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Zebly Titan and

the Mystery of GLOP!

I t was another fine day in Megaminster-on-the-Wold.
The sun was shining, the birds were tweeting, and down
in the park dogs were running around in circles. However,
up on the roof of the town hall, the superhero Zebly Titan
was brooding.

“From high above, the mighty Zebly Titan
surveys Megaminster. When his home planet
and family mysteriously disappeared, this
superhero journeyed to Earth and became
a champion of justice. A lone hero with no
friends and one enemy: EVIL!”

Unfortunately, Zebly’s cool speech was
interrupted by his friend, Supercorn Bob.

“Hey, Zebly, I know you like brooding
and making cool speeches about
yourself, but we still have to patrol
the city and I have a dentist’s
appointment this afternoon…”

Even though he liked the idea of being a
mysterious lone superhero, Zebly did have
friends, and Supercorn Bob was one of them.

When he was a baby, Robert “Is it a supervillain? Can I use my
Cornelius Cobb had accidentally tried immense strength to defeat it?”
to eat the ancient treasure known as
the Golden Corncob of the Incas. This Supercorn Bob pointed down at a big
led to him losing most of his baby advertising screen on one of the
teeth, but gaining incredible corn- buildings below.
based superpowers.
“Nooo, I don’t think so. It looks like
As Supercorn Bob, he had the ability a kind of… cake?”
to fly, and become super-strong by
eating a snack of healthy corn. Far below, Zebly could see the
screen Supercorn was pointing at.
Zebly reluctantly agreed that they It showed pictures of doughnuts,
should go and make sure everything cakes and other sweet-looking
was OK in Megaminster-on-the-Wold, things, made out of glistening multi-
so they flew off together. coloured stuff. It also showed a
cheerful jellylike creature with a
Everything looked peaceful – almost speech bubble, saying, ‘Try GLOP
too peaceful. “Zebly, do you know today! It’s FREE!’
what GLOP is?” asked Supercorn Bob.

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“I don’t know what it is… but I want to super-tongue to rescue frogs, turtles,
try it!” Zebly didn’t tell anybody this, eels, fish, voles and other creatures
but the main reason he had decided caught in the gloop. Zebly and
to come to Earth was because it was Supercorn Bob helped scoop the
home to the most delicious substance animals out and clean them up.
in the universe: cake! And that shiny
cake with whipped cream on the big “What IS this stuff?” Zebly Titan
screen looked SOOO delicious! poked at the goo. Supercorn Bob
took a nibble and made a face.
Supercorn interrupted him again.
“No time for food now Zebly – “Yuck! This tastes like plastic and
Froglleta just called. She says there’s artificial sweeteners! I think this
something really bad happening down might be that GLOP stuff!”
in the Wetlands Nature Sanctuary!
“Where is it from?” asked Zebly.
Zebly and Supercorn Bob flew over
to the marshes as quickly as they Froglleta pointed towards the town.
could. Something was very wrong: “It fell out of a big spaceship thing that
there was a big glop of multi-coloured flew over here – it looked like it was
goo in the middle of the swamp! heading towards the town centre!”
That was where they found the frog-
hero Froglleta, who was using her Zebly Titan stood up, put his hands
on his hips, and struck a heroic pose.

“Friends, we must find this mysterious The people of Megaminster gathered
enemy who is polluting our swamps around, curious about what was
and our cities with artificial stuff!” causing this hullabaloo, but nervous
about trying the strange-looking food.
Supercorn Bob, Zebly Titan and
Froglleta flew to the middle of town, The heroes had found the source
where a strange dome-shaped of the GLOP… but who was the
spaceship had landed. Long metal mastermind behind it?
tentacles were coming out of the
ship and arranging piles of cakes, There was a door on the side of the
doughnuts, sweets and other things spaceship, but they couldn’t open it.
on tables – but all of this ‘food’ looked Supercorn Bob had a snack of
like it was made out of some strange healthy corn and then tried to
and unhealthy plastic! yank it open, but it wouldn’t
budge. Zebly Titan pulled out
A robotic-sounding voice came out his FireLit Spanner, but
of dome-shaped loudspeakers. couldn’t melt or unbolt
“Get your GLOP here! It’s extra- it either. It was Froglleta
sweet and 100% FREE! who had the best idea:
You’ll love it!” she just went up to the
door and knocked
politely.

