My Farm Adventure Personalized Book

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Title: My Farm Adventure Personalized Book
Description: Your child is a famous detective hired by the farm animals to help locate the missing rooster.
Manufacturer: Create-A-Book
Seller: MadLuck Books Personalized Books

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• Wipe-clean hard cover
• Personalized dedication
• Professionally printed
• Quality craftmanship
• Full-color illustrations throughout

Full text of book with sample illustration pages:

In this book, there are two full color pages followed by two pages of text. With every turn of the page you have a full color picture on one side and a page with text on the other.

Your personalized data replaces words in red.
But will NOT be in red in the book.

Title Page

Tommy's
Adventure
On The Farm


Pages 1 & 2 - illustration pages
Page 3
This book was created
especially for

Thomas David Smith
at the age of 6

With Love From
Mommy
April 23, 1996

Page 4

"Rooster is up to his old tricks again," sighed Harriet Holstein. "If we don't find him soon, it will be one of those days again. By the way, who's that boy standing over there?"
Dasher Hound, who knew absolutely everything about what happened on the farm, looked over and saw a young boy walking around the barn.
"If my eyes don't deceive me," said Dasher excitedly, "I think it's Tommy Smith, that famous child detective. I've heard that he has solved more mysteries in 6 years than Sherlock Holmes solved in his lifetime. This could be our lucky day."

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Pages 5 & 6 - illustration pages

Page 7

"Lucky day!" sighed Harriet Holstein again. "You must be kidding. Do you remember the last time Rooster disappeared? Why, Penny Pig was so angry about missing her breakfast that she didn't speak to Rooster for 3 days, and you know how much Penny Pig likes to talk!"
"Hey, here comes Tommy," said Dasher. "He looks cool."

Page 8

The animals turned to greet Tommy. "Welcome to our farm," said Dasher. "I've heard that you are one of the best detectives in the whole world. I have a nose for these things, you know."
"You have a nose for everything," kidded Penny. "In fact, there's enough nose on you to share with everyone on the farm."
Dasher didn't mind making jokes about his own nose. However, he did mind it when others made jokes at his expense.
"Silence!" he shouted at Penny. "At least I have a nose."

Pages 9 & 10 - illustration pages

Page 11

Dasher turned back to Tommy. "We have a major problem here," he explained. "You see, Rooster has disappeared and when that happens the farm, well, the farm kind of falls apart. Rooster knows this and he likes to hide and make everyone look for him. But no one has ever found him - he's just too clever. Perhaps a world famous detective, such as yourself, could find him."

Page 12

Tommy looked at the worried faces of Dasher, Penny and Harriet. "But why don't you just wait for Rooster to come out of his hiding place?" he asked, puzzled.
"And you call yourself a detective!" wailed Charlene Chicken who had just arrived to join the conversation. "We can't wait. Don't you know what happens when Rooster isn't here?"
Tommy didn't know. But that didn't matter. "I'd love to help," said Tommy happily. "And so will Lisa, Karen and Mike."
"If only I knew why this is so important," he whispered to himself.

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Pages 13 & 14 - illustration pages

Page 15

Tommy asked Dasher to gather the farm animals for an important meeting. Everyone was soon in attendance. There was Charlene Chicken, Penny Pig, Harriet Holstein, Rhonda Rabbit, Cheshire Charlie, Hoot Owl and Clydesdale.
Dasher didn't waste any time getting to the point. "Rooster is hiding," he said.

Page 16

"Not again!" shrieked Cheshire Charlie.
"Why us!" cried Rhonda Rabbit.
The other animals moaned and whined.
"No problem," said Hoot Owl. "I'll do the job." This only made everyone moan and whine louder.
Dasher finally shouted to get everyone's attention. "We are going to find Rooster," he said. "Right here, right now, right on this farm, is Tommy Smith, the world famous detective. He has come here from Warrenton and has promised to find Rooster."
"No I didn't," protested Tommy to no avail. "I said I'd try to find Rooster."
No one heard him. All the animals were cheering wildly. The pressure was on Tommy.

