Pugly On Ice E-Book

Pamela Butchart

• Herausgeber: Nosy Crow
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Serie: Pugly
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 36

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

When Pugly straps on his blades of glory, he knows he is the best ice skater EVER! But someone wants the gold medal very badly and they will stop at nothing to get it. Can Pugly pirouette on to the podium, or will he be cut down in his furry prime? Pugly On Ice is the third in the laugh-out-loud series about a very adventurous pug, written by Pamela Butchart, winner of the Blue Peter Best Story Award and the Children's Book Award. The hilarious illustrations are by Gemma Correll and the books are perfect for early readers. Have you read about Pugly's other adventures? Pugly Bakes a Cake Pugly Solves a Crime

Leseprobe

For Anna Beattie and her daddy (who both love Pugly) P. B.

Chapter 1

Clem the cat got me ICE SKATES for my birthday, which is BRILLIANT because I love ICE and ICE SKATING and wearing my awesome BOBBLE HAT!

When I tried the ice skates on I felt something SLIMY between my toes.

It was a piece of old lettuce.

“Erm… I MIGHT have found them in a bin,” said Clem. “Happy birthday, Pugly.”

But I didn’t even CARE about the bin OR the slimy old lettuce leaf because I had a

“CLEM!” I screamed.

“I’m going to enter

It’s a big ice-skating competition and it’s coming to OUR town. I saw a flyer about it a few days ago.”

I threw myself at the FLAPPY BIN LID and went tumbling into the bin.

“WHAT are you doing?!” said Clem.

“WHAT?” I shouted. “I can’t hear you! I’m in the bin!”

It was a bit dark inside the bin (and SMELLY!) but I eventually managed to find the Pets on Ice flyer.

I leapt out of the bin to show Clem.

“STAY BACK!” she hissed. “You smell disgusting! I was going to tell you about the competition. I thought we could––”

“LOOK, Clem!” I yelled as I picked baked beans off the flyer and waved it at her. “I am SO excited because I am TOTALLY going to WIN!”

“Yes, but––” Clem started but I just ignored her and put my bobble hat and scarf on. She can sometimes be a bit rude about my PUGTASTIC IDEAS and I didn’t want her to kill my dream.

“Where are you going?” said Clem.

“To the ice rink to sign up for the competition, of course!” I said. “You can be my

PROFESSIONAL TRAINER.

Let’s go!”

Chapter 2

As soon as we arrived at the ice rink I realised that I was going to have some SERIOUS competition. There were LOADS of dogs on the ice.

“Clem,” I said. “Do you think they’re all here to practise for Pets on Ice too?”

Clem nodded. “The FIVE BEST ACTS will get to compete in this year’s competition,” she said. “You know that you can have a partner if you like?”

“A partner?” I said.

Clem started to say something else but just then everyone inside the rink GASPED! We looked up and saw a FIREBALL spinning in the air above the rink!

“RUUUUUN!” I screamed.

But Clem didn’t run. Then everyone started CHEERING and CLAPPING because the fireball WASN’T a fireball… It was a Pomeranian DOG!

The Pomeranian was called ROJO and he had the most AMAZING ice-skating costume EVER because it had FAKE FLAME BITS coming out of it and when he starting spinning he looked EXACTLY like a

I dragged Clem over to the side of the rink so I could talk to Rojo.

“WOW! You’re FAST!” I told him.

But Rojo just ignored me and STARED at Clem.

“You are a very beautiful cat,” said Rojo. “I have travelled the world and never seen a face finer than yours.”

Clem completely ignored Rojo and just walked away.

“Hey, Rojo,” I said. “Would you like to be my SKATING PARTNER?”

“Hmmm,” said Rojo. “Tell me, pug. What is your THING?”

I had no idea what Rojo meant.

“Your THING, pug. You know. Your special THING that you can do on the ice that makes the crowd go WILD! What is your ice-skating GIFT to the world?”

“Um, well, I don’t think I have a thing,” I said, looking down at my paws.

“Then I am sorry, my friend, but I have worked hard all my life to be the best spinning Pomeranian the people have ever seen. I cannot be your partner if you cannot add something special to my act. Adios.”

I didn’t know what “Adios” meant but then Rojo left so I supposed it meant goodbye.

Then Clem appeared out of NOWHERE and gave me such a fright I SNEEZED!

Clem is ALWAYS sneaking up on me like that. It’s a cat thing.

“What did HE want? Did you ask him to be your PARTNER?” she asked, sounding annoyed.

I thought Clem was being a bit weird about the partner thing but I didn’t have time to ask why because I was too busy putting my skates on.

“CLEM! I need to find out what my THING is!” I said. “Watch me from the side. I’m going to try LOADS of stuff, like

As SOON as I stepped on the ice I fell down.