After a few seconds, the door slid Bob looked embarrassed. “Sorry,
open to reveal… a tiny little creature that happens when I get mad.”
that looked like a cute little blob of
pink jelly with eyes and a mouth. “Oh dear!” said the pink alien. “My
It looked them up and down before name is Jeliphron, and I got lost when
saying, “Yeeeess? Can I help you?” I made a wrong turn at Sirius! I wanted
to make friends with the people on
Supercorn Bob was getting a bit angry this nice planet, so I got my ship’s
– his kernels were vibrating, as if they robo-kitchen to make some snacks.
were about to pop. “What do you My people love GLOP. It’s our
think you are doing, dumping your favourite food and very good for us!”
artificial gloop in our wetlands?” he
shouted. “And even worse, you’re Zebly then piped up. “And what about
giving out this sweet, artificial and that GLOP that you dropped in the
unhealthy food to everybody! swamp? We have enough litter and
Unhealthy food makes me so…” pollution already without you
With that, there was a rapid popping dumping your junk here!”
sound as the kernels on Supercorn
Bob exploded, leaving him almost The jelly-alien wobbled sadly.
covered in a pile of big fluffy popcorn. “When I was flying over the swamp,
I forgot that you have ‘gravity’ here,
and a big blob of GLOP fell out of
the ship. I promise to clean it up!”

“Welcome to Earth, Mr… Jeliphron!” said “My special popcorn, white chocolate
Froglleta. “It’s very kind of you to offer and berry bars!” grinned Froglleta.
to make us some treats, but sweet, “They’re healthy, and tasty too!”
artificial food like GLOP is no good for
Earth-creatures! But I can show you how “I wanted to ask you something, Jeli…
to make some really tasty food that is Jeli… do you mind if I just call you ‘Jelly’
good for us.” for short?” said Zebly Titan.

“Jelly is fine!” agreed the alien.

She went and got some ingredients from “Well, I’m an alien stranded on Earth,
the shops, gathered up the popcorn that just like you,” said Zebly. “Maybe you
Supercorn Bob had accidentally made, could move into my secret Titan HQ
and added some of the strange berries and keep me company?”
she used to get her own superpowers.
Froglleta then programmed the robo- “That sounds like fun!” said Jelly,
kitchen with a new recipe, and in less smiling and jiggling with excitement.
than a minute the robot tentacles ‘Say, Mr. Zebly, so you need a sidekick
were serving up some delicious to help you out?’
crunchy treats.
That was how Zebly Titan met Jelly –
“Mmmm, these are better than cake!” and they would have many exciting
said Zebly. “What are they?” adventures together!

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Famous Fables

The Jackal

and the Camel

In days long past, there lived a jackal and a camel.
They were good friends – and they both believed
that food was even more delicious if it was stolen!

One evening, they planned to raid
a farm on the far side of a mighty river.
The jackal could not swim, but the
camel said, “Do not worry – you can
ride on my hump while I swim across!”

So that night, the camel waded
into the water with the jackal
upon his back, then swam
across the river and carried
his friend safely to the
other side. The camel
went into the farm
fields and began to
feast upon the
spinach and corn
and millet, but he
ate slowly, for
such food takes
a lot of chewing!

Meanwhile, the jackal slipped quietly The jackal did not listen, however.
into the henhouse, took a chicken, He howled out his song, and sure
and gulped it down quickly. enough the farmer awoke and heard
him. The farmer charged out of his
Then, satisfied, he strolled over house with a big stick, and when he
to where the camel was still halfway found the camel in his field eating his
through his meal, and said, “My friend, crops, he kicked him while the cunning
after such a meal, I feel so happy that I jackal slipped quietly away.
really want to sing my joyous song!”
After taking many kicks, the camel
The camel frowned at him while ran away and found the jackal on the
chewing his tough food and said, bank of the river. He said to his friend,
“Friend jackal, wait a while. Though “Jackal, why did you sing your song
you have eaten, I am only halfway when I asked you not to? It cost me
through my dinner. If you sing your many bruises!”
song, the farmer will hear – and if he
catches me still in his field, why, he will The jackal did not care, saying, “When
give me such a beating!” I have eaten well, I must sing; such is
my nature!”

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He then jumped on the camel’s back, The frightened jackal realised that
and the sore animal got into the river he had been selfish to his friend by
and began to swim across. singing after his dinner and bringing
the anger of the farmer upon the
However, when the camel got to the camel. He said, “My faithful friend,
middle, he said, “After a nice meal, I I have wronged you, and I will never
like to roll in the river and give myself do it again. Please take me safely to
a nice bath!” the bank!”

