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- Herausgeber: Nosy Crow
- Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
- Serie: Rescue Princesses
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
Friendship, animals and secret royal adventures! With over one million Rescue Princesses titles sold, this action-packed series is the perfect combination of good friends, beautiful dresses, ninja moves and baby animals! When Princess Lily and her friends find an abandoned baby kangaroo, they must look after the tiny joey and work out who is ruining the palace gardens at night. To solve this mystery the princesses will need a magic jewel, ninja skills and the special power that comes from true friendship! From Paula Harrison, author of the Kitty and the Moonlight Rescue series. With short chapters and beautifully illustrated throughout, the Rescue Princesses series is perfect for readers aged seven and up. Related activity sheets are available on the Nosy Crow website. Check out the other titles in this series: The Secret Promise, The Wishing Pearl, The Moonlight Mystery and many more!
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Lily lifted Fudge out of the bag and sat down with the joey on her lap. The little kangaroo wriggled more than ever! Lily put the baby kangaroo on the floor and Fudge did a few wobbly jumps across the room…
For everyone at the Kangaroo Sanctuary in Alice Springs
Chapter One
The Pony-Roo
Princess Lily slipped down the stairs like a ninja. She missed out the creaky step near the bottom and reached the palace hallway without making a sound. Tucking her blonde hair behind her ears, she stopped to listen. Her mum, Queen Caroline, was talking to Lady Hamilton in the parlour. Lily tiptoed towards the front door and silently put on her shoes.
CRASH! She stumbled into a coat stand, knocking it to the floor.
Queen Caroline appeared in the doorway, smiling. “Are you all right, Lily? If you’re playing outside make sure you’re back for lunch, won’t you?”
“I will!” Lily smiled back, but her shoulders sank as she crossed the palace garden. She’d tried and tried to get better at ninja moves. Today she’d crept halfway round the palace without anyone spotting her. But as soon as she thought she was improving, she knocked something over or tripped and fell down. The moves were such an important part of being a Rescue Princess – so she had to keep trying! Her new friends Scarlett and Zina would be here later and she wanted to show them how much she’d practised.
The sun came out from behind a big cloud, shining down on Saronga Palace with its long row of golden turrets. Lily cheered up as she thought about seeing her friends again. The three princesses had met two months ago at Scarlett’s birthday party. Together they had rescued a baby otter and stopped a thief from stealing lots of precious jewels.
Scarlett had told the other girls about her cousin who, along with some friends, had made a secret promise to always save animals in danger. They called themselves the Rescue Princesses and they used teamwork and ninja moves, and they had magic jewels to help them. After hearing about it, Lily had decided that they should become Rescue Princesses straightaway!
A few weeks later, Scarlett had sent Lily and Zina magic rings that she’d made with her jewel-making tools. Each one was a beautiful heart shape and when the girls pressed the jewels they could speak to each other secretly. Scarlett’s jewel was a shining red ruby and Zina’s was a sparkling diamond. Lily’s jewel was a deep-blue sapphire and she loved hers best of all!
Lily smiled. She was so glad her mum had invited the other girls to stay. She pressed the sapphire on her ring and waited for the jewel to light up. “Is anyone there?” she whispered. “Can you hear me?”
“Yes, we’re here.” Scarlett’s voice floated out of the jewel. “We’re on our way to your palace right now.”
“Hooray – you’re early!” Lily hopped up and down. “I’ll see you soon.”
“Bye, Lily! See you soon!” Zina and Scarlett called back, and then the jewel went dark again.
Lily ran all the way to the royal stables, excitement bubbling inside her. Ten golden wattle trees covered with bright-yellow flowers lined the path and a row of royal bluebells nodded in the breeze. Saronga Palace had one of the finest gardens in the whole of Estaland. Lily really hoped her new friends would like it.
Skipping into the stables, Lily stopped beside her favourite pony’s stall. “Hello, Sandy! How are you?” A pony with a golden coat came over and let Lily stroke her nose. “Good girl! Would you like a sugar lump?”
