A Seagull Stole My Bellybutton

by Derek Mortimer

Overview

A Seagull Stole My Bellybutton
Derek Mortimer
Leanne’s day at the beach with her mother and father is going fine, until she lays down to rest in the sun after building a sandcastle. Then (it is hard to believe) but a seagull steals her bellybutton.
Leanne, however, is not the sort of girl to let a squawking gull carry her navel out to sea without a fight, because every girl needs one. You need a bellybutton to put a navel ring in when you grow up. You need a bellybutton so you can show a fashionable bare midriff – without a bellybutton, how will you know where mid and the riff are? And most of all, you need a bellybutton to keep everything fastened up inside. If you have no bellybutton, your belly is going to fill with water when you go swimming and all your guts will be washed away.
So, Leanne gives chase, with the help of the beach lifeguards, board riders, and a surf rescue chopper.‘Seagull’ is a light hearted story about bellybuttons, beaches and not giving in no matter what the odds.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940046531015
Publisher:	Derek Mortimer
Publication date:	01/19/2015
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	176 KB
Age Range:	5 - 13 Years

About the Author

I live in Sydney, Australia, and grew up in Bradford, Yorkshire, the then, industrial north of England, a place of mills, mines and muck. But, beyond the cities were sweeping moors that seemed to go on forever, an exciting landscape for a boy to explore. Which is probably why when I moved to Australia I fell in love with the great open spaces of the Snowy Mountains – and the sea. I love ocean swimming, and ocean swimming is also a journey across space.
I’m lucky in the sense that I am at home in two countries; in one I am an immigrant, in the other an emigrant. Some of my stories reflect this duality, the immigrant’s life, and the days of childhood in another country. I have an Australian wife, two daughters who were born in England but grew up in Australia, two Australian-born granddaughters, and countless members of an extended family on both sides of the world.