The jackal was frightened and said, The camel took the fox back to the
“But I can’t swim! If you roll, I will fall bank, where they both rolled on
off and drown!” the dry grass together – and all
was forgiven.
“But to roll in the river after a meal
is my nature,” said the wise camel. THINk ABOUT IT!
“Surely you don’t want me to go
against my nature?” What lesson do you think we can learn from
the story of the camel and the jackal?

Poems and Rhymes

The Secret

We have a secret, just we three, SHArE
The robin, and I, and the sweet cherry-tree; A SECrET!
The bird told the tree, and the tree told me,
And nobody knows it but just us three. Have you ever found
the secret home of
But of course the robin knows it best, a bird or animal?
Because she built the – I shan’t tell the rest;
And laid the four little – something in it – Where was it?
I’m afraid I shall tell it every minute.

But if the tree and the robin don’t peep,
I’ll try my best the secret to keep;
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Then the whole secret will be out.

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Storyteller’s Corner

The birthday of
the Fairy Queen

Many years ago, in the green hills of Ireland, in a wood
that was deep and dark, under the shadow of a craggy
hill, there lived a girl named Nora.

She lived in a tiny stone cottage with her loving family, and her granny used to tell
her stories about the fairy folk who lived beneath the earth and liked to meet by

the peaceful little pool in the
woods, just down the hill from
the cottage.
Even though her life was happy,
Nora was a little bit gloomery.
What does that mean? It means

that she was a little bit sad, and
Nora did tend to mope when her
work was too hard or her family was
too busy to pay attention to her.

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On such days, she liked to go down We were
to the little pond and sit on the nice wondering…
big rock that was warmed by the sun. would you like to come
On one such day, when Nora was with us to Fairyland and
feeling gloomery, she went down to see if we might find a
her special spot and leaned against way to cheer you up?”
the sun-warmed stone, where she
watched the birds flutter by as the Nora said nothing, but her
tree-branches waved against the sky. eyes grew wide. Catkin said,
Quite soon, she drifted off to sleep. “Well I’ll take that as a ‘yes’, my lady!“

When she awoke, she was surprised He jumped down off her knee and
to see a tiny little figure standing on handed her a tiny seed, so small it
her knee, looking at her expectantly. could hardly be seen. “You’ll need to
Nora realised straight away that it eat this to enter our kingdom.” Nora
must be a fairy – a fairy no more than carefully ate the tiny seed and found
two inches tall, with mossy hair, a vest herself shrinking until she was just as
and trousers the colour of green tiny as Catkin.
leaves, and a handsome face the
shape and colour of a walnut. The Her new friend grinned at her and
little fairy bowed to her and said, said, “This way!” He skipped between
“Why hello, lady Nora Mavourneen! the blades of grass (now tall as trees)
My name is Catkin, and we fairy folk to a nearby oak and knocked on a
have noticed that you have been sad. knothole as if it were a door.

Just like a door, it opened, revealing
a tiny tunnel in the wood.

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The fairy led her down the tunnel, Nora looked in wonder
which was glowing golden as if lit up as the dragonflies flitted
by the amber-coloured sap of the tree. above the water, and tadpoles
swam beneath her.
The tunnel then went down into the
tree’s roots and continued through The leaf came to shore in front of
the soil of the forest, with roots and a big oak tree, and Catkin led her
the occasional worm coming out of the into a cave underneath the tree’s
earth walls. It would have been dark, roots. They entered a vast chamber,
but the tunnel was lit up by fireflies which was lit by a golden amber
who hung on the walls. By the light of light and was filled with fairies of
the fireflies’ glowing bottoms, Nora all kinds – from pretty tree-spirits
could see fairy folk mining gems and in leaf-green to handsome knights
gold from the walls of the tunnels and in shiny armour that looked like
wheeling them away in wheelbarrows. insect shells, and wizened bearded
gnomes with skin as tough and
“What are they doing?” asked Nora. wrinkled as tree-bark.
“Why, they are gathering gems to
place as dewdrops on the leaves,
and gold to turn into the golden
blossoms that hang from the plants
in the meadows!” replied Catkin.

Finally, the tunnel emerged
from the earth by the side
of the little pool in the
woods. As Nora blinked
in the sunlight, her fairy
friend led her to a leaf
floating on the pool. He
helped her step aboard,
and then a gust of wind
sent the leaf sailing across
the pond.

