The Land of Little People By Callum Hays

Illustrations by
Marcelo Pedruzzi Ferranti & Roberta Hays
Dedicated to my year 3 teacher Mrs Hams
Who encouraged me to write this book.

Once there was a boy named Max power but everybody called him Max. One day Max went to take his dog (Ruby) for a walk. But while he was taking Ruby for a walk, Ruby ran away, then Max found 2 trees that looked the same, so he walked between the trees then he vanished. He ended up in Indonesia in 1655 on a hill.

Max looked down from the hill and saw what looked like puppets except with no strings so he went to see what they were. When he got off the hill he saw that the puppets weren’t puppets or animals they were miniature sized humans! He stared in amazement and asked them “where am I” they stopped working and just stared at Max and said “Him”.



They all rushed to Max and stared at Max again. Then the chief came towards Max and gave Max a sword and said, “fight!” then 2 small people instantly and dragged Max on the ground. They came to a stop at a cave, they pointed at the cave and said danger so Max definitely knew there was danger in that cave.



Then the little men pushed Max into the cave. Max tried to run out of the cave but the small humans were guarding the way out so he guessed he had to face the terrible beast that lay at the back of the cold and dark cave behind him, Max turned around and walked slowly toward the end. ½ a minute later… Max was still walking slowly but his legs were acing then something growled “who’s there” yelled Max, at this moment Max’s heart was temporarily beating aloud then max saw a sliver in the dark he looked closer then it hit him!



It was a half shark half dragon sort of monster Max quickly pulled his sword out of its case, but it hit him again before he could get any grip on the sword this time Max hit the monsters body but nothing happened? Not a scratch? Then he remembered some survival tips he red in a book once in the library it said: A shark’s weak spot is its gill’s or its eye’s. Then the Monster started blowing fire and almost hit him but he quickly dodged the attack then he aimed and threw the sword into the Monsters gills and killed it.

Max had scratches all over him and was very weak. Then max went to look at the dead Monster, he looked behind it and took his Sword out, he looked back up again but this time he saw a shining golden thing in the shape of an oval, it was an egg! Max looked behind him and saw 4 small humans running towards him. They got closer and closer until they were only 5 meters away then 2 of them grabbed Max but the other 2 were going toward the egg.
The small humans took him and the egg back to their village.



When he got closer to the village he saw a fire unlike any other, with flames of, green, blue, yellow, red and orange then they threw the egg into the fire but why? Why would someone throw a giant golden egg into the fire? But then he noted that the clouds where turning into gold and then formed a twister!

Max tried to run away from the twister but it sucked him up too early. Soon Max was spinning around so fast he almost spewed, then the twister stopped and Max was falling into what looked like a golden fire Max was screaming for his life hoping that someone would rescue him in time but unfortunately he fell.

He did not die nor have any scratches on him he was completely unharmed, but he was lying on the grass in the park, he stood up and saw Ruby in front of him so Max stood up thinking it was all a dream and took Ruby home.



The End