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Written by L i n d s e y B r o
Written by L i n d s e y B r o
Illustrated by B r e e P o o r t
Illustrated by B r e e P o o r t
Not Notmany many people people know know that that
Dedicated to to Dedicated
All Adventurers
A
ADVENTURE begins begins with with you. you.
you can... you can...
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The tallest The tallest mountain, mountain,
CLIMB the HIGHEST HIGHEST the Tree, Tree,
Dig The deepest ocean
EYE
That big ol’ moon, spinning in slow motion
But the scary thing about
ADVENTURES that you never do quite know...
oh,
Forests What do they hold?
In those
GRAVES SO DARK AND DEEP.
Do those
Hills HOLD HIDDEN TREASURE? ARE THEIR
Insides made of ivory?
And
so wild you cannot sleep!
OH But,
ADVENTURERS, WE DON’T NEED TO KNOW!
WE CAN DREAM AND PLAY PRETEND BECAUSE IN A WORLD SO BIG AND NEAT, LETS JUST BE A PLANET, SPINNING AROUND THE SUN.
OH, DEAR
ADVENTURERS,
WE HAVE SO MUCH WE NEED TO DO!
There are
Kites to fly,
LIONS to love.
Moons To dream ON.
And
Nights for KNIGHTS TO WANDER THROUGH.
BUT MY DEAR adventureR, I HAVE TO WARN YOU THAT... YOUR BIGGEST adventurE’S NOT SO VERY SIMPLE. YOU’LL NEVER KNOW IT FROM THE BACK,
NO, YOU’LL HAVE TO WALK RIGHT UP TO THE VERY CRACK...
to the very Precipice... YOU’LL CLOSE YOUR eyes and howl -
THAT’S WHERE YOU’LL
Pitch
Your tent and declare:
I
quit being normal
Why? Why no one normal ever...
RACED DOWN A RUSHING RIVER
or
SNUCK
up on a sleeping snake
They never asked a
TURTLE TEA to have
(JUST TO hear how turtles talk)
no, I doubt “normal” could
UNTIe
ten thousand knots
Oh thank goodness for adventure! because, with adventure, there’s not much i’d rather do than find a secret,
just me and you.
SO would you wanna...
FIND A
View in Oregon?
AND
WALK
Across a fallen log?
We can be those GREAT EXPLORERS.
The ones who find a
zenith ZEPPELIN. and a
The
ZeroeS
and The
ZooS.
oh, we can be those GREAT explorers, with minds that have no borders.
We can go to far off lands, and taste all kinds of wild things,
Because brains are springs that make us kings and give us great big wings.