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FORMER recycling worker, Michael Booth has writ-ten a book to en-courage recycling and help bond com-munities together, all with the help of Teide Bear who just hap-pens to have incred-ible super powers. He can fly at the speed of light, travel though time, talk to humans as well as animals and serves only to ‘rescue, recy-cle and reuse’ and he lives right here in Tener-ife.

In the first book Teide Bear and the Pirates is inspired by Mount Teide, obviously, is an adventure story which introduces our hero and his best friend, Lizsy the Fairy, a story that was born from a dream.Booth who lives in Not-tinghamshire said: “I went to sleep one night and I had a dream about a super hero named Teide Bear. The next morning I jotted all of it down and gradually told people about it who said it was a great and unusual idea.” It was after speak-ing to friends at a school reunion that his book idea became a reality. “Four of us got together, including an artist and a proof read-er and they helped me to get the book into practice. We’ve published the book ourselves and the illustra-tions are great.” Booth, who previously lived in Tenerife, and hopes to return soon if he can persuade his partner Lisz: “I love Tenerife and I’ve visited Mount Teide many times. It’s not promoted in any way, shape or form as it should be. It’s fantastic.” The book is about Teide Bear who goes on his first adven-

ture,” he said. “It in-

volves some ani-mals and pirates and, of course, it is set on the is-land of Tenerife. It’s modern and

I thought it was a good way to help edu-cate children about recy-

cling.”

Teide Bear, who in-cidentally speaks sev-eral languages teaches bad people to be good

people and works with the parrots, Pilot whales, dolphins and all other sea

animals around Tenerife in a family orientated, holiday based adventure story that appeals to adults and chil-dren alike. In keeping with the green

theme, the Kindle book is available from

Amazon and he even has his own website,

www. Teide-b e a r. c o m ,

so you can keep up with al his a d v e n -t u r e s . T h e b o o k ,

trans-l a t e d

into Spanish, French, Italian

and Russian is also coming out in book form very soon. A soft-toy version of Teide Bear has

also been pro-duced which will

go on sale soon.

Tenerife has a new Superhero… and his name is Teide Bearand his name is Teide Bear

The parrots were racing from the hot beach in the direction of the highest snow covered mountain on their group of islands. They were on a mission to get an urgent message to Teide Bear. It was an exhausting task flying as hard as they could to reach the top of the mountain where they hoped to find the famous bear. Higher and higher the group of birds flew. “Come on, lads.” said Henry. Henry was the leader of the parrots and the strongest flier .The flock of birds gained speed and their brightly coloured feathers stood out against the dark rock of the volcanic mountain. The birds constantly swapped positions as they proceeded on this urgent quest, eager to keep up with Henry. They were only halfway to their destina-tion when Henry could hear some of the birds grumbling amongst themselves that it was about time they had a rest. Henry directed them to a clearing which had a large rock right in the middle that would act as a plat-form from which he could speak to them. The parrots landed and rested for a few minutes while they got their breath back. Henry let a few more minutes pass before he spoke to the birds. He had taken his position on the rock to speak to his group. “Right, you lot, listen care-fully,” Henry said in a loud and clear voice. “My plan is to reach the top of this mountain quick-ly. I’ll take two volunteers with me and the rest of you can wait here for our return.” A sigh of relief came from most of the group but there were two birds that raised their wings and wanted to continue on the full journey. These were Eric, who had never been to the top of the mountain, and Philip, who was the second fastest flier in the group. The parrots had been contacted earlier by Pilot Whales that lived in the seas surrounding their islands. The whales had been swimming around that day, enjoying their adventures as they usually do, when they discovered a pirate ship travelling through their waters with a very unusual cargo aboard. It had turned out that this strange cargo needed to be rescued urgently. Eric and Philip joined Henry on the rock and all three got ready to continue on their jour-ney upward to the snow covered peak of the mountain. It still looked a very long distance away. Henry and his two companions took to the air while the rest of the group waved them off. He and his two volunteers could hear various conversations coming from the group of birds below them but one word was repeated again and again: “Pirates.” Little did the birds know that they were not alone on the mountain. It so happened that a shy mountain fairy had been hiding close

by listening to the group’s conversation. Her name was Liszy and she had been on the island for a long time, even before Teide Bear had ar-rived there. She had become a great personal friend of the Bear but because of her shyness was usually a very private person. She realised Henry and his two friends were heading to the top of the mountain. She decided to follow them but keep out of sight until she could find out exactly why they wanted to contact her good friend Teide Bear. Eventually Henry, Eric and Philip, three now very tired parrots, reached the top of the mountain. Their brightly coloured feathers stood out even more against the white snow-covered peak. Fairy got fairly close to them without being seen but close enough to hear them talk. She could make out that the birds wanted Teide Bear to help them rescue some-one or something from some nasty pirates. She remembered that Teide Bear had gone away a few days earlier but could not remem-ber exactly when he was to return. She felt that she must inform the three birds of this but needed to pluck up courage to overcome her shyness and introduce herself to them. Philip and Eric both looked at Henry, asking the same question. “How do we find the Bear?” Henry thought back to what the Pilot Whales had told him concerning Teide Bear, which was not a lot. “Well, I suppose we wait here right at the top of this mountain and Teide Bear should easily see us, especially as we have bright-coloured feathers.” “But what about when it gets dark?” the other two birds replied. “I don’t know” said Henry, “Let’s just hope the bear spots us before that.” All three birds were now silent, just sitting there thinking about what to do next, when out popped the fairy as if from nowhere. It made the three parrots jump in alarm. “You’re not Teide Bear, are you?” Henry said in a stern voice. “Oh no no no” said the fairy, hovering gently in front of them, trying to cover up the fact that she was shy. “Teide Bear’s gone away for a few days and I’m not sure when he’s due to get back.” Henry could see that the fairy was a little embarrassed by her now reddish face. Henry comfort-ed her. “It’s OK, little fairy, we’ll wait here for Teide Bear to re-turn.” He then asked the fairy her name and introduced him-self and the other parrots to her.

Chapter 1 - A Difficult Journey