Walking on the Wind - Leon Taylor

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Résumé :
Most other folks couldn't believe it either, Burt and Clancy with their cat, who had no name, looking for paradise. They got the idea over a barrel of pickled pig's feet. The giant and wise old sea turtle told them that paradise was across the ocean...

Biographie:
That is what they were doing all right. Most other people couldn't believe it either. Those two and their pet cat, who had no name, looking for paradise? It was the wise old sea turtle who told Burt and Clancy that paradise was across the ocean. His friend, the king bullfrog, and his warrior frogs had sailed there on their lily pad raft with sails. It wasn't that easy for Burt and Clancy, however, they had no lily pad raft with sails. Captain Jack told the three he could take them to paradise on his sailing vessel, Utopia. He had been there many times, he said, but he made them run the plank once they were out to sea after robbing them of what little they had. Their lives were in danger, to be sure, but the mighty current called Swabbies' Revenge swept the three ashore where they found a strange musician and his pet mongoose. The musician comforted them with his many songs of paradise but said he knew nothing of it when they questioned him as to paradise's whereabouts. Prospector Pete knew nothing of paradise, and neither did his burro, Clem. They were in the desert looking for their lost city of gold. They had found it in this desert long ago, but it was gone when they returned to get its gold. Prospector Pete didn't know where paradise could be found, but he did point the three to the distant mountains that they could pass through to get to the ocean. From there, they decided, they would walk along the shoreline to the other side of the ocean where paradise could be found. It was in those mountains that the Spirit of the Sacred Valleys found the three. She came to them as an old and humble woman in need. Paradise could only be found through transcending their ordinary state, and that would only be if they found favor with her....

Sommaire:
the king bullfrog, Thor, and his warrior frogs had sailed there on their lily pad raft with sails. Burt and Clancy had no lily pad raft with sails, but Captain Jack said he had been to paradise many times and could take them there in his boat, Utopia. Once out to sea, he made them run his plank after robbing them of what little they had. Their lives were in danger, to be sure, but the mighty current called Swabbies' Revenge swept the three ashore where they found a wandering minstrel and his pet mongoose. The minstrel comforted them with his many beautiful songs of paradise, but he told them he didn't know where paradise was. Deciding to walk around the ocean to get to the other side, where paradise could be found, they became lost in a desert where Prospector Pete was searching for his lost city of gold. It had eluded him ever since he first saw it, but he did point the three to the distant mountains that they could pass through to get to the ocean. It was in these mountains that they came upon the Spirit of the Sacred Valleys. She appeared to them as a humble old woman in need, so they offered her the beans and sourdough biscuits Prospector Pete had given them. It was after this that the three travelers unexpectedly found themselves on an island. Clancy wanted off. How were they going to find paradise if they were stranded on an island, he protested. He built a raft, but the ocean tossed it back upon the beach and crushed it into the sand with its mighty waves. Searching for another way off the island, the three came upon the giant king bullfrog, Thor, and his warrior frogs. After much persuasion, Thor's counsel of wise frogs was unable to convince Clancy that there was no finer place to live than here, and he should stay....