New Year Adventures From The Minds Of Children
Ollie’s Adventure Journal
Ahoy friends. I took a little break from sharing my old adventures because I was on some new adventures, haw!
I’ll tell you all about them as we go into the new year. A new year is exciting, isn’t it? All the new days ahead to do fun things. What will you do first? I’ll probably have a pizza and think about it.
In the meantime, my friend (and official biographer, Tommy) wrote a new adventure story for you and I put it here so you could read it. Have fun!
The holidays drew to a weary close…
New toys lay strewn about Ollie’s room all quite thoroughly played with. School is not yet in session. January rolled in with the precision scheduling of a commuter train.
The new year began with promise in Moonwater Meadow. Everything seemed new and shiny and hopeful. A light snow fell from a cloudy gray sky. The children gathered outside Moonwater Pizza, a favorite hangout, and discussed their plans for the coming 365 days. Of course, the minds of children are not consumed by the maladies of adulthood. Instead, they busied their minds with lawnmower racing, exciting new adventures on the high seas and achieving space flight with little more than cardboard boxes.
Ollie, contemplated the gentle fall of delicate flakes, got up from the bench and went into the field.
There, he stuck out his tongue and waited. Soon, the other children joined him and they stood smiling like a band of silly fools catching snowflakes on their tongues. Bearly There Bear wondered why they didn’t taste like powdered sugar until he decided they did. This made him happy and soon everyone commented that the snow tasted like the top of one of Ollie’s mamma’s Christmas cookies.
Nothing remained quiet for long in the Meadow.
Somewhere between adventure on the high seas and snow flurries came the canoe. A purple canoe painted with green flames that never spent a moment in the water. At the top of Mount Molehill they climbed aboard the purple green snow canoe and spent the rest of that afternoon careening up and down the mountain to the chagrin of the flowers who expected a peaceful New Year’s day.
Of course, there are no seatbelts in a canoe. Something no one realized with more gravity than Ticklebit who spent more time getting bounced out the back and into the snow. He didn’t complain. Trying to hold on was all part of the fun.
So went the first day of the first month of the new year.
How simple a thing it is to amuse children because to them, everything is filled with wonder and magic.
Welcome to 2019…
Oliver Bug is an adventurer, detective, inventor and gourmet chef residing in Moonwater Meadow. He can often be found in his workshop putting out small unintentional fires.
Tom Serafini is Ollie’s official biographer, illustrator and a sometime stand-up comedian residing in Brooklyn, New York. He has an affinity for banana pudding. His first illustrated picture book, Ollie Bug and the Icky Sticky Thing From Space, will be funded through a Kicktarter crowdfunding campaign coming this summer.
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