This is one of the bed time stories for my elder son Dhanvi.
This is my childhood text book story. Converted slightly for young boy’s purpose.
There is one big forest & one big bad lion. It is bad because it kills all animals. Since it is strong animal, no animal can fight with him. So all animals decide & go to him & say, lion don’t kill all of them. We will make turns & per day one animal will come to your home & u can eat. No more hunting for you. Bad lion accept it. Because it don’t have to run & fight with others. So per agreement, animal makes turns.
At first “A” like alligator, “B” like bear etc…. (I will try go with alphabet sequence. For most of the alphabets, he will say the animals.) When finally it is rabbits turn. Rabbitt is small animal but it is clever animal. So rabbit thinks, thinks and finally goes to bad lion home very late.
Bad lion is very hungry and angrily says why you are so late?
Then rabbit says “I saw another lion on the ways. It took lot of time to escape from that one”
Then lion says ‘Another lion in this forest? I am the king” Show me where it is?
Then rabbit takes him to one old well & says “it is in that well”
Bad lion climbs the well wall & sees inside.
I will ask Dhanvi what bad lion will see? He say a loud, its image.
Now story continues as
“Bad lion is strong but not clear” So it think that is another lion inside well.
So it says “I am the king of the forest. So surrender me else I will kill you”
But the same words comes back.
So angrily bad lion jumps in to well & what happens to bad lion?”
Dhanvi says “bad lion chachipoyiii." (Telugu word for "killed")
I will ask him why? He says “bad lion don’t know swimming” &
he continues " But I am learning. Now I am at ell stage."
(He remembers his swimming level.)
Normally I will stress him about “alphabets and animals” You have to be clever like rabbit. Think, think etc. Later swimming stuff. It is fun.
Slowly we move to another story.
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