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Pages 17 & 18 - illustration pages


Page 19

Detective Tommy put on his thinking cap. Well, it wasn't really a thinking cap, just his favorite old hat, but he always had better ideas when he wore it. More importantly, he looked awesome in it.
Tommy turned slowly to Lisa, Karen and Mike. "I have a plan," he said. "Let's go to the pond."

Page 20

Four ducks were swimming in the pond. Tommy looked at them very, very closely. Three ducks were good swimmers, while one seemed to be struggling to stay afloat.
"Do you know where I can find Rooster?" he asked.
"It's not possible to find Rooster," the duck replied. "No one ever has, and no one ever will find him. He's too clever."
Tommy's eyebrows twitched. This always happened when he discovered a clue.

Pages 21 & 22 - illustration pages

Page 23

Next they walked to a field where some crows were hurriedly eating their dinner, while Scarecrow took one of his frequent naps.
"Can I ask you crows a question?" began Tommy. "Does anyone know where Rooster is?"
"Everything is not always as it seems," said one crow.
Just then Scarecrow opened his eyes. All the crows flew away, except the one who had talked to Tommy. He ran away.
Tommy's eyebrows twitched.

Page 24

Then Tommy went with Lisa, Karen and Mike to visit the pig pen. Penny Pig was glad to see them and started talking excitedly. Tommy scanned the pen and turned his attention to a rather thin looking pig.
"Do you know where I can find Rooster?" he asked.
"No one on this farm knows where Rooster is," the pig answered. "But I'll give you a clue. Rooster is never far from the action."

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Pages 25 & 26 - illustration pages

Page 27

The next stop was the barn where all the cows were settling down for the night. Tommy walked around the stalls, carefully watching where he stepped. He turned to a cow standing close to Harriet Holstein and asked, "Why is everyone so upset about Rooster not being here?"
"That would be obvious," the cow replied, "if you lived on a farm. Why, without Rooster, these poor cows, whoops, I mean, us poor cows would have too long a night's sleep, our udders would fill up with milk, and we would be very uncomfortable."
Tommy's eyebrows twitched again.

Page 28

"Where are we going next?" asked Lisa, Karen and Mike.
"To visit the horses," replied Tommy, "and watch where you step when we get there." Tommy did not know everything about life on a farm, but he did know about watching his step around cows and horses.

Pages 29 & 30 - illustration pages

Page 31

The horses seemed restless. Clydesdale was nervously pacing back and forth, his big hooves making large footprints in the dirt. Another horse was pecking corn off the ground. Tommy's eyebrows twitched rapidly.
The horse, who was eating corn, suddenly realized that Tommy was watching. Quickly he turned his attention to a pile of hay.
Tommy turned to Dasher. "Please ask the other animals to meet me in front of the barn, and make sure the sheep are there."
"I will," replied Dasher, "if they are not in the baa-throom." Dasher laughed at his own joke as he went out to gather the animals.

Page 32

All the animals gathered in front of the barn, but Tommy was nowhere to be seen. The sheep were very calm, except for one, who kept looking nervously back and forth.
Suddenly, one of the sheep stood up on two legs. "This is unusual," said Clydesdale in a slow drawl. "Sheep can't stand on two legs."
He was right. It was really Tommy in disguise. "Guess what," he said. "Someone else is also in disguise." He pulled a mask off a startled Rooster. He had been caught!

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Pages 33 & 34 - illustration pages

Page 35

"How did you solve the case?" asked a disappointed Rooster. "No one has ever done that before."
"It was easy," replied Tommy. "You had trouble swimming like a duck, you didn't fly away like the other crows, you were too thin to be a pig, and horses don't peck corn. Case closed."
"Rooster is found!" shouted the farm animals. "Now he will wake us up tomorrow. He has the most important job on the farm."
Detective Tommy had saved the farm. He had also discovered why Rooster was so important.

Page 36

The next morning at 5:37 a.m. Rooster woke up. Several minutes later, everyone else was awake thanks to a rather vigorous cock-a-doodle-doo.
Owl closed his eyes and went to sleep. "I could have done that," he said. "No one gives a hoot about my feelings."

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