By and copyright of Owen Quinn
Tales from Ballinfree is a brand new book series for children. It is a real return to the innocence and simplicity of a child’s world growing up.
It follows three friends, Rose Hoppity, a determined young frog, Lala Bumby, a brave rabbit also known as Rocket Rabbit with a love of bowties for every occasion and butterfly, Diamond Sparkle who loves all things sparkly. Together, we meet the unhabitants of Ballinfree and beyond in a series of exciting books.
Adventure is everywhere you look.
Welcome to the land of Ballinfree where anything can happen.
Join the good hearted Rose Hoppity, a young frog, Lala Bumby, the brave young rabbit and beautiful butterfly, Diamond Sparkle and all their friends on their exciting adventures.
In this volume, their class goes to the beach on a school trip for the very first time. Exploring the rockpools, Rose, Lala and Diamond meet Oscar, an octopus who has a very unique problem.
Can they help him solve his issue and get him back to his mummy before they have to return home?
Diamond hovered over a deeper pool with slightly blacker water than they had seen so far.
“Look at this!” she called.
“Wonder why the water is so different here?” asked Rose trying to see something in it. Rose, Lala and Diamond stood together looking down into the murky pool.
Suddenly a long orange…something with big white suckers all along it, slapped the rock before them. It looked like a leg of some sort. In a heartbeat another quickly followed, also slapping on the rock.
Suddenly, a huge bulbous head rose slowly before them, water running off it. Three more leg like sucker things broke from the water. They glistened with the salt water.
Lala, Rose and Diamond, all alone, clutched each other tightly in fear as they realised just how far they had come.
The great bulbous head, unlike anything they had ever seen before either in books or real life, opened two yellow and big black coin eyes on either side. The eyes stared at them as a beak where the mouth should be snapped open and shut.
“Only birds have beaks!” cried Diamond holding tightly on to the others. They were trembling, their legs refusing to run.
“What is it?” cried Rose staring at that hungry beak.
“It’s a big, baldy bird monster!” Lala cried, closing his eyes
“No, it’s…it’s a sea monster!” cried Rose. “And I think it eats frogs, rabbits and butterflies!”
The trio hugged each other tightly, afraid to move as the monster reared before them.
“Aaaaargh!”
To be continued
The Time Warriors and Beyond 