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Healthy Eating, Conversation

1. What is your favourite way to eat peas?

2. Have you ever grown a plant from a seed? How did it grow?

3. What are some other yummy plant foods you can think of?

Bedtime Story for Kids written by Andrea Kaczmarek

Illustrated by Lee Feld

Book design by Jade Maitre

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Short Story for Kids written by Andrea Kaczmarek

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Healthy Eating, Family, Conversation

1. Bastien cooks lots of different things in this story. Which foods in his kitchen would you like to eat? Why?

2. When Bastien is finished cooking, he likes to share his creations with his family. Why do you think we like to share food as a family?

3. Have you ever cooked something crazy? What was it?

Bedtime story written by Jade Maitre

Illustrated by Dilzoda Hamidjonova

Music Video by mixkit.co

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Friendship, Creativity

1. In this story, Louise and Suzette become friends when Louise helps Suzette to feel better when she is sad. What other things do you think good friends do for one another?

2. Would you like to be a dragonfly? What would you do if you were transformed into one for an hour?

Bedtime story written by Jade Maitre

Illustrations and book design by Mihailo Tatic

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Once upon a time there was a woman who had seven hungry children, and she was baking pancakes for them. There was dough made with new milk, and it lay in the pan, and was rising so plumply and comfortably, that it was a pleasure to watch it. The children stood around it, and their grandfather sat and looked on.

“Give me a little bit of pancake, mother, I’m so hungry!” said one of the children.

“Dear mother!” said the second.

“Dear, sweet mother!” said the third.

“Dear, sweet, good mother!” said the fourth.

“Dear, best, sweet, good mother!” said the fifth.

“Dear, best, sweet, good, dearest mother!” said the sixth.

“Dear, best, sweet, good, dearest, sweetest mother!” said the seventh, and so they all begged around the pancake, one more sweetly than the other, for they were all so hungry and so well-behaved.

“Yes, children, wait until it turns around,” said she—until I have turned it around, she should have said—“then you shall all have a pancake, a lovely best-milk pancake. Just see how fat and comfortable it is lying there!”

When the pancake heard that it was frightened, turned itself around suddenly, and wanted to get out of the pan; but it only fell on its other side, and when this had baked a little, so that it took shape and grew firmer, it leaped out on the floor, and rolled off like a wheel, out of the door, and down the street.

Hey there! The woman was after it with the pan in one hand, and the spoon in the other, as fast as she could, and after her came the children, and last of all, their grandfather came hobbling along.

“Will you wait! Halt! Catch it! Hold it!” they all cried together, and wanted to catch up with it and grab it on the run; but the pancake rolled and rolled, and sure enough, it got so far ahead of them that they could no longer see it, for it had nimbler legs than all of them. After it had rolled a while it met a man.

“Good-day, pancake,” said the man.

“Good-day, Man Tan,” said the pancake.

“Dear, good pancake, don’t roll so fast; but wait a little and let me eat you!” said the man.

“Mother Gray and grandpa I’ve left behind, and the seven squallers, too, you’ll find, so I think I can leave you as well, Man Tan!” said the pancake, and rolled and rolled until it met a hen.

“Good-day, pancake,” said the hen.

“Good-day, Hen Glen,” said the pancake.

“Dear, good pancake, don’t roll so fast, wait a little and I will eat you up!” said the hen.

“Mother Gray and grandpa I’ve left behind, and the seven squallers, too, you’ll find, and Man Tan, so I think I can leave you as well, Hen Glen!” said the pancake, and rolled along the road like a wheel. Then it met a rooster.

“Good-day, pancake,” said the rooster.

“Good-day, Rooster Booster,” said the pancake.

“Dear, good pancake, don’t roll so fast. Wait a little and I will eat you up!” said the rooster.

“Mother Gray and grandpa I’ve left behind, and the seven squallers, too, you’ll find, and Man Tan and Hen Glen, and so I think I can leave you as well, Rooster Booster,” said the pancake, and rolled and rolled as fast as ever it could. And after it had rolled a long time it met a duck.

