Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2018 i Storytime

The tide is out and all the strandIs glistening in the summer sun.Let’s build a castle from the sand,Won’t it be such brilliant fun? With walls and ramparts wide and steep,Around the edge, we’ll dig a moat,And in the middle stands our keep,Where, from the top, our flag will float.And where the drawbridge ought to be,We’ll make a pathway to the shore,Well paved with stones by you and me.We’ll fill our buckets up, then pour. We’ll sit within our citadelAnd watch the tide creep ever near,But we have built our castle well,With battlements! We have no fear. The waves surge in and fill the moat.We watch the siege from tower high.Perhaps we should have built a boat,But, no! “We will not fall!” we cry. “Haul down your flag!” “Oh, no!”…

Once upon a time, there were four little children called Violet, Slingsby, Guy and Lionel who decided they would like to sail around the world, so they bought a large boat. The boat was blue with green spots, and the sail was yellow with red stripes. When they set off, all they took with them was a small cat to steer and look after the boat, an elderly Quangle-Wangle to cook dinner and make tea, and a large kettle. For the first ten days they sailed beautifully and found plenty of fish to eat. All they had to do was scoop them out of the sea with a long spoon, and the Quangle-Wangle cooked them. The cat got the leftovers and the whole party was very happy. At night, they…

Many hundreds of years ago, a noble knight called Siegfried was riding through the forest when he heard the most wonderful melody. Siegfried steered his horse in the direction of the song and soon reached a clearing at the edge of a cliff, where he found a castle in ruins. Sitting among the ruins was a beautiful lady. Her hair tumbled to the ground and she was dressed in green with a veil across her face. Even through the veil, Siegfried was enchanted by her otherworldly beauty and captivated by her hypnotic voice. The lady was Melusine – the magical daughter of a fairy and a king who had both died many years before – and Siegfried was bewitched by her. He couldn’t take his eyes away, but when Melusine…

In the time before cars and trains, a rich traveller had to undertake a long journey across the desert, so he paid for a fine horse to carry him and a guide to help him reach his destination. As was the tradition in those days, the guide walked along with the horse, steering it in the right direction and keeping a watchful eye on the map. He also shared the horse’s load, carrying the food supplies in a heavy backpack. They had a great distance to cover and the day was hot before they set out, but it wasn’t until the traveller and his guide stepped out from the cool shade of the city walls that they realised just how burning the heat was. Beads of sweat trickled down their…

How to Play To play, you need two or more players. Download your Narwhal Tusks from our website at storytimemagazine.com/free , then print them out and decorate them. Remember to write your name on the back! Before you begin, press some sticky tack to the back of each narwhal tusk. Decide which player will go first and make sure he or she wears a blindfold. No peeking! Spin the player around three times and then point him or her in the direction of this page. You could place it on a table or pin it up on the wall. The player sticks the tusk as close to where they think it should be as possible. Each player takes a turn to stick on their narwhal tusks. The player whose tusk is…

Early one evening, after a long fishing trip with his brothers, Maui was trying to repair their broken nets, but the sun had dipped below the horizon and, apart from the fire, everything was dark. “How are we supposed to get our jobs done when it gets dark so early?” sighed Maui, squinting at the nets. “We were up at the break of dawn and there’s still not enough daylight to complete our chores.” His brothers agreed. They were used to moaning about how quickly the darkness came. It was impossible to finish anything. “Enough is enough!” said Maui. “I’m going to catch the sun and force it to move more slowly.” His brothers laughed. “Don’t be so ridiculous! You’ll be burnt alive. You’ll be crushed. Nobody can catch the…