At the end of the chamber was a high “Our blessings to Pennyblack, who
platform where there stood a beautiful sheltered the lillies of Moira from
fairy lady in a crown and a silver the Frost King…” proclaimed the
gown, who seemed to glow from queen, “And to Hornhands, who
within with her own magical light. watered with dewdrops the grain fields
of Kilvellin… to Foxglove, who filled the
“That is the Fairy Queen,” Catkin holes in the road to Throselwait Fair!
whispered to Nora. “It is her birthday,
and she is giving out honours to those Then Catkin slipped his little brown
fairies who have served her well!” hand into Nora’s and gently led her
through the crowd and up onto the
The queen’s voice rang out like platform where the Fairy Queen stood.
a silver bell in the chamber, as a
procession of fairies approached DrAW A FAIrY!
her to be honoured. Nora noticed that
though some of the glittering knights sDmfTtooohilgwkerhyrntettalilolmaievarseeed.miCmanaaaFygnnaoayiyurzyorkinupiFneardd.arcrskmaooomwefr/fiagnfaraifeorrayeudirreinynw?Iterhibsahstite:
and elegant ladies in shimmering
dresses were honoured, many of
those called on by the queen were
bent-backed gnomes and pookas
who were dirty and dusty from
hard work.

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Nora was too nervous even to speak She jumped up and ran back to
as she stared into the eyes of the the cottage beneath the hill, crying,
beautiful glowing Fairy Queen, but “Mother! Grandmother! The most
the queen smiled and took Nora’s amazing thing happened to me!”
face in her hands.
Her mother and grandmother looked
“Dear girl, we little-folk have been at her in surprise, and then her granny
watching you, and when you are sad smiled and pointed at Nora’s cheeks.
you make us sad. We love you, and
you need never be gloomery again!” “So I see! Our little Nora has been
blessed by the Fairy Queen herself!”
With that, the Fairy Queen kissed Nora
gently on each cheek. The next thing When Nora looked in the mirror, she
Nora knew, she awoke leaning against saw that she now had a pretty little
the sun-warmed stone by the pool, dimple on each cheek – and she
back at her normal size. was never gloomery again.

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Favourite Fairy Tales

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Once upon a time, there was a king who lived in a country
by the sea. He went on a voyage to meet with the ruler of
another kingdom, but a mighty storm came up and drove his
ship onto a reef.

The sailors could not free the ship, and the storm waves pounded away at it.
It seemed as if the ship would soon be broken apart by the sea, and everyone
aboard would drown.
It was then that the mighty Mermaid Queen appeared, balancing on the

stormy waves, and spoke to the king.
“Your majesty! I can save your ship and
your lives – but in return you must give

me your first-born son!”

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The king yelled back over the noise The queen soon gave birth to a
of the storm, “But I have no son!” healthy baby who grew into a strong
and happy boy, and the king and
The mermaid said, “One day you will, queen loved him dearly.
and you must give him to me!”
However, the king was troubled by
The king did not want to give up his the promise he had made, and told
heir, but then a mighty wave broke the queen. They both worried about
over the ship and water began to what would happen if the Mermaid
flood into the hold. What good would Queen came to claim their son.
it be if he and the rest of the crew
drowned in the sea? He agreed to They knew that she had powerful
give the Mermaid Queen his first-born water magic, so they told the prince
son in return for their lives, and the never to go near water – not even
mermaid used her magic to calm a pond or stream.
the storm and lift the ship off the reef.
When the prince became a teenager,
When the king returned home, his wife the king and queen grew even more
greeted him happily and said, “I have worried that the Mermaid Queen
wonderful news. I am going to have a
baby!” The king was glad to hear this.

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would come to snatch him away. The prince enjoyed walking through
“We cannot keep him here!” the queen the fields in the summer sunlight, but
said. “This is the first place she will as evening closed in, he found himself
look. We have to send him away!” in a dark and forbidding forest.
The King agreed, and with a heavy
heart he told his son that he had to The prince gathered bundles of ferns
leave and go off into the world. for a bed, and as he was about to
go to sleep, he heard a buzzing on
The prince was not afraid of leaving the ground and found a small bee.
the castle – in fact, he saw it as a “I’m lost!” buzzed the bee. “Can you
great adventure! He put aside his spare some food and drink and a
velvet clothes and put on a simple place to sleep?”
woollen cloak and a leather knapsack
filled with flasks of wine and loaves of “Certainly!” said the Prince, for he had
bread and set off from the castle. been brought up well. “Please accept
this crumb of bread and capful of wine
for your supper!”

