Let The Fur Fly – Nadia Shireen

How horrid. Nancy nudged him. ‘Yo,’ she said. ‘You all right, dude?’ Wiggy nodded and wiped his eyes on his tatty old school tie. Titus sighed. ‘I knew it – it’s starting!’ he said. ‘The badgers have left Grimwood. Who will be next?’ ‘Absolute HOODLUMS!’ quacked Ingrid, who had been napping on the caravan roof. ‘Grimwood is better off without them.’ ‘I know!’ said Willow brightly. ‘Let’s make Grimwood all POSH and EXCITING and GLAMOROUS and then everyone will want to stay here!

Cos at the moment it’s smelly and grubby and looks like a massive bin.’ Titus scratched his snout. ‘You could be onto something there, young rabbit,’ he said. ‘OK, nobody move. I’ll be back soon!’ And he zoomed really fast down the hill yelling ‘Wheeeeeeeeeee!’, which is what you have to do if you ever go really fast down a hill. Everyone waited and waited and waited.

They waited so long that Ted wrote a poem, Willow assembled the world’s longest daisy chain and a wasp called Igor died of boredom. Several hours later, Titus clambered back up the hill with a flip chart and a pointy stick. ‘My dears! I have some exciting plans for Grimwood’s future!’ he trilled. He pointed to a sheet of paper on the flip chart which read: We build a MASSIVE treebonk stadium and host tournaments with teams visiting from all over the world.

We’d need to build hotels, an efficient road network and a small airport. We’d also need to chop down most of the trees and live in little grey hotel rooms with no windows. ‘NEXT,’ shouted Frank. Grimwood Aquarium! We invite some deadly sharks, a giant octopus and some killer whales to come and live in Grimwood. However, we would also need to find loads of fish tanks and quite a bit of water. ‘NEXT,’ shouted everyone.

We smear honey and glue over absolutely everything, so that whenever anyone visits they get stuck and cannot leave. ‘I like it!’ said Willow. Frank flew over to Titus and held his hoof. ‘I don’t think any of these plans will work, chief,’ he said gently. Titus kicked over the flip chart and sighed. Then he slapped his knees. ‘Right, that’s it. I’m going to pop over to Twinklenuts right now. They are our neighbours, so it’s important that I am friendly and introduce myself.

After all, it’s the Grimwood way!’ Everyone boinged their way across the mattresses on the Swamp of Despair, except Frank who swooped low over their heads. As the gang neared the edge of the swamp, they heard a low hoot from Frank, and he pointed one wing towards something looming up ahead of them.

The mayor of Grimwood. Titus is a kind old stag who is good at baking and cries at soppy films about dolphins. Wants everyone to be lovely to each other. An extremely glamorous duck who used to be in the movies. Owns a global chain of luxury hotels but currently lives on a pile of old shopping trolleys. A grumpy owl with massive eyebrows who secretly likes everyone. He spends his evenings reading difficult novels and listening to jazz. OceanofPDF.com OceanofPDF.com OceanofPDF.com The Oldest Butterfly in the World (made of crisps) OceanofPDF.com t was a peaceful afternoon in Grimwood.

The sun was shining, birds were tweeting, ants were anting and a squirrel was flying through the air at a dangerously high speed. ‘Treeeeboooooonk!’ it screamed, before splatting into a tree trunk and slumping to the ground. A whistle blew. ‘OK, let’s have a break, everyone!’ hooted an owl. His name was Frank, and he was the coach of the Grimwood treebonk team. He had very large eyebrows because some owls just do. Willow, an outrageously cute little bunny rabbit, was holding a tray of juicy orange slices for the players.

‘COME ON, TEAM!’ she bellowed. ‘Suck on these wedges of fruity goodness! Feel the vitamins pump through your veins! I wanna see you thwacking those tree trunks MUCH harder, capeesh?’ The gaggle of dizzy squirrels staggered towards her. One of them was MASSIVE and had an extremely bushy tail. That was Nancy, and she wasn’t a squirrel at all.

She was, in fact, a fox. ‘Cheers, Willow,’ she grunted, grabbing a fistful of orange. Nancy was the only fox on Grimwood’s treebonk team, but she didn’t care. She wasn’t quite as fast as the squirrels, but she was strong and her tail was powerful. It helped catapult her from tree to tree, and she was quickly becoming Grimwood’s star player.

Not bad for a scruffy fox from the Big City. ‘Yay, go Nancy!’ shouted Ted, her little brother. He waved at her from the sidelines. Treebonk really wasn’t Ted’s thing – he was more into acting and singing and writing poems about clouds – but he enjoyed watching his big sis practise. Especially if he could eat cakes at the same time. What the jiggins is Grimwood? Grimwood is a forest far, far, faaaaar away. It is full of trees and sky and mud and stones.

It smells weird and there’s loads of litter and old shopping trolleys. There’s a broken electricity pylon in the middle of it that buzzes strangely.

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.

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