What Hideous Creatures

One sunny day, a very forgetful professor got down on a grassy bank and began to look at the insects through his magnifying glass.

Now when the professor left for home, he forgot all about his magnifying glass, so straight away all the insects gethered round.

"This is just the thing we need!" and they jumped for joy.

"Whwn the birds fly down to gobble us up, we'll give them a fright for a chnage!"...and so they did.

The birds had never seen such hideous creatures. They took off squawking with fright and never flew down again.

Adapted from 50 Bedtime Stories: The Perfect Way 

to End Your Day, 2002

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Collin Thinks Big

Collin Caterpillar and Sylvia Snail were crawling along the garden wall one sunny morning.

"Isn't the world big?" remarked Collin as gazed around.

"It's huge, it's enormous" agreed Sylvia, who thought a lot about such things inside her mind.

"It makes me feel so very small, " Collin said.

"But I Know a way to change all that!" said Sylvia wisely.

So the two of them spent the rest of that morning collecting the tiniest things they could find.

Collin collected a crumb, a pea, a shell, and a petal. Soon he had found a feather, a peanut, a button and a berry.

Sylvia brought back a drawing pin, a paper clip, a pen nib, a pin and a needle.

"Look! You're almost a giant Collin!" said Sylvia.

"Funnily enough, how small these things are," chuckled Collin,"and look how big I am!"

Adapted from 50 Bedtime Stories: the Perfect Way 

to End Your Day, 2002

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