Indholdsfortegnelse for November/December 2024 i Ladybug Stories, Poems, and Songs Magazine for Young Kids and Children

1. Roger looks lonely. I think he needs some pebbles for the bottom of his bowl. Or maybe he wants some feathery ferns to swim around in. 2. I’ll get him some great big rocks to hide behind and a giant clam to blow bubbles for him. Maybe even a castle and a treasure chest to explore. 3. Look, Roger, it’s a deep-sea diver. And here’s a mermaid to keep the diver company. Careful, don’t let him get the treasure! 4. Still lonely, Roger? Wait! I know what Roger needs! Stay right there, Roger. 5. Roger, this is Agatha. And this is Simon. And this is Bernadette. 6. There! Look at Roger now. He’s surrounded by friends—and a mermaid, a deep-sea diver, a treasure chest, a castle, a clam, rocks,…

Maya is at the post office with Grandpa. They are sending a package of delicious butterscotch cookies to her cousin, Jacob. Maya and Grandpa made the cookies together, and she decorated the box with special stickers. When they get to the counter, a nice woman named Vivian weighs the package and puts a shipping label on it. Grandpa pays for the postage. Maya wonders how the cookies will get to Jacob. “Will somebody drive them all the way to his house?” she asks Vivian. Maybe she could go, too! Vivian tells Maya what she would see if she could follow the package on its way. In the back of the post office, it will travel on a moving belt . . . . . . through a machine that can…

As he lay awake one night, Bebeto could hear his parents discussing his sister Ana’s birthday. It was just two days away. Birthdays were always a lot of fun, even though there was no money for store-bought gifts. Nearly all of the toys he and his sister had were homemade. There was nothing wrong with that, he knew. Like many families in this part of Brazil, they were poor. This birthday would be different, though. Ana was older now, and he’d seen how her eyes lit up when she saw the new doll at Zulma’s Presentes, a neighborhood store just down the road from their house. How he longed for her to have it! An idea finally came to him just before he drifted off to sleep. After a quick…