Indholdsfortegnelse for March 2025 i Storytime

Along time ago in Japan, there was a castle surrounded by a wide water-filled moat. In the moat grew beautiful lotus flowers, and in the most gorgeous of them all, there lived a firefly princess. Her father was the king of all the fireflies. When the princess was young, she was small and shy, and no light shone in her belly. When she got older, though, her abdomen began to glow with a wonderful light. That was when the creatures who lived around the castle started to notice how beautiful she was. “I wish my belly glowed like hers!” croaked a frog. “I’d turn green with envy if I wasn’t green already!” All the other bugs wanted to be her friend because she looked cool and was a princess. One…

Pip the dodo was looking for tasty roots among the bushes. He dug in the dirt with his three-toed feet and pulled up the tubers with his beak. That was when he heard the sound. It was like the cry of a big seagull! The bird poked his head out of the bushes and blinked his beady eyes. Beyond the bushes was the white sand of the beach. Beyond that was the bluegreen sea. And floating on the sea was… a big wooden island! Now, a little wooden island was floating away from the big wooden island. How odd! On it were creatures that looked like nothing the dodo had ever seen. The strangers stood on two legs like Pip did, but were much taller! The creatures stepped off the…

“It’s been so peaceful since that Pied Piper fellow led them away!” the mayor said. “Oh, yes! No more holes in my cheddar!” agreed the cheesemonger. “They don’t keep me awake with their squeaking!” added little Maria. As the months passed, though, the town seemed a bit too quiet… One morning, the locals were awakened by the sound of wagon-wheels on the street. The vehicle was driven by the Pied Piper! “Oho, the hero returns!” the mayor boomed. “Can you play us a tune?” Maria begged. The mysterious piper brushed dust from his red-and-yellow suit and smiled. "I can do better than that!" A crowd gathered as the man lowered the side of the cart to reveal… rats of all kinds! There were big rats and small rats, fat rats…

A little while ago, a teeny-tiny woman lived in a teeny-tiny village. She had a teeny-tiny cottage with a teeny-tiny garden. One morning, she woke up in her teeny-tiny bed. The sun was shining through her teeny-tiny window! She stretched her teeny-tiny arms. “What a gorgeous day it is! I think I’ll go for a teeny-tiny stroll!” said the teeny-tiny woman. After having a teeny-tiny egg and a teeny-tiny cup of tea, she got ready. The woman put on her teeny-tiny bonnet, picked up her teeny-tiny basket and went out through the teeny-tiny door. She walked down the teeny-tiny high street and past a row of teeny-tiny shops. The teeny-tiny woman thought, “I might buy a teeny-tiny pie.” But instead of stopping, she continued on her teeny-tiny way. Between some…

He watched, fascinated, as the shadows of the buildings crept across the cobblestones. Grantham was a little town in England, but it was the biggest one the boy had ever seen. “Isaac! Hurry up!” His grandmother grabbed his hand and pulled him towards a little shop. In the window were glass jars and bottles of medicine. “You’re going to the King’s School here in town. Mr and Mrs Clark have a room for you to stay in, and you can eat with their family…” “Welcome! Welcome!” said Mr Clark when they came in. He was short and had a cheerful face. He held out his hand to Isaac, but the boy just stared at him. “Sorry!” his granny said. “He grew up in the countryside with just me and the…

One evening, Maui sat by the fire in his family’s home. The boy was curious about the world around him and was always asking questions. As he stared at the flames, he thought, “What would happen if I put out all the fires in the village? What would people do?” Maui couldn’t stop thinking about this. “There is one way to find out!” he decided. Back then, people had no way of starting new fires, so they kept the embers in their homes burning through the night. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t be able to cook or keep warm! When everybody was asleep, Maui sneaked into every house in the village and poured water on the fires. Then, he crept back to his home and went to sleep. In the…

Domingo was a street sweeper who lived in a big, busy city. Every day, he got up before sunrise. The man drank a cup of coffee before wheeling his rubbish cart out into the streets. He swept up any dirt or litter that he found. “It’s humble work, but it makes my city a nicer place!” Domingo thought to himself. When lunchtime came, he sat in a park. It was interesting to watch the different people walk by. He overheard many conversations. “The traffic is awful! I was stuck for hours!” “I wish there were more playgrounds, Mum! I want to run around!” “There’s so much pollution! My granny can’t stop coughing.” One day, as Domingo sat in the park, he saw a cat with purple fur. It stared at…