Innehållsförteckning för November 2025 från Storytime

The liquid changed before his eyes! “Interesting!” he purred to himself. “Adding water seems to make this stuff more solid. How strange!” The cat carefully wrote down the names of the chemicals he'd used and what he'd done to them in his notebook. Just then, a big, furry face pushed in front of him and sniffed the dish curiously. “Hi, Harold, what are you doing? That smells weird! What do you call this stuff?” “Get away from me, silly! You'll get hair and drool in my experiment!” Harold hissed. Sophie the dog looked a bit hurt. “I only wanted to see what you were doing!” she said, scratching her ear with a paw. “I'm trying to find a new plastic that we can use to make plane windows. I'm experimenting…

1 STUCK TOGETHER Oh, no! Harold's glass containers are stuck together! How many are there in total? 2 POWERFUL PREFIXES ML knew that words could be powerful enough to change the world! Can you help him make these negative words into positive ones by removing the prefixes? Follow the example below: UNFAIR IMPATIENT UNHAPPY DISAGREE IRRESPONSIBLE ILLOGICAL Bonus challenge: Do you know what each of these words means? 3 CONVERSATION STARTERS The elephant wants to make friends with more animals, and she's thought of nice things to say. But which one will work for each animal? 4 HEAVY LIFTERS Knos and his friends had a contest to see who could lift the heaviest pile of rocks. Can you work out which heap is the heaviest? 5 MAKE A SPACE HELMET Here's…

There was just one problem - she was all alone! No other elephants lived nearby. One day, the elephant decided to make new friends. “It's no good moping. I'll get out there and meet some other animals!” she thought. As she stomped through the trees, her footsteps made the ground shake. “You're making too much noise!” screeched a monkey on a branch. The elephant quickly apologised. “Sorry about that – I'll try to tiptoe from now on! By the way, would you like to be my friend?” The monkey frowned as he looked down at the elephant. “You don't have a tail and are too big and heavy to swing through the trees. Why would I want to hang out with you?” The elephant sighed and went away without saying…

GLUE OR ADHESIVE? ‘Adhesive’ is the word for things that are used to stick things together. ‘Glues’ are adhesives that are used for many everyday tasks. This sticky stuff has all sorts of uses, but what is glue and how does it work? SUPER FACT: Did you know that superglue can save lives? In emergencies, doctors can use it to stop bleeding or even close wounds. Amazing! WHAT WON'T IT STICK TO? Superglue won't work on everything! It doesn't bond well to dirty or oily surfaces. It also doesn't stick to certain plastics like polypropylene, polyethylene or Teflon. TYPES OF ADHESIVE Humans have come up with lots of different ways of sticking things together. Here are just some of them… NATURAL ADHESIVES: Sticky substances like beeswax, tar and tree sap.…

Though the birds were good company, the lady often felt lonely. “It would be nice to have someone to talk to!” she sighed. One day, the lady went out to get firewood. While looking for twigs under a bush, she found a very large egg. “How strange!” she thought. The lady took it home with her and put it in the goose's nest. “Can you keep it warm?” she asked the goose as she stroked its neck. When she went to check on the egg the next morning, it hatched! The old lady was surprised to see a healthy baby boy pop out. “Oh, what a sweetie! I think I'll call you ‘Knos’!” the woman said. She wrapped him in a woollen blanket and gave him some milk. The baby…

“I must be the luckiest boy in the world!” he thought. “I'm going to learn fun things today… and I'll show my friends my birthday present!” At playtime, he took out his new toy car and presented it to Klaus, Brita and Peter. “Look how shiny it is!” he said proudly. Klaus and Peter were impressed, but Brita wasn't. “It's pretty good, but it can only go on the ground! My kite is much better. It can soar through the air!” Hans had to admit she was right. He asked if she would trade her kite for his car, and she agreed! When lunchtime came, Hans ran up and down the playground with his new kite. He couldn't work out how to make it fly! “You're not having much luck…

The girl looked out of the window. The sun was dipping towards the horizon, and its light painted the neighbourhood in red and gold. Then, Paige saw it. A strange object with flashing lights on it was floating over Blackwood Hill! As she watched, it disappeared behind the trees. Paige couldn't imagine what it was! Opening her laptop, she pinged a message to her best friend. Paige324: HEY MITCH, ARE YOU THERE? MitchellMeow: HI PAIGE, WHAT'S UP? Paige324: DID YOU SEE THAT GLOWING THING OVER BLACKWOOD HILL? WEIRD! MitchellMeow: NO! WHAT DO YOU THINK IT WAS? Paige324: SOME KIND OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT? MitchellMeow: WEIRD! SHOULD WE REPORT IT? Paige giggled when she read that. Mitch was always so cautious! Paige324: WHY LET SOMEONE ELSE FIND IT FIRST? LET'S RIDE…

Her mum said, “You can go… if you sweep the house first!” So Elowen grabbed a twig broom and began sweeping the floor of the little stone cottage. As she cleaned, she twirled around and sang to herself. Granny was sitting in the kitchen. Her needles went click-click-click as she knitted woollen yarn into a jumper for Elowen's father. “Where are you going this evening, dearie?” she asked. “There's a party in St Neot!” Elowen said excitedly. “I'll wear my best dress!” Granny nodded. “Make sure you're home before midnight. Remember what happened to Anne, who stayed out too late!” Granny recited a little poem in a sing-song voice. “Jack-the-lantern, Joan-the-wad, That tickled the maid and made her mad, Light me home, the weather's bad.” Elowen sighed. Granny knew stories…

One day, Kausalya came to her husband with good news. “I will soon give birth to a child!” The king was very happy! He held feasts and festivals so that the people of Kosala could celebrate the birth of their new prince. When the baby boy was born, the king held him in his arms. “What a handsome son we have!” he told his wife. She smiled at him. “He needs a good name. How about ‘Rama’?” The king thought that was perfect! The young prince had everything anyone could ever want. He lived in a marble palace and played in leafy gardens filled with fruit trees. In his bedroom, he had toys of all kinds that were made of gold, silver and precious stones. One evening, his mother fed…