Indholdsfortegnelse for March 2017 i Storytime

Little Green Crocodile was getting ready for the annual jungle roller disco. He had polished his scales, painted his claws and washed his favourite silver suit, which was drying on the line. “I might just have a little snooze to give me some energy for later,” he decided and, with a big yawn, he fell asleep under a tree in the warm summer sun. Some time later, a funny, fluttery noise woke Little Green Crocodile and after a good stretch he went to see if his precious silver suit was dry. But it was gone! “Where could it have gone to?” exclaimed Little Green Crocodile. “It doesn’t normally wander off on its own,” he thought. So he went next door to see if Zebra had seen it. Zebra was busy…

Deep in the beautiful Korean countryside, there was a little village where everything was calm and peaceful – except for when the tiger that lived in the hills above the village was bad-tempered. When the tiger was in a bad mood, her roar was so loud and so terrible that it shook the houses and made everyone quake with fear. When people heard the tiger roar like this, they rushed inside, locked their doors and hid away. One day, the tiger had been roaring rather a lot, because she couldn’t find any food. She was hungry and grumpy and so desperate for something to eat that she decided to creep down the hill into the little village and look for dinner. As she quietly padded down the pathways and stalked…

1 BEAST’S SECRET MESSAGE Help Beauty solve this picture puzzle and discover a hidden message from Beast in the coloured squares. 2 COOL CAMEL Use this grid as your guide to draw the other half of the camel’s face, then colour it in! 3 GO FISHING The otters have lost the head and tail of their fishy dinner. See if you can spot them in our Playbox pages before Mr Jackal eats them. Colour in this fish when you’ve found them! 4 WHO IS IT? Three animals are hiding behind our jungle disco mirror ball. Can you work out who they are? Write their names below. WHO’S MISSING? Follow the clues to work out which animal from Crocodile’s Silver Suit is missing from behind the mirror ball. 5 HOW MANY…

It was almost dinnertime for Mr and Mrs Jackal, and Mrs Jackal announced that she had a craving for fish. “Melt-in-the-mouth, fresh and tasty,” she sighed. “It’s such a shame we don’t like going in the water.” “Don’t you worry,” said Mr Jackal, who was craftier than a fox and wilier than a wolf. “I’ll get us some fish. You just wait and see.” And he slinked away through the bushes, hoping to steal a fisherman’s catch. When Mr Jackal reached the river, he saw two sleek otters on the bank, staring intently at the water as it flowed by. “There!” cried one, pointing out a giant fish with its paw. “It’s huge!” In a flash, the otter dived into the water and caught the fish by the tail. But…

Farmer Jack was busy working in his fields one day when he heard whistling and a strange tap-tap-tapping sound coming from the hedgerow. “What can it be?” wondered Jack, and he put down his scythe and went to investigate. He followed the whistle and the tapping all the way to the bushes, where he found a little man making a shoe. He was tapping at the sole with a tiny hammer. The man was no higher than Jack’s knee, and he had a shock of bright red hair, a red beard, and mischief in his eyes. He wore a smart green hat and a suit, and he was whistling a merry tune. The little man was a leprechaun, of course – and Jack knew it right away. Now Jack remembered…

How to Play You need two dice and two players for this game. Also print off our Leprechaun Game Counters from storytimemagazine.com/fre e. Before you begin, choose whether you want to be the Sun L eprechaun or the Moon L eprechaun. The aim of the game is to place a counter on every one of your coloured circles – see below! • Position your game counters at the START and choose a player to roll first. • Player 1 rolls two dice and adds up the numbers. • If you’re the Sun L eprechaun, you can only place counters on the red numbered circles. • If you’re the Moon L eprechaun, you can only place counters on the yellow numbered circles. • If you roll a number that belongs to you, place a…