The Elephant Buttons - Oatley, Margaret
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Six year old Polly visits her Grandmother who lives on a remote farm in the African bush-veld. It is the first time Polly is away from her family, and she deems the visit an adventure. During that first night, in a strange bed, her bravado is shattered by the noises made by the wild animals roaming outside in the dark and she imagines a leopard sneaking in to lie under her bed. Grandmother Nor answers Polly's) whimpers and soothes the frightened child by saying, "I too, was scared when I first came to live here, for Wales is my home country. It is a land where no African animals live. All I…mehr

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Six year old Polly visits her Grandmother who lives on a remote farm in the African bush-veld. It is the first time Polly is away from her family, and she deems the visit an adventure. During that first night, in a strange bed, her bravado is shattered by the noises made by the wild animals roaming outside in the dark and she imagines a leopard sneaking in to lie under her bed. Grandmother Nor answers Polly's) whimpers and soothes the frightened child by saying, "I too, was scared when I first came to live here, for Wales is my home country. It is a land where no African animals live. All I could do was use my imagination and call on my Welsh fairies to protect me. "Believing is seeing", old Nor explains. "I believe in my faeries and that may seem far-fetched to most people, but because I believe them to be here with me, I do not fear the wild animals any more. "This is the basis of my tale. Woven into all of it is Polly's quest to find out more about a being called "You-know-who".
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Soon after we married my husband took me by the hand and led me to the wild places where he worked as a game ranger and a biologist. I was in heaven and although I was an artist the natural places and wild animals around me held so much interest that I wanted to write for children. Little was written for children at that time and I wanted to pass my knowledge on. Shuter&Shooter published my Taffy Tales (now out of date) as a school reader and perhaps The Elephant Buttons can be used the same way. Taffy Tales was made into a school play and became a tape for the blind. I have written stories all my life but have not been successful in publishing them. D2D gives me that chance.