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  POPPYCOCK PLACE SERIES

  The happy ghetto of the really cool

  SKY SAILING HEROES

  The Shops at Poppycock Place

  Botzi is excited by his treasure map while Alby and Fungus watch the proceedings.

  Dedicated to Sarah, Isabel and Toby

  A Children’s Story Book

  Written by Tobias Dingbat

  Illustrated by Tobias Dingbat

  Copyright 20 November 2010 by T. Dingbat

  ISBN: 978-0-9870533-0-5

  “SKY SAILING HEROES”

  Botzi receives a treasure map from a mysterious uncle. Botzi has no money and is helped by his friends. So Noodles volunteers to take all five shopkeeper friends, Botzi, Noodles, Aurora, Banjo and Izaak up in his balloon to sail it on a trip to a South American lost city. The balloon often runs out of fuel placing our heroes in dangerous predicaments. Mexican bandits, dangerous car chases, powerful Elfin war lords, plagues of killer bees, and that’s just the easy part. The “treasure” turns out to be a dangerous instrument of power left by the pharaohs, that can enslave the world. A problem arises when Alby and Fungus, the two Bio-teks who have over-ruled their ethics modules and are growing into very selfish monsters, learn details of this expedition. ….Who will control this instrument?....Is this the makings of another world dictatorship?.....

  REVIEWS

  What others are saying about “Sky Sailing Heroes”

  Rating:___Star * Star * Star * Star * Star

  World renowned novelist Charles Dickens liked the book. “Sky Sailing Heroes is full of great expectations and widened my horizons. If only they had robots in my time -Scrooge would have made a great robot.”

  Thomas Hardy was more practical: “A wobbly see-saw of adventure to be grasped firmly or otherwise used to chock up a rickety table. Snuggle up with this book on a cold winter night and I promise it can light your fire.”

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  Table of Contents

  Chapter 1___NASA’s Successful Failure

  Chapter 2___Poppycock Place

  Chapter 3___Ready to Go

  Chapter 4___Down in Mexico

  Chapter 5___Friends in Need

  Chapter 6___Bandits Dumb and Dangerous

  Chapter 7___Rescue Plan

  Chapter 8___House of Don Pablo

  Chapter 9___Horrendez Castle

  Chapter 10__The Big Chase

  Chapter 11__Show-Down

  Chapter 12__Handcuffs for You and You

  Chapter 13__Wonderland at Night

  Chapter 14__Botzi Offers Help

  Chapter 15__Bio-Teks Meet the Spirits of the Forest

  Chapter 16__Everos Attacks

  Chapter 17__Noodles Fights to the Limits

  Chapter 18__Everos Defeated but the Bots are Stranded

  Chapter 19__A Little Genius

  Chapter 20__It Really Worked

  Chapter 21__Banjo Crashes into The Underground Temple

  Chapter 22__The Last Door

  Chapter 23__Success at Last, Only to be Robbed!

  Chapter 24__What a Crazy Night!

  Chapter 25__Where did Alby Go?

  Chapter 26__The Mystery Points to Egypt

  Chapter 27__Disaster Smashes the Dream

  Chapter 28__Home to Poppycock Place

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  NASA’s Successful Failure

  Poppycock Place was just a quiet little shopping lane in a busy city. Since 1910, shopkeepers came and went, changing the business and faces of these shops every few years. In the middle of the lane stood five adjacent shops, each with two floors above, the upstairs apartments being home to all sorts of people.

  But the five shops stood vacant for many years, staring gloomily at the street. Until one day something happened.....

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  “A huge amount of money has gone into this project,” said the Deep Space Mission Director. “A new research program has been designed....it’s Plan B, if you like.”

  “Well, since they can’t be astronauts, it has been decided to use their sophistication to carry out a social experiment,” explained his colleague to the other engineers in the auditorium.