Burg Rheinfels (Fortress Rhine Boulder) is the inspiration for the Saffron Kingdom. ©Laurel Decher, 2021.
How's your sense of direction?
The second Seven Kingdoms Fairy Tale, LOST WITH LEEKS, is all about getting–you guessed it–lost. Prince Nero has a magically magnetic personality. He’s charming, but he wrecks compasses and maps.
Expert at getting lost
I don’t know about charming, but I’m an expert at getting lost. One of the worst times as a child was in a huge campground.
I found the shower building. No problem.
But when I came out again, nothing looked familiar.
Hundreds of tents and campers stretched out in all directions. The sunset showed me West, but that didn’t help me. I didn’t know where I’d come from.
I also didn’t speak any French. By filling my hands with water from the wash room sink, I tried to mime that our tent was near the lake. *blushes* Needless to say, that didn’t work.
The colors of the tents all faded with the light. Finally, I walked out from each side of the building. In straight lines, so I couldn’t get MORE lost.
Eventually, I tripped over our tent lines and recognized where I was.
The arctic explorer returns to base camp. I could have died out there!
*cue Star Wars theme*
Your family gets used to it
My family was unfazed.
Okay, it was July. The danger of hypothermia was low.
How about you and yours? Do you have a story about getting lost? What helped you get “found” again? What are your favorite tips to keep your kids from “staying lost”?
You might enjoy Prince Nero's adventures . . .
You might enjoy Prince Nero’s adventures in LOST WITH LEEKS.
Argh! Twelve-year-old Crown Prince Nero is lost again.
How will he ever lead the Blackfly Kingdom?
His fairy godfather gave him a magnetic personality to make him charming.
Only now he’s a trouble-magnet–for compasses, maps and magical creatures.
Worse, his royal mom has kidnapped St. Nicholas. Nero’s got to map out a rescue right away!
For ages 9 to 12
