Once upon a fine sunny day, young Timmy trudged his way, with a hop and a skip, off to the jungle, humming a cheerful tune, searching for fun and maybe a spoon.

Timmy toyed with tall trees and tapped tumbling rocks. 'Toot toot!, what a day!' he roared. But suddenly, he stopped...What could this be?

There, nestled in gnarly roots and giggling grass, was a dragon, small as a bumblebee, with scales shimmering like candy.

'Hello!' chirped the dragon, with a twinkle in eye. 'I'm Dapper the dragon, would you like to fly? But first, we must find my missing hat, a blue and yellow chequered flat.'

Timmy, thrilled, nodded his head, 'Yes, yes, I do and very much so!' The jungle was big, but Timmy was wise; he'd find the hat, under only sunny skies.

Up they raced through rustling leaves, chattering birds and babbling brooks, searching high and low, left and then right.

'Look, a cap!' Timmy exclaimed, holding something flat. But it was a nest for a little rat! 'Oops, not the one,' said Dapper, with a chuckle, so bright.

On they stomped, through the tangled vines and saffron blooms, until they came upon a grand old tree, where hoot-hoot-hoot went an owl counts-three.

'There it is!' said Dapper, fluttering with glee. 'My hat was on a branch, keeping cosey company with the owl's feathered knee.'

With a hop and a leap, the hat was retrieved. On Dapper's head it sat, perfectly pleased. 'Hooray, hooray!' they cheered, 'Now, up and away!'

Then up they soared, over rambling rivers and whispering woods, with the world beneath looking as tiny as Dapper once did.

Timmy giggled and felt free as a breeze, knowing adventuring with a dragon was the bee's knees!