As the pony nibbled the sugar, Lily spotted another animal in the next-door stall and leaned over to get a better look. The stall next to Sandy’s was usually empty. She was surprised to see a small reddish-brown kangaroo lying against a bale of hay.
“Hello! What are you doing in there?” said Lily, laughing.
“That’s Hoppley.” Matt, the stablehand, came in carrying a saddle. “I’ve been taking care of him ever since he got thrown from his mother’s pouch when he was a very young joey. He’s nearly big enough to look after himself now and this is the first time I’ve let him out to explore the palace garden.”
“Hi, Hoppley! You look pretty comfortable there.” Lily smiled. She was used to seeing kangaroos in the fields and woods near the palace. Sometimes they even hopped up the palace drive and into the garden, but she’d never seen one in the stables before.
Hoppley’s ears twitched and he hopped up and down the stall.
“I think he’s in that stall because he’s decided he’s a pony!” said Matt.
“If he’s a kangaroo AND a pony that makes him a pony-roo!” said Lily. “How did you know what to do when he was left behind by his mother?”
Matt sat down on a bale of hay. “I knew he should stay in a pouch so I stitched a sack into the right shape and put him inside. Since then I’ve been feeding him special milk from a baby’s bottle but I don’t think he needs it any more.”
Lily nodded. She wished the kangaroo still needed the milk. She would’ve loved to have fed him.
“I’ll be able help more joeys once I open my kangaroo sanctuary,” added Matt.
Lily nodded. She’d talked to Matt about his plans for the sanctuary lots of times. Matt was such an expert on kangaroos!
The little kangaroo jumped up and sniffed at the stable door. “Here you go, Hoppley.” Lily opened the door wider and the little kangaroo bounded out just as a car rolled up the palace drive.
“Those must be your visitors, Princess Lily,” said Matt. “I’ll get the suitcases.”
“Thank you, Matt.” Lily ran forward, nearly slipping on the gravel.
The car rolled into the yard with two girls waving madly inside. Scarlett was the first to jump out, her black curls bouncing on her shoulders. Then Zina climbed out, smiling shyly.
“We’re here at last!” Scarlett noticed Hoppley bouncing out of the stable yard. “You didn’t tell us you had a pet kangaroo, Lily.”
“I don’t!” said Lily, laughing. “That’s Hoppley. Matt looked after him when he was little but now he’s bigger and ready to hop around on his own.”
Matt, who was taking the suitcases out of the car boot, smiled at the girls and gave a little bow.
“You have really interesting animals here,” said Zina. “And it’s so warm too.”
“You’ll probably see lots of kangaroos while you’re staying with me,” Lily told them. “They’re a very common animal in our kingdom.”
“I wish I could hop like that!” Scarlett tried to copy Hoppley’s jumps.
Soon the princesses were all leaping around like kangaroos until they began giggling too much to jump any more.
“Matt’s going to start up a sanctuary for kangaroos that need looking after,” said Lily.
Matt nodded. “Although it could be a few months before the sanctuary opens, Your Highness. I’d love to start sooner but I don’t have enough money yet.”
Lily bit her lip. “But in the meantime there could be lots of baby kangaroos that need help.”
“Maybe we could raise some money for the sanctuary,” said Zina.
“We could do a sponsored jump!” said Scarlett excitedly.
“Or we could bake lots of cakes and set up a cake stall at the palace gates.” Lily’s eyes lit up. “We’d have to ask my mum but I bet she’d say yes!”
“I love making cakes!” said Scarlett, and Zina nodded.
“It’s very kind of you all but you don’t have to go to a lot of bother,” began Matt.
“We don’t mind!” said Lily. She looked round at the other girls. Zina was smiling and Scarlett gave a wink. She knew what they were thinking. Raising money for a kangaroo sanctuary was just the kind of thing the Rescue Princesses would love to do!
