The Beginning Of Everything E-Book

I.P. Mizzaz

• Herausgeber: Next Chapter
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

10-year-old Oliver and his 7-year-old little sister are curious kids. Oliver wonders about space, stars, planets, and the existence of the universe.

One day, on their way home from school, they decide to stop by the library. It’s in that library that they encounter a magical dragon statue that comes to life and takes them on an adventure to the beginning of the universe.

Join Oliver and Amelia as they journey to the beginning of time to learn about the Big Bang and the beginning of the Solar system.

Leseprobe

THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING

THE DRAGON IN THE LIBRARY

BOOK ONE

I.P. MIZZAZ

ILLUSTRATED BYMARK MILLAR

Copyright (C) 2022 I.P. Mizzaz

Layout design and Copyright (C) 2022 by Next Chapter

Published 2022 by Next Chapter

Edited by Graham (Fading Street Services)

Cover art by CoverMint

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the author’s permission.

For my family. Thank you for your immeasurable love and support, in writing this book and in life. I owe you the world.

CONTENTS

1. The Library

2. The Dragon

3. The Big Bang

4. The Solar System

5. The Beginning

Acknowledgments

Next in the Series

About the Author

CHAPTERONE

THE LIBRARY

“Wait for me!” Amelia shouted.

She ran to catch up to her big brother.

Oliver let out a sigh. He wanted to rush home after school, but his seven-year-old sister stopped to look at everything!

“Come on, Amelia! Let’s hurry home!”

Oliver and Amelia had spent the last night building a blanket fort. They had stacked couch cushions and pillows against the back of the couch. Then they had draped a blanket over top to be the roof.

“I want to play in the fort again,” said Oliver, “We can pretend we’re time travelers exploring the history of the universe!”

Oliver was nine and three-quarters years old. He was very curious about space and science.

“Can Max be the robot?” asked Amelia.

“Of course he can!” smiled Oliver. “If he’s a good boy.”

Max was only one year old, but he was a very good puppy, all things considered.

Amelia stopped as they walked past the library. “I bet they got books on space and time travel in there!” said Amelia.

“Maybe,” said Oliver.

Amelia took off running for the library at full speed.

“Wait for me!” Oliver shouted.

He followed after Amelia, running up the sidewalk that led to the library.

Amelia froze at the front door of the library. She looked through the large glass window. “Something scary is back there,” said Amelia. She pointed to the back corner of the library.

It was hard to see with the glare of the sun, but Oliver thought he saw a pair of glowing eyes looking back at him.

Oliver was scared, but he tried to be brave for Amelia. “It’s probably nothing,” said Oliver. But he was nervous.

Amelia pushed open the front door of the library. A man with a large gray beard sat at a desk near the front of the library. He placed a bookmark in the book he was reading, then he looked up at Amelia and Oliver. “Hello there,” said the librarian.

“Um, hi!” said Amelia

“Hi,” echoed Oliver. “Do you have any books on space and Earth?”

“Space and Earth?” said the librarian, “I do, but what-”

“We saw a monster!” said Amelia, pointing towards the back of the library. “Behind that bookshelf!”

The librarian laughed, “A monster? No, that’s Mizzaz. He’s a dragon!” said the librarian.

“Miss as? A dragon?” asked Amelia. She looked nervously at Oliver. He looked back at her.

The librarian laughed again. “Mizzaz the dragon! He’s from an old book. Don’t worry little one, he’s just a statue.”

Amelia suddenly felt very shy. She looked down at her shoes.

The librarian let out another laugh. He smiled and turned to Oliver, “I do have books like that, but what are you trying to learn?”

Oliver thought about that. What did he want to learn? He wanted to know about space. He wanted to know about stars. He wanted to know about planets. He wanted to know everything! He thought of a question.

“Why is there stuff?” asked Oliver, “When there could be nothing?”

The librarian smiled. “That’s a very big question!” said the librarian. “I’m not sure we have something like that at your reading level.”

“Please!” said Oliver. “Why is there stuff when it would have been easier for there to be nothing ever?”

“What you are asking about,” said the librarian, “is the beginning of the universe. The Big Bang.”

Oliver made a confused face. “The Big Bang?” he asked.

The librarian pulled himself out of his chair and onto his feet. He walked slowly over to a nearby bookshelf. He quickly glanced over the shelves before pointing to one. “Here,” said the librarian. “There’s a lot of big words in these books though.”

“That’s okay!” said Oliver gleefully. He ran over to the bookshelf and began tracing the spines of the books with his finger as he read the titles.

“There’s a dictionary and a reading nook in the back. Next to the dragon,” said the librarian.

CHAPTERTWO

THE DRAGON

Oliver was holding a dense book. He tried reading the title, “The Big Bang Theory. On the-'' he sounded out the word “On the ex-pan-shun of the Universe.” He looked up the word expansion in the children’s dictionary. “Expansion. To make larger or wider,” said Oliver.

“So, the universe used to be smaller?” asked Amelia.

“I guess so,” said Oliver, as he rested his hand on the large dragon statue. “I wish someone would explain it to us.”

As he said that, the dragon’s head turned towards him. Oliver let out a startled cry. Amelia gasped.

“I might be able to explain it better,” said the dragon statue.