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The bee finished these morsels, and The prince took this as a challenge.
the two then curled up together on That night, he used the antenna to
the ferns and fell asleep. turn into a bee and flew through the
high window of the princess’s room
In the morning, the grateful bee gave and introduced himself. At first, she
the prince one of his antennae, which was frightened of the talking bee who
the prince could use to turn himself came to her in the night, but she was
into a bee. finally won over by his wit and charm.
When he turned into a human, she saw
The next day, the prince came to that he was as handsome as he was
a wealthy city by the seashore. The charming, and declared that she would
guards told the prince that the emperor marry only him.
of the city had a beautiful daughter,
but she hated all men. The emperor The next day, the emperor marched
wanted to find a husband for the off to war against one of his neighbours,
princess and had given her paintings and the prince volunteered to join his
of all the handsomest princes and army. Before he left though, he told the
noblemen in the land, but she refused princess, “If I do not come home, play
to look at them and tore them up. your violin every night in the window

by the sea, so that I might hear you He flew back to the castle, arriving
and find my way back to you.” before the others. The prince went
to the emperor’s daughter’s room to
The next day the emperor and his retrieve the sword, and she was so
army set off, with the prince among happy to see him that she took a ring
them. However when they stopped off her finger, broke it in two, and gave
for lunch, the emperor discovered that half to him as a symbol of their love.
he had left his sword behind, hidden in
his daughter’s room. “The soldier who The prince then set off back to the
gets my sword and brings it to me will emperor’s camp with the sword, but
receive my daughter’s hand in along the way he felt thirsty. Setting
marriage!” he declared. down the sword, he bent down to drink
from a stream. Unfortunately, this was
Several men, including a wicked just the chance the Mermaid Queen
general called the Red Knight, had been waiting for all these years.
charged off to get the sword, but the She used her water-magic to pull him
prince waited until they had gone and underwater, through the stream, and
then used the bee’s antenna to turn then out into the sea.
himself into a bee again.

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The Mermaid Queen bound him with seaweed

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The Red Knight found the emperor’s That night, she played her violin by
sword lying by the stream, so he took her window. The Mermaid Queen
it back to the emperor and claimed to heard the music far beneath the
have collected it himself. The emperor waves and told the prince, “Listen!
was glad to get his weapon back and A lady plays a song for her lost love!”
decreed that the Red Knight should The prince pretended he could not
marry his daughter. hear the music however, saying,
“I can only hear the sound of the
With his sword, the emperor defeated whales and the dolphins!”
his neighbour and returned to his city
in triumph. However, the princess was The Mermaid Queen lifted him closer
upset when her prince was not there to the surface, but the prince claimed
– and she was furious when her father he could only hear the murmur of the
told her she had to marry the Red waves. The Mermaid Queen then
Knight instead! lifted him completely out of the water
– but when she did this the prince
touched the bee antenna in his

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pocket, turned into a bee, and flew The prince and the emperor’s
away to freedom! daughter then pulled out the two
halves of the gold ring to prove that
The prince buzzed back to the what she had said was true.
emperor’s palace, at the very
time the emperor’s daughter was The emperor was amazed by this
supposed to marry the Red Knight. news. The Red Knight was stripped
However, the prince flew into the of his rank and kicked out of the
wedding in bee form and transformed palace for lying, while the prince and
back into a human right in front of the emperor’s daughter were married
the amazed guests. The emperor’s and lived happily ever after. And the
daughter was overjoyed to see him Mermaid Queen? She never saw
and declared, “This is the man who the prince ever again!
really retrieved my father’s sword
– and he is the man I will marry!”

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Storyland Adventures

Old MacDonald Had

A Farmers’ Market!

When Old MacDonald announced that he was going
away on holiday, the news caused an uproar in
Storyland. After all, Old MacDonald’s market stall was
where everybody got their groceries!

Henny Penny went to Old MacDonald’s house
in a panic.

“How can you go away like this?” squawked
the chicken. “We will all starve, just you wait!”

Old MacDonald continued putting things in his
travelling trunk – his best kilt, his sporran and
his tam o’ shanter.

“Don’t worry about that!” said the However, there was never going
farmer as he squeezed his bagpipe to be enough space in one stall for
into the trunk, which made the pipes everyone to put their things! It looked
squeal and tootle. “Why don’t you ebd] na] Ƅlmn PnilseXh\ gXld]n qXm
and the other Storylanders use my over before it began, but then Henny
market stall to sell the food you Penny had an idea.
make? I’m sure you have plenty
of eggs that you could sell?” “Hey, everybody! Why don’t we set
up a Storyland farmers’ market in the
Henny Penny thought this was a great Far Far Away Fields?”
idea! When Old MacDonald left, she
ran around Storytown, clucking, “Bring Everybody agreed this was a great
your food to sell at Old MacDonald’s idea and trooped over to the Far
stall tomorrow! Bring your food to sell Far Away Fields. Pinocchio used
at Old MacDonald’s stall tomorrow!” his hammer and nails to build lots
of stalls for everyone, and Little
The next day, dozens of Storylanders Red and Rapunzel sewed brightly
started arriving with boxes and jars coloured awnings to shade them
and wagons full of lovely food to sell from the sunshine. Then everybody
at Old MacDonald’s market stall. unpacked their goods and set up
their stalls.

