Are you ready to hear a story?

Brilliant!

This story is about a village by a large, scaly rock that could really do with some rain.

Please aim me to tell you all about it.

Hi Rob, cut everyone.

I hope you had a lovely Christmas.

I'm so excited to read today's story because it has a dragon in it.

Dragons make great story characters don't they?

Well let's get started.

Here's Dragon Rock by Eleanor Ashley.

This story begins with once upon a time because the best stories do of course.

So once upon a time and imagine if you can, a steep, cited valley clustered with giant

spiky green pine trees and thick green grass that reaches to the top of your socks so

that when you run you have to bring your knees up high like running through water.

Wildflowers spread their sweet, heady perfume along the gentle breezes and bees hum favorite

songs to themselves as they cheerily collect flower pollen.

People are very happy here and they work hard, keeping their houses spik and span and

their children's faces clean.

This particular summer had been very hot and dry making the lean farm dogs sleepy and

still.

Farmers whistled lazily to themselves and would stand and stare into the distance, trying

to remember what it was they were supposed to be doing.

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