The Plucky Parrot: a Tiny Dog Book

By Alexa Rayburn, Clara Kay and Alexander Kay

“The rescue people came and took Freddy. The sick old man waved as the grey parrot shook his red tail feathers to say goodbye and gave one last little “Hoot”. He saw Otis wipe away a tear as the door closed on their twenty-one year friendship.”

When Otis became sick, Freddy became bored. Short on toys and

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tiny Dog Books LLC
• Release date: Mar 8, 2020
• ISBN: 9781087871172

Alexa Rayburn

Alexa Rayburn is the pen name of Nan Kopitnik.Nan Kopitnik is a Board-Certified Addiction Medicine Physician in active practice, as well as an Attorney admitted to the Florida Bar. She also serves as an editor for several online medical resources. She has published articles in medical journals, lectured at national meetings on addiction, and counseled numerous families. She is the author of four children's books and The Clockwork Adventures, a young adult dystopian adventure series. She loves to weave relationship issues into exciting adventure stories. She also authors humorous stories and scripts. From the age of seven, she was a great fan of the novels of Patrick Dennis, which she read under her covers with a flashlight. She is currently completing the sequel to The Mayhem and Medical Mischief of Dr. Olivia Day, a novella detailing the adventures of a home-visiting physician and her trusty assistant Mr. MacKenzie, who encounter spooky situations in their daily assignments. The chapters, which can stand alone as short stories, come together to unravel a mystery concerning the scary "Executive Staff" who employs them. The stories are scary, but with a comedic twist! Her most recent children's book, Shy Sam the Wolfdog, chronicles the true story of a Florida family that integrates a wolfdog into their life. The book is accompanied by teaching pages for both children and adults.Her latest achievement is the completion of the Masters of Fine Arts Creative Writing Degree Program at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida. She also is an annual vendor at Megacon Orlando, Tampa Bay Comic-Con, Tampa MetrocCon, and Holiday Matsuri, Orlando, where she sells books and merchandise from her company, TinyDog Books. She is the keeper of toy robots and one remarkable tinydog. She is the handler of five large, rescue parrots that bite with reckless abandon, and most happily the mother of two exceptionally creative and ambitious children.

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THE PLUCKY PARROT

a Tiny Dog book

By

Alexa Rayburn

Illustrated by

Clara Kay

Photography and Editing by Alexander Kay

2020 Alexa Rayburn. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written per-mission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the publisher, addressed Attention: Permissions Coordinator, at the address below.

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Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locales is completely coincidental.

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Orlando, Florida / Alexa Rayburn— First Edition

ISBN 978-1-0878-7116-5

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