The Little Dolphin Gregory, Anna, and the Nepomuk-Trick E-Book

Sonja Tolevski

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

What if we learned already as children, that we feel much better about ourselves if we pay attention to our thoughts? How could we change the world and what we think about ourselves and the world? The little dolphin Gregory meets Anna, a sad girl, who is certain that no one at her new school likes her. Together, they discover how to change their world as well as their self-confidence. They use the Nepomuk-Trick, and the change begins... ...He smiled at Anna, at her delicate, small face. Doing so, he noticed that her face lit up until she almost glowed. "Thank you for saying that!" she said, "But the other kids haven't realized it yet. Or they just think I'm stupid." Gregory tried to find the right words, "I can't believe that everyone thinks you're stupid. Where I come from, unless you grew up in a school of fish, there is no way that everyone around you has the same opinion. That's really only possible in a school of fish..."

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Sonja Tolevski

The Little Dolphin Gregory, Anna, and the Nepomuk-Trick

A feel-better book for small and large people

For Lauren & SophieBookRix GmbH & Co. KG80331 Munich

The Little Dolphin Gregory, Anna, and the Nepomuk-Trick

The wide open ocean, somewhere in the south, is the home of little dolphin Gregory. He is still pretty small, so small that he is rarely allowed to leave his mother. His mother is an amazingly smart dolphin-lady, who knows her way around the ocean very well, and who is able to answer many of his many questions.

Little dolphin Gregory loves to swim to a bay, and watch the humans bathe. He finds humans very interesting. Most times they wear such fun, colorful trunks. Small humans, they call themselves children, often even have cute, cheerful plastic-rings around their bellies. Especially remarkable, he thinks, is the way humans move in the water. They make circles with their arms, and they move their legs like frogs. They call it swimming. He finds it very strange, but these movements actually keep the humans with their heads above water, well, at least most of the time.

Sometimes he swam too close to the edge of the water, and then the humans spotted him and shouted, "Ooh! Look, a dolphin!" or "Yes, that's a dolphin!" Then he was torn between pride and fear. Of course he's a dolphin! They were right about that! He liked that they recognized him right away. On the other hand, his mother always said, "Stay away from humans. You never know whether they're good or bad humans. What if they catch you and take you away?" This impressed him over and over, but, just like it was the case with small humans, only for a short time. Then, once again, he swam very close to the beach and found it extremely exciting. Every once in a while he loved pretending that he was a shark. He dashed towards a group of swimmers and tried hard to only show a little bitty piece of his dorsal fin. That way, he looked dangerous; at least he imagined it to be a dangerous sight. In those moments, he felt huge. The swimmers were most times terrified and screamed, "Watch out, a shark! A shark!" Gregory felt sorry, then, because all he wanted was to look big and scary, but he didn't want to frighten the humans. He enjoyed humans a lot. Especially the small humans, they were very amusing and funny to him. He liked them extremely well. When he was in a good mood, and children were nearby, he zigzagged through the water and jumped high into the air, until the kids laughed with joy and cheered. Yes, he thought humans were great, but strange as well. He would have loved to know more about them, or get to know them better, so he could learn more about them. But then he remembered his mother's voice, "Gregory, stay away from humans! They are not familiar with us marine animals. Some are dangerous, some are mean. Please don't eat anything they throw in the water! It can make us sick!"

"Yes, Mom, I know!" was Gregory's response, but deep inside he knew that he would quickly forget the warning.

The other marine animals had told him, that dolphins were the smartest and most intelligent animals in the ocean. His mother had already mentioned something like this, but he hadn't believed her.

Then there was his friend Tobi. Tobi is also a dolphin, but a little bit older and bigger than Gregory. Tobi knew a lot, as well. He just knew the ropes! He knew the other fish, most of them even by name. He knew the area very well, and had already shown Gregory four secret hiding places. Gregory would have never found those hiding places, had it not been for Tobi, no, he wouldn't even have known what hiding places are good for! Now, among other things, he knew the places by the cliffs and the small cave at another part of the seashore. It was always very exciting to go discover places with Tobi. Tobi is also a great storyteller. For hours, he could listen to Tobi and his wild adventures. It was wonderful to have such a brave, smart, and fearless friend. He wished he was a little bit older, because then he would have been able to swim with Tobi across the ocean each and every day, or even for days. What fun that would be! But unfortunately he was still too small for that. "Too small, too small!" he muttered. "There's always someone older saying, 'You're still too little for that! You better not do that!' How am I ever going to dare to swim any further?"

"Gregory, what are you saying?" asked Tobi, who was swimming beside him. "Oh!" Gregory sighed, "You know, sometimes it's hard, very hard, to be so small. Of course, everyone says that I'm going to automatically get older and bigger, but no one has ever really explained to me how much longer this will take." Gregory made a sad face. He would love to experience wild adventures, meet humans, or swim very closely alongside ships.

"Well, I've heard the exact same words before! They constantly told me the same thing and you know, the first times I swam further out, I was really scared. Yes, I was scared that something bad was about to happen. I expected it. After all, the big dolphins had always told me how dangerous everything in the ocean is.

And you know what? Nothing ever happened. Nothing at all! I was almost disappointed. Well, to be honest, I was actually pretty glad that they weren't right." Gregory listened to every word his big friend said, and slowly, his face lit up. If Tobi said this, there had to be some truth to it.

Maybe he should be more attentive in the future, when following his mother through the ocean. He would possibly see many new things he could ask his mother about. His Mom was really great about answering his questions. So far, he had not asked a single question that she was unable to answer.

A lot of times it was actually the other way round. Gregory remembered a lot of excursions with his mother and saying, “Mom, I can't stand listening to you anymore! I don't even know why I have to know all this. It's so exhausting. And we just wanted to have fun!”

His mother replied, ”My little one, the more you know, the smarter you'll be. Mainly, the more you know, the less can startle or frighten you. That's why I'm trying to show and explain to you as many things in the ocean as possible.” Of course, this he understood.

While his mood got better and better, he noticed that Tobi had swum off. Apparently, he had gotten distracted by a fish, and had followed it. Typical Tobi! Whenever he was around, he was an amazing friend, and Gregory could discuss anything with him. At the same time, though, he could very easily get excited about other things, and become restless.

Gregory was alone now, and he wasn't really sure where he should swim to. He would have loved to chat some more with Tobi, but it looked like he had to postpone this to their next meeting. He listened. No, his mother hadn't called him yet. He hadn't heard a whistle or his name being called, which meant that he still had time. He didn't have to hurry back to her yet. Surely, she was busy doing something, and he wanted to take advantage of this and go on a little excursion.