheek was evidence of branding, but he wasn’t sure this Enchanter’s mark would satisfy interrogators. Wouldn’t a Breaker demand proof of identity? Some surer certificate of adoption than the note humming in his heart?
Hero despaired. Where was the King? How was he to be found? And what part was Hero supposed to play in the Restoration?
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