My name is Angelo Ritoridis and I live in one of the worlds sunshine capitals, Athens, Greece, where I’ve evolved mostly through gratitude and happiness, something that has made me become the person that wears his smile as a reflection of everything beautiful life happens to be all around.
Romance found in the gratitude for life has always helped me ignite my imagination, making me that generous in sharing with the closest of friends and family tales of humor and love.
My first book was inspired almost instantly upon meeting this most adorable noble froggy, who made me feel the eager obligation to offer him live where he only could have been deserved the most, in children’s hearts. A holy miracle brings him into our wonderful world, with blessed doses of spontaneous joy. At his birth pond an excited sunshine comes up with the brightest idea of becoming the host, introducing our froggy to his friends, the flowers, the mountains and rivers, the desert, the sea and sunsets, gifting him in a day beauty to last forever.
The second book was inspired by my uncle Sam, that ever so spontaneously felt comfortable to fall asleep pretty much anywhere, from doing so at a long loud dinner table, to even when standing for prolonged amounts of time! A story where poetry and metaphors become a vessel for the well-nourished soul to travel towards successful living in ways that matter, in ways for one to strive with common sense being a guide of wisdom, and considerate decency to be a loyal compass. A truly invigorating story of a man with the most well-rested plan, Sleepy Sam!
I hope you all get to enjoy reading these two highlights of my soul just as much as I did writing them. Thank you!

A holy miracle brought him into our wonderful world. One could say with eager certainty it was as simple as the culmination of nature’s best, synchronizing with an angel’s will to play its part, that brought this froggy with blessed doses of spontaneous joy to life. He was given a smile to match eternal happiness, cheeks, blue like the sea and sky, that gently sat on top of his tender little green body, representing, one would say, nature’s grandeur. His sole desire would be to nourish his appreciation for the wonders of our world by exploring all its beauty. His name, LighteroggyBlueCheeks!
An emotional journey that will empower the invaluable innocence of a child’s appreciation for everything that surrounds us. And along with the story’s values, romance and poetic metaphors, it will so importantly cultivate the child’s mind, as it will its soul, surely making this a parent-child bond to be not just a constructive experience, but a truly meaningful, and precious one. The reader of our beloved froggy, be it a seven to eleven-year-old child, a parent, or even a teenager, or any adult for that matter, can only receive joy through his story, leaving all faces, and hearts, rewarded with an intense smile, a smile to last for as long as one will feel the inevitable need to always go back and read it again.

