Benny has many friends–Sammy, Kitty, Chinky and others. They get together to play in the evening. Mostly they love to play near a big tree. One Sunday morning, Benny and his friends play with the birds on the tree. Sammy and Kitty get some nuts for the birds. Kitty goes up the tree to give […]
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Benny has summer holidays. His Aunt Rose comes for a visit. One day, Benny and Aunt Rose go shopping. Aunt Rose has a bag. The bag has three green arrows forming a triangle. It is the symbol for ‘Recycle’. Aunt Rose is carrying a recycled bag. It is made from waste material. “Recycle means to
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Benny’s room is dirty. Everything is on the floor! His mother is angry! Benny cleans up and goes to school. He eats a banana and throws its skin on the way. Benny’s friend Martha slips on the banana peel and hurts her back. She is angry! Benny walks ahead. He eats an ice-cream and throws
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Benny has a beautiful kitchen garden and lawn. But he does not care! He tramples on plants while playing. Every day Benny goes to school. His classroom is in front of the school garden. Benny plucks leaves and flowers and plays with the plants. One day, Benny’s teacher notices him pulling out plants. She tells
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Benny is getting ready. He is going for a party with his friends. The party is in a big lawn on the riverside. There is plenty of food. It is a nice party. There is a big bonfire. Benny’s friends are dancing to loud music. Bunny rabbit and Momo monkey are throwing rubbish in the
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It was a bright sunny evening. The sun had almost set to appear in another land. All the hens locked themselves in the chicken coop for a safe night. In the moonlight, a fox came prowling around to hunt for prey. There was a fat cock roosting high up in the coop always in a
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After a long search, a crow had found a piece of cheese lying on a window-sill. Diving down she grabbed it, and flew off towards the forest before the housewife saw her stealing the cheese. She settled down on the branch of a shady tree and was looking forward to a delicious meal. She hadn’t
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Once a farmer bought a goose from the market. She looked like all the other geese, so he did not know that there was anything special about the goose. He carried her home and put her in a large basket in the shed. The goose made a comfortable nest in the basket. One morning, when
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Deep in the forest was a pool where the animals came for water every evening. One day, a beautiful stag came to the pool for a drink of water. He was truly magnificent to look at. As he lowered his head to have a drink, he saw his reflection in the pool. It showed him
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A fox had been hunting for food. He had been wandering around for long in search of food without success. He was feeling so hungry that he lost his concentration. He failed to notice where he was going. In fact, he didn’t see that there was a deep ditch in the mountainside. Suddenly, he found
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Polly, the poor milkmaid, lived on a farm with her mother. Her father died years ago. She had to help her mother to earn their living. She always wanted to have a comfortable life. She loved to daydream, while milking the cow, or cleaning the house or the shed. Her mother often scolded her for
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Once upon a time, a tortoise and a hare became friends in a forest. The hare loved to show off. The tortoise would patiently listen to all his tall stories, because he knew the hare was a good-hearted fellow. One summer morning, the tortoise joined the hare and a group of animals sitting around the
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A farmer was old and dying. He had three sons and found that they were always quarrelling with one another. This worried the old farmer. ‘What will they do after I die?’ he wondered. One day he decided to do something before it was too late. He ordered his servant to fetch him a bundle
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It was summer, the season for sweet and delicious fruits. It was a very hot day. The sun had been shining brightly and there was not a scrap of cloud in the sky. A fox had been walking along the outskirts of the village and in the fields, looking for something to eat. The fox
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In a small village, near a forest lived a woodcutter who was very poor but hard-working and honest. He went every morning to cut wood in the nearby forest and sold it in the market to feed his family. He and his family were making great efforts to earn their living and were happy with
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