Böcker av John Gargus

This is the fourth of five stories I wrote for my grandsons Dylan and Kemper while they were students at the Montessori School of Rome in Georgia. Their mother, Miss Dolores, was a schoolteacher there. This is an educational story intended for the fifth grade and older students. It features the same set of jungle characters as the previous stories and focuses on the flying experiences of Turtle TUTTLE - the new kid in school. He flies high over the jungle, chases a rainbow, and gets hopelessly lost. He spends the night trapped in tall grass where he landed after an exhaustive search for his home. He must chew his way out of the grass and find a jumping off place in a renewed search for his home. Finally, his bird friends find him and escort him back to the school for a joyous reunion with worried family and new friends.

This is the third of five stories I wrote for my grandsons Dylan and Kemper while they were students at the Montessori School of Rome in Georgia. Their mother, Miss Dolores, was a schoolteacher there. This is an educational story featuring the same set of jungle characters as the previous stories and introducing a physically challenged newcomer, Turtle TUTTLE, who can barely walk because of his flattened butterfly-like feet. On his first day in school TUTTLE learns why birds can fly and becomes convinced that the same principles of flight should apply to him and that he should also be able to fly. Is he right?

This is the second of four stories I wrote for my grandsons Dylan and Kemper while they were students at the Montessori School of Rome in Georgia. Their mother, Miss Dolores, was a school teacher there. She read the stories to her class as a treat to her young students who heard Dylan boast that his Papa wrote stories for him. This story about redemption and cooperation on the school grounds. Parents of students heard about these stories and enjoyed reading them. Little Gorilla MEG is too small to join others and is playing by herself in the sand by the Watermelon Rock. Giraffe ASHLEY comes to see what she is doing and her thin leg punches through a hole in the sand to an empty space below. She jumps back and Hippopotamus MOUSS comes to see what is happening. As he steps closer to MEG, the surface cover for an ancient well gives away under his weight and she falls through to the water 10 feet below. Everyone panics. Little MEG is not injured, but she cannot swim. MOUUS is a good swimmer, so he tries to coach her about how to stay afloat. As before, Hyena RICK comes up with a solution. They summon SASS's dad Python ZAZZ who is 20 feet long. He can reach down to MEG, but can't pull her out without slipping down the well. MOUUS steps up to provide the solution. He provides anchor point for ZAZZ who wraps his neck around his foot and succeeds in pulling MEG out of the well. So MOUSS, who had shamed himself in the first story becomes a collaborative hero who had redeemed himself.