George the Greytown Wizard

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One day Rhiannon had a good look at her drawing in the early morning light.“Mum!” she called out, “thereʼs some colour in my drawing! Come and havea look.” Her mother peered at the drawing through half closed eyes and saidsadly, “I canʼt see any colour. I think you have been looking at it for too long.”But when Rhiannon showed the drawing to other people, several thought theycould see traces of colour in amongst the greys. Then one of the neighbourscame to the house and said, “I donʼt know if its my imagination, but I couldswear I could see a kind of green in the grass in my garden.”She thought for a while and added, “But its been so long since Iʼve seencolours, Iʼve forgotten what they look like.”But for the first time in many years there was a feeling of hope in Wannabe.Every time Rhiannon spent time at her drawings, people reported that theycould see traces of colour in amongst the greys.One morning Rhiannon was bent over her drawing, concentrating with allher energy. Suddenly the colours of the rainbow lit up the town for the firsttime since it had turned grey so many years earlier. But as she grew tiredand slowed in her work, the colours faded. When she went to sleep at night,the colours disappeared again, only to reappear the next morning when shewent back to her drawing.A small child was watching Rhiannon drawing at the kitchen table early onemorning. For the first time in her life she saw colour, that which had appearedin Rhiannonʼs drawings. She understood what this meant. She raced homeand told her parents all about it. People realised that there was a connectionbetween Rhiannonʼs drawings and the appearance and disappearance ofcolour in the town.Many flocked to Rhiannonʼs little house. They trembled in excitement as theyexplained to Rhiannonʼs parents that her drawings were bringing the colourback into their lives.“Please, please let her draw all the time,” they begged Rhiannonʼs mother.“But if she draws all the time she will soon become worn out with so much work,even if she enjoyed it,” Rhiannonʼs mother protested. But the townspeoplewere very insistent. So Rhiannon, who wanted to please everybody, continuedpainting the town and everything in it, no matter how tiring she found it to be.35
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Page 3 and 4: George, the grey town wizardwritten
Page 5 and 6: CONTENTSsection one — the teasing
Page 7 and 8: the teasingGeorge was a wizard with
Page 9 and 10: about is making money. None of you
Page 11 and 12: The fog drifted over the owls keepi
Page 13 and 14: The Town Clerk and his wife hurried
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Page 17 and 18: the grey world through their lace c
Page 19 and 20: down and other simple spells like t
Page 21 and 22: Still George persisted. The flame o
Page 23 and 24: all, a rather big, heavy boy. He ne
Page 25 and 26: the churchA couple of months had pa
Page 27 and 28: Every Sunday the preachers blamed t
Page 29 and 30: Travellers took the long way around
Page 31 and 32: Her father said sadly, “I really
Page 33: into the next week. Then the school
Page 37 and 38: flashes of colourGeorge had noticed
Page 39 and 40: Next he put all his notes up on the
Page 41 and 42: Her father replied in a soothing to
Page 43 and 44: wizard. George thought to himself,
Page 45 and 46: He rubbed the ointment and nothing
Page 47 and 48: possible. You and your town would h
Page 49 and 50: Mayor would call on him to put it r
Page 51 and 52: CAROLINE AMBRUSI was born in 1938 i

George the Greytown Wizard

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