The tales of Bennie, The lovable monster of Lake Garda. No.1. From the lake's creation to the arrival of the Romans E-Book

Thomas Brenner

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

He has lived in the clear water of Lake Garda for a very long time and has seen all sorts of things... from the creation of the lake, the arrival of human beings, and the first pile dwelling settlements, to then witness the arrival of the Romans. He's Bennie, the lovable monster of Lake Garda, the last remaining example of Benacosaurus Lacustris and he has lots of stories to tell!

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Bennie and the Creation of Lake Garda

Bennie and the Pile Dwellings of Lake Garda

Bennie and the Roman Empire

Author: Max Leonardo Prandini

Illustrator: Mattia Franceschini

Translator: Karen Anderson

Publisher & editor: Bthemonster of Thomas Brenner

www.bthemonster.com

ISBN: 9788831679657

Copyright © Bthemonster

Printed by pixarprinting.it - 2020

The Tales of Bennie

the Lovable Monster of Lake Garda

From the lake's creation

to the arrival of the Romans

Bthemonster

A story tells “that in the clear water of Lake Garda lives a monster and, actually, it's just like that. It's name is Bennie, but, unlike all the other creatures that are usually defined as “monsters”, nobody should be frightened because this example of Benacosaurus Lacustris is really very....lovable”.

From the tale “The True Story of Bennie”

Bennie and the Creation of Lake Garda

Hi everybody! Let me introduce myself: I'm a Benacosaurus Lacustris, I have a very long and important name, but my friends just call me Bennie, like the old name of Lake Garda that ancient inhabitants, such as the Celts and the Romans, used to call Benaco, which in Gaelic means “of many peninsulas”.

What am I doing here? Well, I've been living here for a very long time! Since when? Ah, good question! Up to now I have never really thought about it, but if I try maybe I'll remember.

You know, a long time ago I used to enjoy swimming in the Atlantic Ocean, between America and Africa, Greenland and the South Pole. I saw a lot of regions and faraway places. Imagine how beautiful and varied the world was: large emerged areas of land, deep oceanic trenches, rocky coasts and shores covered with forests and shrubs. Yes, I have to say I had great fun discovering how the earth was six or seven million years ago!

I also liked going into the Mediterranean Sea to see the numerous volcanic islands, the high mountains and the golden sandy beaches.

I would spend lots of time discovering not only the sea coasts, but I'd also venture up the river beds, thanks to my long and streamlined body.

Some of those rivers were hundreds of kilometres long, there the fish were much smaller and lived in freshwater.

But then, about five and a half million years ago, for reasons that I don't know, the sea level started to decrease and I realised that I couldn't get out of the Mediterranean Sea any more because the passage to the Atlantic Ocean had disappeared. I was trapped in this internal sea!

At the beginning I was frightened because the water level had lowered a lot and in many places huge areas of salt had appeared; I started to think that the sea would dry up completely but I soon happily realised that there were still plenty of places to visit and lots of other sea creatures to have fun with.

Some were different than me, but others were very similar and I spent lots of time swimming and playing not only with crocodiles and turtles, but also with small nothosaurs!

It was great spending time on the coral reefs covered with a thousand colours, hiding under the sandy seabed so my friends couldn't find me, or swimming up the alpine riverbeds until I could see the peaks of the towering mountains!