Jerry was watching television when he suddenly got up and went outside the house. He started doing something rather strange. With his garden spade, he made a deep ditch all around each of the young trees in the garden. As he was doing this, his mother came out. She was puzzled at what he was […]
It was a bright sunny day. Zara and Wayne had come with their uncle to the forest. They were on a safari. They stopped walking when they reached a spring. Soon, they were eating snacks. Then they sat in silence in the forest, well hidden. They were waiting for some wild animals to come and
An old carpenter had no family. He made puppets from wood in his free time. One day, a fairy decided to reward him for his hard work. She changed one of the puppets into a real boy! The happy old man named him Pinocchio and sent him to school. But Pinocchio did not like school.
The Hodge family was puzzled. There were things missing from the house. Dad found that there was no milk in the fridge though he had opened the bottle a while back. Mother’s washing basket was also missing. Grandma’s cardigan was missing. Sam’s pillow was missing. It was really amazing, the number of things which seemed
Once, a fox and a stork were great friends. One day, the fox invited the stork to his house for dinner. He had made soup. To play a joke on the stork, the fox served the soup in a flat dish. The fox easily lapped up his soup but the poor stork could not as
It has become a habit in the Wilbur family that whenever anyone buys a new pair of shoes, they always ask for the box. This is because Tod is always glad to get some shoe boxes. He makes a number of lovely things with them. He needs the following items–poster paints, gummed paper, cardboard toilet
It was a freezing night. Steve found it hard to sleep in bed. When he got up the next morning, he was surprised not to be able to see anything outside. He was very confused about the mysterious blanket which seemed to have come down all around his home. When he stepped out of his
There was a squirrel called Squitty who lived in the forest. Now, this squirrel did not have a home as the other squirrels did. So, when winter came, she started getting worried. She thought, ‘Where will I stay? I will freeze if I stay in the open. But all the holes have been occupied. I
Two sisters, Rose-Red and Snow-White, lived with their mother. One snowy evening, someone knocked at their door. It was a brown bear stiff with cold. They took care of the bear. He spent winters with them and then went away when spring came. One day, the girls came across a dwarf. He was struggling with
Once, a cat and a mouse were friends. They lived in a farm. One day the mouse told the cat about a cupboard full of eatables. So, they both decided to go there. Soon, both were enjoying the tasty things in the cupboard. There were cheese, some sausages and many other things. They were enjoying
A wolf was enjoying his meal when a bone got stuck in his throat. He started crying in pain. He asked many animals to help him but none did. Then a kind stork came by. The wolf promised to reward her if she would take out his bone. The kind stork agreed. At once, without
Mr. Wright loved watching animals and birds. He spent the whole year in the forest. One day, he showed his children how to make an observation platform in a tree. Soon, the children were sitting on it. It was so high up. They sat there waiting for some animal to come. Soon they saw a
A spider was worried. Winter was fast approaching. She had to get ready for that. So, at dawn, she wove her web between two stalks of a bush. She thought, ‘Maybe an insect will come this way.’ She kept waiting. Suddenly, along came a butterfly in search of some flowers and flew right into the
The wind was blowing hard. The leaves danced around joyfully. But a little horse-chestnut was scared. All his friends had fallen already, so he was very frightened. Suddenly, a gust of wind shook the branch and down fell the little horse-chestnut. David was sweeping the ground and the chestnut came rolling there. He saw the
Once, a duck gave birth to five ducklings. She saw them and noticed that one of the ducklings was not at all like the others. He was ugly! Soon, the ugly duckling realized this and left home. But life was hard for him. The weather kept changing. He also had to protect himself from the