Storytime - Issue 32 (April 2017)

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Poems and Rhymes
“Looks nice!” squawked the hens. “We Storyteller’s Corner
don’t want something that looks nice!
We want something to eat. We’d rather have THE BEST WAY TO END THE DAY! Storytime
Moscione wasn’t happy – he loved
a single grain than a farmyard full of diamonds! idling about, but he packed his bag, “I don’t believe it!” cried Moscione.
And to think that you called us feather-brained!” Moscione the Fool said farewell to his family and set off “It’s true. I’ll show you!”
The angry chickens flapped away to the other side of the coop, leaving for the city.
Just then, a deer came bounding
the cockerel all alone with the ring and a rumbling tummy.
towards the tree and, when it spotted
After a while, he met a young woman,
here was once a rich merchant who had the best of everything.
who was sitting in the shade of a tree.
So that is how the cockerel learnt that one person’s treasure is another person’s
He had a grand house and a life of luxury. But, alas, his son Storytime
STORYTIME junk. The farmer’s wife, however, was very pleased to get her diamond ring back T Moscione was rather a fool. “Good afternoon,” said Moscione. Lightning let it get a head start, then TM
when she came to feed the chickens later that day!
“May I join you?”
she sprinted towards the deer at
POETRY
Moscione just lay around all day with his head in the clouds. The merchant
COMPETITION Find It! joked that his son couldn’t tell a bean from a cucumber, but deep down, he “Yes,” said the woman. “My name is incredible speed. In four steps, she Storytime
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had overtaken it.
suspected it was true.
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Lightning, pleased to meet you.”
Meet feather and
Read a sweet
“Amazing!” called Moscione. “Will you
fur in Alphabet Zoo
“That’s an unusual name,” said
Irish folk tale
Moscione.
The farmer’s wife also lost her One day, tired of seeing his simpleton son doing nothing again, he gave him Find out what happens when join me on my journey? I will pay you TM No Adverts!
a wallet filled with money and said, “Son, it’s time for you to stop lazing about.
very handsomely.”
a leopard loses her spots!
diamond necklace. Can you spot Go and see the world. Go and make a living.” EXTRA FREE RESOURCES HERE: “Not when you see what I can do,” “Why not,” agreed Lightning, so they
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said the woman. “I can run faster
young poets around the
than lightning.”
world who entered
Storytime’s Poetry
Competition in 2016.
Our judge, poet Brian TALES FROM in issue
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Moses, described Bryn’s
entry, ‘The Seahorses’, as
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Bryn, from Leamington
Spa in England, is 9 years
old and loves reading,
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coding and painting.
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Moscione, it quickly darted away. “Where the wind will blow your top hat off.”
MONKEY MAYHEM! Don’t
Bryn!

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