BOFFO BUTTERPHANT: Small Creature Adventures

By Allen Pollens

Magical Flying Butterphant Takes Young Friend on a Special Insect Circus Adventure
Have you ever wished to know the world of small creatures? In “BOFFO BUTTERPHANT – Small Creature Adventures,” magical Boffo, with an elephant body and wings of a butterfly, makes it possible.

Lindy pines for her missed chance to go to the circus. She stares out the window and watches as Boffo emerges out of the ordinary cocoon of a butterfly. She is delighted when the butterphant offers to take her on a special outing. In “Part One, Lindy’s Adventure,” Lindy gets to go to the Hexapod Parade, an extraordinary insect circus. Of course, it takes a little adjustment to shrink her to the right size, but Boffo comes equipped with all that is necessary. Hilda Hawk makes an unexpected appearance at the circus and takes a liking to Lindy. She is just right for Hilda’s babies in so many ways. In “Part Two – Solomon’s Story,” Boffo returns to learn that Lindy is all grown up. However, he finds her son, Solomon, alone and bored. This time, Boffo offers a getaway into the world of small animals. Solomon is more than happy to accept the birthday party invitation originally intended for his mother. Grandpa intercepts them after Boffo shrinks Solomon down to size. There’s only one thing to do ... bring him along. Good thing, too, because Scat the Cat is after Woody Wood Rat. Grandpa, Solomon, and Boffo must help Toadle the Toad, Chippy Chipmunk, and Sarah Bushy Tail to save Woody from the monster feline.

In these stories, Boffo reveals the twenty-one letter word necessary to shrink someone to insect size and a second, twenty-one letter word for restoring the person. Readers can try them out for themselves. The words are not likely to work without Boffo’s magic, but readers should be careful.
“BOFFO BUTTERPHANT – Small Creature Adventures,” has 9,000 words, 60 pages, and illustrations of Boffo, Lindy and Solomon. It is available in both paperback ($6.99) and for Kindle ($3.99) at Amazon.com. (Search on “Allen Pollens.”)
This is author Allen Pollens’ second children’s publication and seventh book published in less than two years. Retired from careers in software/hardware design, and high tech sales and marketing, Pollens has been telling stories his whole life. The stories he wrote for his children and grandchildren are the basis for three books, “Starfish Chronicles,” “Superhero,” and “BOFFO BUTTERPHANT.” Pollens also published three science fiction/fantasy volumes, “Creator,” “Alternative Lives,” and “Conjuror.” He turned his daily European vacation journal into “Al’s London and Dublin Holiday,” published in full color, with 90 photos. All are available at Amazon.com in paperback and for Kindle. (Search on “Allen Pollens”)

For more about “BOFFO BUTTERPHANT,” or Al’s other books, contact Allen Pollens at 503-407-2850 (cell).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Allen Pollens
• Release date: Feb 13, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301566136

Allen Pollens

"Starfish Chronicles" is my third fiction offering in nine months. It is middle-grade-reader fantasy and follows two adult science fiction books, "Creator, Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Epic, Earth’s Human Behavior Confronted" and "Alternative Lives, To Sleep Perchance to Dream...Another Life." In addition, “Superhero, Chronicles of Blue Knight Adventures,” book length fantasy for young adults, is just days away from publication. "Starfish Chronicles" is currently available in paperback and for Kindle at Amazon.com. My main retirement interests are travel, photography, and writing. My high-tech work life included hardware engineering on the front end, software engineering on the tail end, and 25 years of sales and marketing in between. Future writing projects include adult science fiction, “The Story Teller” (or “Conjurer” ... I have not decided yet). There is much else awaiting my attention: Butterphant stories for younger children; Lorna’s Legacy, adult novel based on true events; Sales – Honing the Craft, non-fiction. I have been telling stories my whole life. My children and grandchildren were ready audiences who assumed I could deliver a new story on demand and generally, I did.

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Boffo Butterphant

Small Creature Adventures

Allen Pollens

Copyright © 2013 by Allen Pollens

ISBN: 9781301566136

Smashwords Edition

Disclaimer

Similarities between insect, bird, animal and human characterizations in these stories and presentations, in any other media, are accidental and unintended.

Dedication

I dedicate Boffo Butterphant to my children and grandchildren for whom I composed the original versions of these stories.

Contents

Disclaimer

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Preface

PART ONE - Lindy’s Adventure

Prologue

Chapter One – Boffo

Chapter Two – Adventure

Chapter Three – Flying

Chapter Four – Hexapod Parade

Chapter Five – Samson

Chapter Six – Hilda

Chapter Seven – Escape

Chapter Eight – Home

Chapter Nine – Mom

PART TWO - Solomon’s Story

Chapter One – Bored

Chapter Two - Boffo

Chapter Three - Shrinking

Chapter Four - Grandpa

Chapter Five - Flying

Chapter Six - Friends

Chapter Seven – Scat

Chapter Eight – Weapons

Chapter Nine – Attack

Chapter Ten – Safe

Chapter Eleven – Surprise

Chapter Twelve – Lepidop …

Chapter Thirteen – Mom

Acknowledgements

I acknowledge the children in my life who allowed me the pleasure of creating and telling my stories.

I acknowledge my wife, Ellen, for her patience with my need to document yet another one of my tales. I am grateful for the suggestions she made that improved the final result. This carries as do my other writings, the unseen stamp of her contributions.

Preface

Boffo Butterphant is older than he looks. He came into my life when I conceived of the magical creature nearly a half century ago. Maybe it was only forty years. In any case, Boffo likely popped into my head while I was driving somewhere with children in the car. It was usual at such times for me to make up stories to entertain my captive audience. Don’t ask me where these tales came from, they just did and still do, even to the present day.

At some point, I wrote down the two stories included herein and stowed them away. I came upon what I had written recently and decided Boffo had waited long enough. He deserves to be shared with others. I hope you enjoy Boffo’s Small Creature Adventures.

PART ONE - Lindy’s Adventure

Prologue

There she was in the middle of a nest of baby hawks. Baby hawks … babies! They were bigger than she was. What a dilemma it was. So far she had managed pretty well. Meaning that … so far she wasn’t dinner.

Lindy’s bargain with Mama Hawk was working, but how long could she keep the