“Good-day, pancake,” said the duck.

“Good-day, Duck Tuck,” said the pancake.

“Dear, good pancake, don’t roll so fast. Wait a little and I will eat you up!” said the duck.

“Mother Gray and grandpa I’ve left behind, and the seven squallers, too, you’ll find, and Man Tan, and Hen Glen and Rooster Booster, so I think I can leave you as well,” said the pancake, and rolled on as fast as ever it could. After it had rolled a long, long time, it met a goose.

“Good-day, pancake,” said the goose.

“Good-day, Goose Loose,” said the pancake.

“Dear, good pancake, don’t roll so fast. Wait a little and I will eat you up!” said the goose.

“Mother Gray and grandpa I’ve left behind, and the seven squallers, too, you’ll find, and Man Tan and Hen Glen and Rooster Booster and Duck Tuck, and I think I can leave you as well, Goose Loose,” said the pancake, and rolled away.

After it had again rolled for a long, long time, it met a gander.

“Good-day, pancake,” said the gander.

“Good-day, Gander Meander,” said the pancake.

“Dear, good pancake, don’t roll so fast. Wait a little and I will eat you up!” said the gander.

“Mother Gray and grandpa I’ve left behind, and the seven squallers, too, you’ll find, and Man Tan and Hen Glen and Rooster Booster and Duck Tuck and Goose Loose, and I think I can leave you as well, Gander Meander,” said the pancake, and began to roll as fast as ever it could.

After it had rolled a long, long time, it met a pig.

“Good-day, pancake,” said the pig.

“Good-day, Pig Snig,” said the pancake, and began to roll as fast as ever it could.

“Now wait a little,” said the pig. “You need not hurry so, for we can keep each other company going through the forest and take our time, for it is said to be haunted.” The pancake thought that such was quite apt to be the case, and so they started off; but after they had gone a while they came to a brook.

The pig swam across on his own bacon, which was easy enough; but the pancake could not get across.

“Sit down on my snout,” said the pig, “and I will carry you over that way.” The pancake did so.

“Uff, uff!” said the pig, and swallowed the pancake in one mouthful.

“And now, since the pancake no further goes,
This little chronicle comes to a close.”

Fairy tale written by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe

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Courage, Stranger Danger

1. The pancake was very brave to roll away and escape being eaten by so many people and animals. Are there any things in life that you find scary to do, but you try to do them anyway? Do you think it’s good to do this? Why or why not?

2. The pancake trusted the pig when it offered to give it a ride on its snout. But then the pig ate it! What do you think the story is trying to tell us about people we don’t know?

3. How do you think we should decide whether or not to trust others?

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SHORT STORY FOR KIDS WRITTEN BY CRYSTAL WARREN

ILLUSTRATED BY HAYLEY ALONZO

DESIGNED BY RAT WESTERN

EDITED BY NABEELA KALLA

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* THE STORY ‘WHAT IS IN THE POT?’ WAS CREATED BY BOOK DASH AND IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 LICENSE. MINOR FORMATTING CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE TO THE ORIGINAL WORK FOR EASE OF READING ON OUR WEBSITE.

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Healthy Eating

1. Did you know what all the vegetables looked like before Mama described them to Sam?

2. What is your favourite vegetable?

3. What other healthy dinners can be cooked in a pot?

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Conversation

1. Do you like cooking? What do you like about cooking?

Co-operation

1. Kasini and her spoon do not always agree about the best way to cook things. Who do you think is right?

2. Perhaps it is that both Kasini and her spoon bring different things when they cook a meal together. Can you think of what good things Kasini brings? How about the spoon?

Independence

1. Why do you think Kasini sometimes puts in too much pepper or curry, even if she knows it isn’t right?

SHORT STORY FOR KIDS WRITTEN BY LINDA NABASA

ILLUSTRATED BY RAYMOND DIBY

DESIGNED BY RURAMAI MUSEKIWA

EDITED BY NABEELA KALLA

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