Indholdsfortegnelse for May/June 2022 i Ladybug Stories, Poems, and Songs Magazine for Young Kids and Children

“Ready to pick lychees, Hannah?” Daddy asks as we pull into my grandmother’s driveway. “Ready.” I smile and scramble from the car. Clunk! Daddy closes his car door. He strolls to the lychee tree in my grandmother’s front yard. “Hello, Family Tree,” Daddy says, patting its trunk. There Daddy goes, treating that tree like it’s a person. I’m giggling at Daddy when the screen door opens and my grandmother pops out into the Florida sunshine. I call her “Nainai,” a Chinese word for “Grandma.” Nainai used to live in China, in a province called Guangdong. That’s where she learned to grow lychees. Nainai smiles and tugs on her baseball cap. The cap hides her short hair, which looks like the black bristles in my hairbrush. “Hungry for lychees, Hannah?” Nainai…

Buddy napped in the noonday sun. His furry golden belly faced the blue sky. His four legs stuck straight up like fuzzy fence posts. Crrrunch! Crrrackle! Crrrunch! Buddy’s eyelids popped open. What was that noise? A befuddled Buddy flopped over. Crrrunch! Crrrackle! Crrrunch! The noise came from somewhere in the grass, and it was growing louder. Buddy stuck his wet nose into the crisp grass and began pushing a pathway toward the strange sound. His nose plowed farther and farther into the grass. Suddenly Buddy jumped back. Something was marching toward him. It was a long parade of something. Something tiny . . . Something tiny and noisy . . . A long parade of something very tiny and very noisy. A parade of ants! Buddy blinked his eyes. The…

Some one came knocking At my wee small door. Some one came knocking, I’m sure, sure, sure. I listened, I opened, I looked to left and right, But naught there was a-stirring In the still dark night. Only the busy beetle Tap-tapping in the wall, Only from the forest The screech owl’s call, Only the cricket whistling While the dewdrops fall, So I know not who came knocking At all, at all, at all. How many gentle creatures can you find in this picture?…