An angel’s wings found comfort on one of the clouds. It was a perfect moment for that angel to admire a holy theatrical play taking place, with clouds as protagonists in a pantomime, and the sky guessing with giggling horizons. The angel with its emotions dedicated to the exquisiteness of the show, felt, what could have only been expected to be natural, to participate of course. The angel took out its flute and started serenading the clouds. Below, nature stood mesmerized, still. The trees, the flowers encircling a pond, a pond that little it knew, it would be surfacing a miracle that day. One of the clouds floating in the delight of the angel’s serenade was enjoying its reflection on the water’s surface. Fish and tadpoles, both were enchanted, as they were fascinated by the fact of having a cloud look at itself in the mirror?
In the reflection’s depth the end of a tadpole’s fourteen-week transformation was coming to its end.
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A froggy with holy doses of spontaneous joy came to life. Like all noble creatures, he was to be favored by our world, offering him its most generous hospitality. He was given a smile to match eternal happiness, his cheeks blue, like the sea and sky, gently sitting on top of his tender little green body, representing, one would say, nature’s grandeur. His sole desire would be to nourish his appreciation for all the wonders of our world by exploring its beauties. His name, LighteroggyBlueCheeks!
His eyes blinked in astonishment. His first contact was amongst flowers, amongst colors he would dream of. Their aromas spoke of faraway breezes and their intoxicated adventures. He took a deep breath, and could smell what he could only explain to his imagination to be magic! He rolled in laughter, blinking not more than once. ‘WowribbitWow! but how!?How could trees be rooted in the sky?’ he thought looking up. You see, during his pondelicious stay, he had come to know what roots look like, and to be seeing trees booming their intricate beauty into the blue, had become quite the fruitful admiration to nourish further his desires. He blinked, and before his eyes joy stood still, loyal to his emotions.
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The sun was weaving its brightest beams. In that inviting warmth LighteroggyBlueCheeks found himself riding one of them into the horizon. The pond, trees and flowers todle-ood, feeling like the proud owners of a rainbow tip. They knew very well that his travels were already part of their own beauty. LighteroggyBlueCheeks gallivanted into the endless, with his smile easily now tickling his eyebrows. His perspective raced deep beneath him, with all he could see, an immaculate map of fairy tales. His exploration spirit was surely shining bright. ‘Where next?!’ he sweetly croaked to the sun. The sun without hesitation, shed light on his query, introducing him to some of its closest friends.
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A cave sucked LighteroggyBlueCheeks in along with his awe. Bats flickered frantically, applauding his arrival he thought, and an echo of mystery advanced his curiosity’s comfort deep into the unknown of the hollow. Drops were trickling down the guts of the hush hush, stones shaped like plants and animals seemed to be mimicking what was definitely somewhere above. There was one stone formed like a horse, another like some prehistoric creature, and another like some flying creature! ‘Are these roots of the beauty above? Or could they be presents of the darkness, descending to meet the ground and find their way toward the light?’ LighteroggyBlueCheeks carried on in a profound mumble, ‘that could be it! light is always there! right where darkness must end!’. The sun waiting outside could hear every little bright croakfull thought, punctually reacting to the moment, and with a swift ray they were on their way.
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The lake below welcomed them all, LighteroggyBlueCheeks, sparkles and bubbles. ‘Such a hydratingly tranquil miracle of a pond size!’ LighteroggyBlueCheeks ribbited, definitely persuading the overjoyed sun in saying, ‘a lake, my favored ray filling!’. The sun’s specialty to be encrusting in its golden warmth all sorts, had achieved ecstatic satisfaction, finding such purity in its ray’s core. LighteroggyBlueCheeks rippled his joy while backstroking triumphantly around the lake, making his tadpole memories best friends with the future. The proficient sun couldn’t help spotlighting in an eventful dialect, ‘how about you show all your new friends the froggy style, that became one of their own favorite ways to celebrate the water!? And then, maybe we can try what the utmost dry tranquility is all about?’
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‘Pink rocks?!’ LighteroggyBlueCheeks exclaimed in utter wonder. On their way the sun would say, ‘rocks during a favorite time before night comes, are painted amongst other colors, pink, bringing to life one of my most inspired combinations to decorate the shoreline, pink and turquoise with a splash of white bouquets’. LighteroggyBlueCheeks found himself sitting in sunshine poetry. Imagination was galivanting across the sky, clouds were disguised in fantasy, and the vastness of the sea was waving, come to me. Birds were flying in chirping arrangements, forming a medley of freedom’s secrets. It was at that very moment, LighteroggyBlueCheeks could not help his heart from melting to mold freedom itself. Bliss was the gentle kiss he received from all the surrounding beauty before he indulged in the pond-like generosity of the sea.
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Stars sparkled their promising hope, lullabying LighteroggyBlueCheeks’s gratitude…

The End?

A dedication to children and their invaluable innocence. What wisely allows a friend like Sleep Sam to have nourish their souls with confidence, along with values and morals necessary for safeguarding their decency, and helping them lead a successful, generous, and kind life.
This is the story of an expert in counting lamb; his confidence brings a dream to life simply because it can. A story where poetry and metaphors become the vessel for the well-nourished soul to travel towards successful living in ways that matter, in ways for one to strive with common sense the wise, and its considerate decency a loyal compass. This is the invigorating story of a man with the most well-rested plan, sleep Sam!

Meet sleepy Sam, quite the expert in counting lamb.
He can promise his dreams punctuality if anything, and in return,
his dreams will look forward in becoming as true as they can.
This is the invigorating story of a man with the most well-rested plan, sleepy Sam!
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There he was, standing against a lamp post, waiting for the bus.
Traffic was not to be a problem, and patience was no fuss.
Sleepy Sam was already on his way! He could dream of his destination,
assisted by his confidence, that made up for a great part of his creation.
A long journey it would be indeed,
but with as many stops as he would possibly need.
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Sure, sleepy Sam was a big fitness fan.
He even trained muscles responsible for yawning as hard as he can.
But muscle flexing was not all that he did.
His brain was not to be neglected,
he dreamt of building a future beyond appearances detected.
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He got so good at sleeping he could at the same time walk.
On more than a few locations he found himself with some hansom wall talk.
So many wonders he would go on to share,
even in the absence of an audience,
his mind to lock itself it could not bear.
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Sleepy Sam had slept enough to be awake in class,
unfortunately, he couldn’t help himself from sleeping through midnight mass.
But angels and prayers were a dream that was true,
and even when one was to be sleeping,
they would always find their way towards you.
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Carnival soon came,
and everything but himself was not quite the same.
He was dressed as a dreamer, being an explorer in an unknown land,
but that didn’t mean he couldn’t notice the pleasureful beach dressed in quicksand.
So, he snored and ignored the mystery present,
being that proficient explorer kept him safe from ending up a curious peasant.
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Now, under his covers a sculpture of sleep,
the essence of dreaming his heart safely shall keep.
Coziness had him tightly in bed,
magical nutrients his subconscious it fed.
Before opening eyes,
having happiness professionally color his skies,
he still sleeps, with peace his best friend,
its generosity a compass on which always he can depend.
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The End
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May your smile always reach for the sky.