The Adventures of Benny Bell
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Benny Bell has by most accounts
always been a young man with a vivid imagination. His parents tell stories of
his unusual habit of talking to an imaginary friend. Everyone thought that he
would grow out of talking to his imaginary friend as he got older. Benny’s
unusual habit started when he was only about five years old. It started one day
when he had gone fishing with his friend Guy Messer.
The story goes that Benny, and
his young friend went fishing with Guy’s father. They didn’t call him Slim
because he was fat which people some time do. He was what most folks would
nickname Skinny Messer instead of Slim.
Mr. Messer had a favorite area on
the small river that ran by the town where they lived. Mr. Messer and the boys
went Sunday school and Church that Sunday. After a good Sunday dinner of fried
chicken, little green peas, salad and banana puddin for dessert were stuffed
full of what Slim called good vittles.
After resting a while they
decided they would like to go fishing, so Mr. Messer got all of the fishing
tackle together and away they went. When
they reached the fishing hole, Mr. Messer stopped them before they even had a
chance to wet their hooks. He had cautioned them earlier saying, "You can
wade out into the water a little way but don’t go very far out because there
are some holes in the river. If you happen to slip off into one of them, you
could very easily drown, and we sure don’t want that, now do we?” “Oh no sir. We sure don’t want anything like that to happen,
"the boys echoed. “Okay, just be very careful and stay close to the bank
of the river."
With that everyone starts to bait
their hooks before heading for the river. Guy was first into the shallow gravel
bottom area. There you could see the bottom easily. Benny could even see a few
of the minnows swimming around. The sun was glistening off the gravel bottom of
the pool making small colorful ripples in the water. The minnows seemed to be
playing games of tag with each other by darting in and out between the larger
rocks in the gravel area. Mr. Messer was busy putting a large grasshopper onto
his hook. He had just caught it a little earlier in the tall grass near the
river.
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About the Book
Parents',
are always wanting good wholesome books for their children to read. This book
is just exactly that type of book. It's about a teenage boy who finds that he has a great great grandfather who is a ghost. The way he became a ghost
is in the book. The grandfather watches over and helps Benny, the
grandson. He teaches him in all sorts of
things. He helps him win a football game. He helps him stop a robbery at a
drive in grocery. They even go deer
hunting together. No one can see of hear
his grandfather "Grey Eagle" a Cherokee Medicine Man except Benny.
Benny even takes lessons to become a medicine man. Thanksgiving and Christmas
are especially wonderful around the
About the Author
Mr. Carpenter has written three
other books before he wrote "The Adventures of Benny Bell." Mr.
Carpenter's great grandmother was a lady known only as "Bluebird"
before marrying his great grandfather Colin McKinney. He was always fascinated
with the Indian cultures and their way of life, which is why he chose to write
this story. He is also the grandfather of twenty grandchildren and 21 great
grandchildren. He loves telling stories to them. His family and friends have
always encouraged him to write a Children's book. Now he says that this is the
first in a series of
The Adventures of Benny Bell books.