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Old MacDonald’s cow had made `ie\]h mslojҫ Qa] Qal]] Ibnne] Mb`m
some special organic cheese, the had made their own homemade
Qal]] >]Xlm aX\ Ƅee]\ cXlm qbna aih]s vegan bacon – and even the Big
from the beehives behind their house, Bad Wolf agreed it tasted better
Mlbh[]mm J]lbZ]e Zlio`an a]l ^l]maes than the real thing!
shelled peas, Mother Goose sold
`iim] ]``mҮ Xh\ Jbees m]n oj X mnXh\ Piih na] h]q PnilseXh\ ^Xlg]lmӆ
where she dished out big bowls of her market was bustling, with all the
porridge, topped with cinnamon and PnilseXh\]lm mXgjebh` na] \]eb[biom

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wares, asking questions, and just and dragging his trunk behind him,
having a good time. Jack and his Henny Penny was there to meet him.
Magic Harp Band played music to
keep everyone entertained, and a “Hello Old MacDonald, did you have
lovely time was had by all. When a nice trip?”
evening fell and it was time to tidy up,
everything had been sold. Everyone “Why, yes I did!” replied the farmer.
agreed that this new market was F ]p]h qih na] ZX`jbj] jeXsiƂ Xn
a big success! the Clan MacDonald gathering! Did
everyone have fun selling their food?”
When Old MacDonald came back
from his holiday, happy and tired “It was great!” replied Henny Penny
happily. “We’re going to have a
farmers’ market every month from
now on!”

at Ntheexbtotttiommeo:f What is hiding
the Moon River?

Around the World Tales

The Calabash Kids

In the land of Tanzania, there lived a woman named
Shindo. Her husband had died many years before and
she had no children, so she had to do all the work on her
small farm by herself.

Every day from dawn to dusk, she would
clean the house and yard, chop firewood,
weed the garden and tend to her bananas
and maize and millet, before cooking her
evening meal and eating alone.

One night, she prayed, “My life is so
hard and lonely, please send someone
to help me!”

The next day, she found some strange
seeds outside. Puzzled, she planted them
in a patch of earth behind her hut and
tended them carefully. Over the next few
weeks, shoots sprang up, which grew into
lush vines that sprouted a crop of fine
calabashes. When they were ready,
Shindo carefully harvested the
calabashes, cut off their tops,
scooped out the pulp inside, and
then carefully put them on the roof
of her hut to dry in the sun.

She planned to sell them at the Kitete was the boy who had grown out
market, as calabash gourds were of the big calabash that had been left
very useful for holding grain or water. to dry in front of the fire. He came out
of the house and helped his brothers
However, the biggest and finest and sisters down from the roof.
calabash she kept for herself and took
into her hut to dry in front of the fire. The calabash kids then began running
around the yard, weeding the maize
Shindo then went down to the river and hanging out the laundry and even
to get water. As soon as she left, the feeding the surprised chickens! They
calabashes began to sprout heads also swept out the hut and cooked up
and arms and legs and fingers and a tasty stew for dinner. They were all
toes and turned into happy and very busy, except for Kitete. Being
healthy little calabash-kids! dried out in front of the fire had made
him slow, so he just stayed sitting
The kids on the roof all began calling outside the house, watching what was
out, “Kitete! Kitete! Our favourite going on with a big smile on his face.
brother! Help us climb down so
we can work for our mother!”

