Chapter One Summer Holidays Wake up wake up Debbie Billy yells with delight as he runs into my bedroom Yippee yippee we don’t have school today it’s the holidays Yippee is Billy’s favourite word and I m getting sick of hearing it Go away Billy it’s still dark out side I want to sleep some more Billy gets up so early on the holidays When I wake up next the sun is warm on my face and this makes me smile I quickly jump out of bed to
look outside The sun is shining and the sky is blue There is just one white fluffy cloud floating towards the purple hills in the distance It is a perfect day to start the summer holidays These holidays are going to be the best ever because my grandfather Dada Keen is coming to visit us I love it when Dada Keen visits us because he knows lots of special places in the bush and sometimes he takes me to see them As I run to join my mum and Billy for breakfast I think I love living in the bush and I love the summer holi days
Chapter Two Dada Keen’s Letter Debbie can you and Billy go and see if the mail has arrived Mum asks We are hoping to get a letter from our grandfather letting us know when he will arrive Please I silently pray let there be a letter from Dada Keen Yippee yippee yells Billy We’ve got the letter Billy runs all the way back to the house to give it to Mum I can come to visit you for two
weeks I arrive on next Friday morn ing’s train from Perth Dada Keen writes in his letter Tell Debbie and Billy I have won some money in Lotto so the prize for the next tyre race will be five dollars Billy and I are so excited We both yell as we run outside to get our tyres to practise I’m going to win I’m going to win No you’re not I am
