Eleanor and Friends - Concept and Design
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The concept comes from an idea to provide yet one more stepping tool to help children understand the importance of love. Both to learn how to give it and to learn how to know it and accept it in return. The book is based on a mingling of young animal characters that meet each other under circumstances of duress. Together they help each other out of those situations all around helping a Mediterranean Flamingo, Eleanor to get back home.
The journey begins with the birth of Eleanor in South-Western France in Spring. She takes her first migration with her mother to Morocco where they are separated and Eleanor is captured and placed onto a transport barge headed for New Zealand.
Eleanor meets many characters along the way starting with the Silky Chickens. They meet her on the barge in Shanghai when they board. She forms a bond with them and they judge her character to be good and agree to set her free once they reach Auckland, New Zealand. They agree to help her get back home once their business is done there as they must return to the Silky Road.
Seeking out ways to get back home at the dock they come across an entanglement that involves 2 Kiwi's, Moki and his daughter Mona. Their boat is being seized. They agree with the Silky Chickens to take them all to Australia if they can get their boat back. They do so and arrive in Melbourne, Victoria.
At the transport yard, they are led to a group of rough-tumbling Wombats who are preparing for their journey but their cargo, needed for Perth in Western Australia, is being held up and stolen by a group of angry crocodiles led by Henry the Krank. They all agree to help retrieve that cargo and would be granted safe passage on the Great Indian Pacific.
They successfully get their cargo back and loaded onto the back of the Indian Pacific. Being yelled at by the thwarted Henry the Krank who threatens to see them in a while.
Bing that the sea is what the Kiwi's desire most they part ways here. Then the train fires up and off they go to Perth, Eleanor, the Silky Chickens, and the Combat Wombats.
Once they reach Perth the Wombats take the group to some friends of theirs the Flying Quakkas and their plane hanger. Growling is heard and there the Kranks trying to take the two planes owned by Amelia and Bendi. The Kranks are yelling about their missing cargo. While in the scuffling the Combat Wombats form a plan to distract the Krank. With the Silky Chickens in one plane and Eleanor in another, they start the planes rolling. Hearing the engines start the Quakkas see they can make for them as the Wombats are keeping the Kramk and Deviants at bay.
The Silky Chickens wave them up and Amelia jumps into the front seat of one and Bindi into the other plane. They detach from land and start gaining altitude. Amelia asks who they are and Eleanor says they are friends of Taz and the Combat Wombats. Circling back to check on their friends they see the Kranks all tied up and the Wombats standing on top of them waving good-bye.
With the sun setting Amelia asks where they need to go, and the Silky Chickens yell "NORTH, NORTH". Eleanor softly replies, "Home."
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