Indholdsfortegnelse for August 2020 i Storytime

Pop! Pop! Poppetty-pop! Shake and rattle and rattle and shake The golden grains as they bounce and break To fluffy puffiness – poppetty-pop! Bursting and banging the popper’s top! Poppetty-pop! Pop! Pop! The yellow kernels, oh, see them grow White as cotton or flakes of snow! Pop! Pop! O-ho, how they frolic and fly about And turn themselves suddenly inside out! Pop-pop-poppetty! Pop-pop-pop! The popper’s full and we’ll have to stop; Pile the bowl with the tempting treat, Children, come, it is time to eat! POP IT! Go to our site storytimemagazine.com/free to download recipes that will make your popcorn extra-fancy!…

How to Play To get started, you need two or more players, four dice and Mountain Counters from storytimemagazine.com/free . Cut out Tongariro, Taranaki, Tauhara and Pütauaki, plus the ten tokens for each player to represent how much strength their mountain has. WHAT IS THE AIM OF THE GAME? The aim of the game is to be the last mountain standing in the space in the middle of the board – the mountain who is in that space at the end of the game wins, and marries Puhanga. WHO GOES FIRST? The youngest player gets to put his counter in middle spot on the board. (Whoever is in the middle space on the board is called ‘King of the Hill’.) The other players put their counters on the other spaces. Players…

It was a dark and stormy night in Storyland. The wind was howling, sending the leaves flying everywhere, and branches hit the windows, making creepy noises. The Storylanders tried to sleep, but they kept being awakened by the noise of the storm. The Three Little Pigs were terrified, and even Sleeping Beauty had trouble dropping off. As if that wasn’t bad enough, many Storylanders had the strange feeling that someone was spying on them during the night! Pinocchio, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel were sure they saw a shadow hovering outside their windows. Jack kept a light on that night: as a guitar player in a rock band, he was used to loud noises, but the howling of the wind and the tap-tap-tap of branches against the windows made him nervous!…

In the country of Brazil there is a beautiful city beside a great lazy river, in the middle of the deep and dark rainforest. A young man named Alonzo came to the city one day, looking for work. He had come from the countryside, and he was amazed by the charming old stone houses of the town, overgrown with flowers, as well as the happy people who lived there. He was particularly enchanted by the pretty girls who called it their home. With the coming of the cool autumn season, the city held a great festival, with much feasting and dancing. On the day of the feast, he saw one girl with bright eyes and curly dark hair who was wearing a colourful dress. The way she danced captured Alonzo’s…

Long ago, in the land of Greece, there lived an elderly woman who was very lonely, for she had no children. One day, she prayed to the Sun to give her a child. The Sun answered her, saying, “I will give you a child – but in return, you must give her to me when she is twelve years old.” The woman agreed, and soon gave birth to a daughter with red-gold hair. The woman named her Letiko and loved her dearly. They were so happy together that the woman forgot all about the promise she had made to the Sun, until Letiko’s twelfth birthday came near. The day before her twelfth birthday, Letiko went out to gather wild herbs. When she returned, she said, “Mother! I met a man…

1 ESCAPE THE STORM Can you find the right path to take the tanuki, the hare, the salamander and the Japanese macaque to safety 2 SPOT IT! The kids have left popcorn bags all over the puzzle pages! How many are there? Colour the sweetcorn here once you have spotted them all. 3 MYSTERIOUS PIECES Oh no! Someone has broken this picture from ‘The Mysterious Wind’ into several pieces. Can you work out which of these extra pieces go in the there, and which are not needed? 4 MOUNTAIN FACES Draw a face on this shape to create your own mythical mountain! 5 MAKE A SUNCATCHER! Welcome back the summer sun by making a cool suncatcher to decorate your window! It’s inspired by our ‘Sunchild’ story. • You will need…