Getting Lost Can Be Good

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Virginia Kay White

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Tulip's Disappearing Act

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What would you do if you could disappear? Tulip, a friendly troll seeking an adventure and still working on her disappearing act, is mostly invisible when she is discovered under a bridge by Bossy, a friendly cat who leads Tulip on a series of adventures, beginning in the chicken coop with an unwanted visitor and then to the Maywood Celebration where her singing helps her find Swede, her Troll Country friend who didn’t know she had mostly disappeared in his rucksack.

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When my first Siamese cat gave birth to six kittens on my bed, my appreciation for differences and the love of cats started. Cats and students have been a big part of my life for fifty years. Creative Writing was among the high school English courses I taught over my forty years in the classroom. I always wrote with my students. It provided me with knowledge of the assignment and led me down my own path of discovery. After retirement I was able to follow my passion of writing for young readers. I enjoy reading my books in elementary school classrooms and talking to my audience. They always provide me with amazing ideas and I have been able to use some of them to create new stories. I live in Colorado with my husband and one senior cat. I also enjoy being an active grandmother.

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Getting Lost Can Be Good

You can sometimes get lost and find out it is a good thing. I gave birth to Tulip after our trip to Norway, writing with my Creative Writing students, and remembering my fondness for The Three Billy Goats Gruff. I wanted Tulip to be a friendly troll who not only looks different than the usual trolls, but is working on some typical troll traits like young readers are working on "growing up" traits. You try things out and find out sometimes you are successful and sometimes you are not quite there.

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Tulip's Disappearing Act

“Why did I think it was a good idea to practice invisibility?” Tulip asked herself as she looked at her new surroundings. The bridge and over-hanging tree branches seemed cave-like, but not quite like home.

“I thought it would be fun to get into Swede’s rucksack. Have a new adventure. Explore something new and exciting,” she said out loud. “But, exploring in the rucksack was not fun. I hoped to find other trolls like me. But no. Now I’m under this bridge after Swede opened his rucksack. I escaped and Swede took off to who knows where. I’m left alone. I thought I heard him say something about finding Uncle Thor. Trolls like woody areas. I don’t see any woods. Where did he go?”
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