Dedicated to the
‘urchins and refugees’
- the brave, beautiful
children making their
way in this world
fearlessly.
~X~
A flood raced through the valley. The water churned ferociously,
carrying with it the debris the desert had buried over many ages.
Arms of liquid sand beat at the legs and torso of a child clinging to
a solitary tree.
“Girl! You will help me! I will not allow you to let me drown here!”
A scorpion floundered in the water on a slower eddy that arced around the tree she clung onto.
The waters had miraculously
stopped churning after she had scooped the scorpion
out of the flood. The anger of the desert had passed.
The girl lowered her stick and traced her name in the sand: “Ula”
Ula, a runaway Bedouin girl, and the proud king Scorpion she meets in a flash flood, embark on a journey together through the desert and beyond.
Ula and The Scorpion
A Book by Christine M. Bark & Illustrations by Lauren Pletinckx
A Book by Christine M. Bark & Illustrations by Lauren Pletinckx