Indholdsfortegnelse for July 2020 i Storytime

The people upstairs all practise ballet Their living room is a bowling alley Their bedroom is full of conducted tours. Their radio is louder than yours, They celebrate week-ends all the week.When they take a shower, your ceilings leak. They try to get their parties to mix By supplying their guests with Pogo sticks, And when their fun at last abates, They go to the bathroom on roller skates. I might love the people upstairs more If only they lived on another floor. ANSWER: There are 5 cats hiding! COUNT IT Can you count how many cats there are hiding in this scene? Write the number of cats you found in here:…

Romeo was born in a bushy green park in the middle of a very big and busy city. When he was young, his mother made him and his brothers stay safely in their hidden den in the bushes in a quiet corner of the park. As they grew older, Romeo, Balthasar and Benvolio began to venture out into the park and then the streets beyond. This was very exciting for the young foxes because there were so many things to experience. The city smelled of oil and rubbish and fried chicken, and there were cats to chase and tasty things to dig out of rubbish bins. When Romeo and his brothers were seven months old, their mother said it was time for them to leave the den. “You’re big and…

In Germany, there is a little town called Eisenach, and in Eisenach, there lived a brave boy named Helmut. He loved stories about knights and heroes of old and imagined himself to be a mighty warrior. Helmut did not look like one, being a skinny lad, but he liked nothing better than putting on his helmet, strapping on his wooden sword, and leading his friends Felix and Werner on ‘quests’ into the forest. However, one summer’s day during the school holidays, Helmut had a special adventure in mind: they should venture into a narrow chasm outside town called Dragon Gorge, and find the beast that was said to lurk there. “Bring your toy guns,” Helmut said, “and some lunch as well! Who knows how long it may take us to…

Along time ago in the city of Venice, there was a man named Beppo Pipetta. He did not like working very much, so he chose to become a soldier. Beppo soon discovered that being a soldier involved a lot of hard work, so he decided he did not like being a soldier either. To avoid doing his duties, he would sneak away to have a good time in the inns of the city instead. While he was eating a fine meal in one of these inns, Beppo met an old man from a far-off land. “You are a soldier, Beppo Pipetta!” the old man said. “Why do you not have a knapsack?” “Carrying a knapsack is hard work!” said Beppo Pipetta as he finished off his meal. “I prefer to…

How to Play  You’ll need a dice, two or more players and counters for the three foxes. You can download them from: storytimemagazine.com/free Cut out the counters, choose your fox and place the counters on the square marked START. The players take turns rolling a dice and moving their counters that many spaces. If you land on a square that has a letter on it, check the WATCH OUT! box below to find out what happens! Players then take turns rolling the dice, going around the table in a clockwise direction. The player that reaches the highest floor in the Shard first is the winner! WATCH OUT!  A Find a sandwich – roll again! B Shortcut – move forward 2 spaces. C Loose floorboard – go back 2 spaces. D…

The ancient Greeks believed in many gods, but perhaps the strangest of them all is the one they called Pan. Pan’s mother was a wood nymph (a kind of nature spirit), and his father was Hermes, the messenger of the gods. Pan was born with curly hair, an ugly little face, goat’s horns on his forehead, and crooked hairy legs like those of a goat. In fact, he was so ugly that when his mother first saw him, she ran away! Hermes, however, wrapped his son up in a hare’s skin and took him safely to Mount Olympus, the home of the gods. The gods of Olympus were beings of great beauty and power, but they grew to love little Pan because he was always singing and dancing and playing…

1 RUSSIAN RIDDLES See if you are as wise as the little girl in the story by solving these Russian riddles. In Russia, they use Cyrillic script. Use this handy key to decipher the answers to each riddle! 2 THE NOISES UPSTAIRS Which of these objects is NOT used by the neighbours in ‘The People Upstairs’? 3 YOUR OWN MAGIC KNAPSACK! If you had a magic knapsack like Beppo Pipetta’s, what would you want to put in it? Draw it inside the knapsack! 4 MONSTERS OF DRAGON GORGE The dragon might not be the only creature hiding in Dragon Gorge. Can you identify three other creatures by their shadows? 5 FISHY FUN! Can you unscramble the names of these creatures from ‘Moon River Melody’ and match them with the…