When all the work was done, Kitete Kitete helped his brothers and sisters
helped his brothers and sisters back down, and they happily worked in the
onto the roof, and they all turned house and garden – scrubbing the
back into calabashes. dishes and folding the laundry and
milking the goat and hoeing the
Shindo returned with the water and vegetable patch, while Kitete watched
was shocked by how neat and tidy the with a big smile on his face.
house and garden were, and had no
idea who had made the stew that was When Shindo suddenly showed
bubbling over the fire. When the other herself, the calabash kids were
women in the village called out to her, surprised and were about to run away
saying, “Shindo! Who were those when Shindo cried out, “Don’t go!
children working in your yard?”, she Thank you so much for helping me,
thought they were making fun of her. please stay and live with me as my
own children!” The calabash children
The next day, Shindo pretended to go were overjoyed and danced around
down to the river for water again, but her, singing.
sneaked back to see what would
happen in the yard. Sure enough, the Shindo and the calabash kids were
calabashes turned into children again very happy together. The children
and cried out, “Kitete! Kitete! Our loved playing games and helping their
favourite brother! Help us climb down
so we can work for our mother!”

new mother. They planted many new look on his face and changed back
fields of crops and fruit trees so they into a calabash.
all had plenty to eat, and Shindo had
lots left over to sell at the market. Kitete “What have I done?” cried Shindo.
was not the best worker, but he was “I didn’t mean it! Please come back,
happy all the time, and he was secretly my dear son!”
Shindo’s favourite.
The rest of the calabash kids gathered
However one day, Shindo was carrying around the gourd that had been Kitete,
a big pot of vegetables into the house joined hands with each other, and
when was very bright outside. When began to chant, “Kitete! Kitete! Our
she went into the dark house she favourite brother! Come back to us
couldn’t see Kitete sitting right in the and your loving mother!”
doorway and tripped over him,
breaking the pot and spilling With that, the gourd changed back into
vegetables all over the floor. She got Kitete, who had a big beautiful smile
angry and shouted at him: “Why do you on his face again.
sit there, just smiling and getting in the
way? You aren’t a real child at all, you Shindo and the calabash kids lived
are just a stupid calabash!” Kitete happily ever after together, and
stared up at her with a miserable she never called Kitete names
ever again.

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Myths and Legends

Redhorn and
the Great Race

Many long years ago, in a mighty lodge in the forest, there lived
ten brothers. All were known far and wide as great warriors and
hunters – except for the youngest, who was smaller than the rest
and preferred to stay indoors by the fire.

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One day, his eldest brother Kuni threw some deer lungs at him
and said that he should eat them to grow big and strong, so
everybody made fun of the youngest brother and called him
‘He-Who-Had-Deer-Lungs-Thrown-At-Him’!
When the brothers heard the news that a big race was going
to be held, and that the winner would get to marry the daughter
of a great chief, they all wanted to take part. However, Kuni told
the youngest that he had to stay home.
When the brothers arrived for the race, they saw that all the
greatest nature spirits were taking part – the Bear and Deer and
Turtle spirits, the night spirits, and even the mighty Thunderbird!

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However, all the other on top of a distant hill! How had
competitors started jeering, he gotten so far ahead of them?
saying, “Look who’s here! It’s little When they reached the top of that
‘Deer-Lungs’!” It was only then hill, they saw that Turtle was now on
that the brothers noticed that the top of a hill further along, cheekily
youngest had tagged along – and waving at them.
even more embarrassing, he was
wearing a deer-skin vest with the The youngest brother had enough of
fur facing outward (which was being mocked by Turtle. He took out
very unfashionable). his bow and fired an arrow – and
then used magic to turn himself into
The race was to be right around the arrow so he could fly swiftly after
the rim of the Earth and back. the cunning reptile. However, when
When the horn was blown, all the he reached the top of the hill and
competitors set off – the ten brothers turned back into a human, he
and Thunderbird and all the spirits! discovered that the turtle on top
But far ahead they saw Turtle of the hill was not the great Turtle,

but a little turtle in disguise! Turtle could stop him, but she did not trust
had a cunning plan to win the chief’s him and wouldn’t stop crying.
daughter without even running the
race: he had told smaller turtles to When Kuni found out that Turtle
hide on hilltops around the edge of had cheated and taken the chief’s
the world and pretend to be him – daughter, he was furious. He went to
and then he could sneak over the Turtle’s lodge and knocked him down
finish line ahead of everyone else with one blow from his war-club.
and pretend to have won!
When Kuni took the chief’s daughter
Furious, the youngest brother sprinted out of the lodge, Turtle told him, “I’m
to the finish line, but Turtle came out only letting you take her because I
of the bushes and crossed the finish want to be friends with your fast and
line just ahead of him. cunning little brother – not because
you hit me!” However, neither Kuni nor
Turtle claimed that he had won the the chief’s daughter believed him!
chief’s daughter and dragged her
back to his lodge before anyone

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Kuni presented the chief’s daughter His second-oldest brother said,
to his little brother, as he was the real “What a great power you have!
winner of the race. However, the little Can you give me a makeover too?’
brother told her, “I’m sorry, but I think So Redhorn ran his hands through his
I’m too young to get married!” brother’s hair and made it extra-long.
She replied, “Oh, that is all right – The third-eldest brother wanted a
I’m too young to get married too.” new hairstyle too, so Redhorn made
it yellow on one side.
After winning the Great Race, the little
brother decided that he needed a That is the story of how the hero
new name. “I’m sick of being called Redhorn had his first great adventure
‘Deer-Lungs’! I choose the name and got his name.
‘Redhorn’!” He ran his
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which turned blood-red,
and shaped it into a
great curved horn.

