Innehållsförteckning för June 2017 från Storytime

Olivia and her mum are superheroes. Last month, they battled the scary sea witch’s gigantic jellyfish down at the beach. Last week, they protected the world from Martian attack. Yesterday, they destroyed Doctor Doolally’s rampaging robot zoo. Today, they are going to the shops. “Boring!” said Olivia. “Even superheroes need to go to the shops,” said Mum. “Get your boots on, it’s time to fly.” All superheroes do their shopping at Superhero Supermarket. It sells capes, costumes, cars, gadgets, and super-powered breakfast cereals with tiny robot toys inside – it is amazing! To normal people, like you and I, the Superhero Supermarket would probably be the most fantastic place in the world. To superheroes, it’s as exciting as any normal supermarket. So, not exciting at all. The shelves in Superhero…

Once upon a time, there was an enchantress who lived in a crumbling old castle, deep in the woods. Everybody around those parts had heard of the enchantress, but nobody had ever seen her, because she transformed into an owl whenever she left the castle. Nobody dared to go near the castle, because it was said that the enchantress had cast a spell on the woods around it. Any young man who went within one hundred paces of the castle was turned into a statue, and any young lady was transformed into a songbird and kept by the enchantress as her pet. Now, there were two young people who had heard these rumours, but they were just too in love to pay any attention to them. They were called Jorinde…

How to Play To play, you’ll need a dice. You can print out our Bonnie and Boo Game Counters at www.storytimemagazine.com/free . You need one counter for each player. Decide who will go first. Player 1 rolls the dice and moves his or her counter forward the correct number of spaces. If you land on a giraffe, climb up its neck and take a shortcut across the board. If you land on a gecko – bad luck! You’ll have to slide all the way down again. If you land on a Rhyme It! square, you need to think up a word to rhyme with the animal pictured on it, or you miss your next turn. You have 10 seconds to think up a rhyming word. Take it…

We’re here at the zoo with Bonnie and Boo And first stop today is a great big Gnu! An African antelope that looks like a cow, Some people call it a wildebeest now. There are two gnu types: the blue and the black, Both have curved horns and a humpy back. A blue gnu? It really is true! Now let’s say hello to its neighbour. “Yoo-hoo! Hello up there, friend, does your neck ever end? As you reach to eat leaves, we see it extend!” The Giraffe is the tallest mammal on earth, Their babies are taller than humans at birth! They have extra-long tongues, coloured purple or blue, And short hairy horns called ossicones, too. They can sleep for just thirty minutes a day, But when they’re awake, Giraffes…

Many summers ago, hard times had befallen the Lakota people of North America, so all seven Sioux tribes came together to make campfires and work out what to do. Every day, one chief sent out his best scouts to hunt for game and, every day, the scouts came back empty-handed. There wasn’t a scrap to eat, and the people were starving and running out of hope. One morning, it was the turn of Chief Standing Bear to send out his scouts. “Have the eyes of a hawk and the speed of a horse,” he told them. “Our people must eat today.” The two young scouts set off for the hills with their bows and arrows. They were determined to bring back some food, but they walked for many hours without…

In olden times in Nigeria, there was a powerful shaman called Fara Maka, who had three special talents. He could talk to the spirits, control nature, and heal people. Fara Maka knew all there was to know about the natural world and he passed on his knowledge and his magic to his only daughter, Nana Miriam, who remembered every word he said. When Fara Maka was busy, Nana Miriam would sneak away to a secret place in the forest and practise her magical arts – and she was good, even more powerful than her father. However, nobody knew this yet. One harvest-time, Fara Maka and Nana Miriam were woken early by the wails and cries of their people. “Oh no!” they howled, pointing at their crops. “What shall we do?”…