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Storytime

Playbox

This month you get to make some tasty chocolate-popcorn treats,
complete a tricky quiz, and go on a round-the-world race!

1 PLUNDERING
PROBLEMS!
PHACINS
The jackal and the camel have

broken into a farm to get something A B
to eat, but the farmer has mixed up
the signs labelling his crops and CNOR
animals to fool would-be thieves!

Can you work out what each thing is?

2 SPOT IT! LEMTIL C D
CHESNICK
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3 CALABASH KIDS!DRAW YOUR OWN Use this outline to create
your own calabash kids!
Be creative, and don’t
forget to colour them in too!

4 Henny Penny has sked
you to mind her stall
at the market. Can you
work out how many
Golden Guilders each
basket of food will cost?

=1 A ++ =

=2

=3 B ++ =

=5 =

C+ +

5 FIND THE
BUTTERFLIES!

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gXhs s]eeiq Zonn]lƇb]m na]l]
are in this scene?
Tlbn] \iqh how
many sio aXp]
spotted in here!

6 G ASK AMAKE FROGLLETA’S POPCORN BARS

ROWN-UP!Here is Froglleta’s recipe for a sweet but healthy snack. Ask

an adult to help you melt the chocolate and cut up the bars!

YOU NEED: • Line a rimmed baking sheet with greaseproof paper.

200g white • Break up the white chocolate into chunks. Melt it by simmering

chocolate some water in a saucepan and putting a heatproof bowl on

75g dried blueberries top. Place the chocolate in the bowl so it can be gently melted
by the heat from the hot water.
75g popped popcorn
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cereal
the melted white chocolate with a rubber spatula or wooden
50g dark or milk spoon. Then turn out the mixture onto the baking sheet and
chocolate jl]mm \iqh bhni Xh ]p]h eXs]l ih na] ma]]nҫ

• Melt the dark chocolate using the same

TIP! method as for the white chocolate. When it is
g]en]\Ү \lbuue] na] \Xld [ai[ieXn] Xee ip]l na]
pressed-down mixture on the baking sheet.

• Place the baking sheet in the refrigerator for

Vio [Xh om] \bƂ]l]hn an hour so the mixture can set. When it is
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board. Use a sharp knife to cut the mixture
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all delicious!

ANSWERS: 1. Plundering Problems! – A - SPINACH, B - CORN, C - MILLET, D - CHICKENS ; 2. Spot It! – the hat is on
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Storytime GrEAT

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Secret, what is the
3 Boy, what did the emperor’s secret hing that the
daughter give the prince half robin h
of as a symbol of her love? the cherry tree?

a. An apple a. A vest

b. A chocolate bar b. A nest

A rin Hint: It is also c. A chest
something you
can do with a

telephone!

In The Jackal and the 6 WiMnhsaticcruDhmomneuansltdicdapolleasyO? ld

5 Camel, what was it in a. Saxophone
the Jackal’s nature to b. Drums
do after a meal? c. Bagpipe
a. Sing
b. Sleep
c. Burp

What does Nora get fr 7 Which crop does
the Fairy Queen’s kiss? Shindo NOT grow
I certainly in her garden?
a. Dimpl hope it’s not
b. Wart a. Maize
c. Pim pimples! b. Bananas
c. Apples

How many characters 10
have glasses in this issue?
Which story do
a1
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from the clues!
?
1. I am a great ruler!
2. I kept a prince as my prison
3. I can control the waters!

ANSWERS: 1b, 2a, 3c, 4b, 5a, 6c, 7a, 8c, 9b, 10a. Who Am I? –
The Mermaid Queen.

Redhorn’s 10

ROUND-THE-WOrLD RACE!

Why not challenge your friends to a race around 9
the world? Play as Redhorn, his big brother Kuni,

or even the slow but tricky Turtle!

How to Play 78

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these simple rules to play the game!

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to the player on your left.

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of rolling the dice!

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