ABC Alarm 1 E-Book

Susi Müller

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 123

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

World First Surprise for every reader. One speaks with the letters, friendship and help are necessary in this new great danger. Never before have had the letters had such fear and problems. Can the children help? Take a look, maybe you would like to help. Have Fun

Leseprobe

A Complete Alphabet Story

Table of contents:

Each letter is followed by its own story

Letter E

Letter H

The letter X

Letter Y

Letter P and O

Letter K

Letter U

Letter W

Letter J

Letter R and S

Letter V

Letter G

Letter T

Letter B

Letter C

Letter F

Letter Q

Letter D

Letter L

Letter Z

Letter N

Letter M

Letter i

Please go to Book 2

It was Sophia´s turn. She hopped on her left foot, on the fourth square of the hopscotch. Standing on the edge of the hopscotch, Johann called 4, 5, 6, loudly as Sophia hopped happily from square to square.

“Fifteen, you win!” Johann shouted, “You got more

points than I did. Let‘s stop. What should we do now?

"OK, let’s go visit my mom." answered Sophia.

Her mom worked in a book shop around the corner. They often made short visits to her there. So off they went.

A few minutes later, Johann held the door knob in his outstretched hand. Suddenly, he stopped; surprised that he should hear a loud unknown sound coming from the shop! From the reading corner through the sales room, he could hear a strict, loud and very vigorous voice urging. "All letters must be taken down! Everything must go! This is the hottest place in the shop for books on the top 10 list. So we can sell more when they’re placed here. We must improve the turnover, that’s the reason I’m here. These are only letters, they aren’t interesting to anyone, and everybody knows them." He waved his hand casting a strict gaze around the room at everyone.

Ever since Sophia could remember, there were beautiful large alphabet letters sitting on the wall shelves.

With a serious face, Peter the apprentice, hurried to obey the command. He brought a very large box and quickly began to fill it with the beautiful alphabet letters. However his arms were too short to reach the top letters, so he had to use a ladder.

In that moment, Sophia’s mom met them as she was coming down the stairs from the first floor. She had an unreadable expression on her face. She said to Sophia: “It would be better if you both leave right away. The new managing director is on the war path today and it would be better if he doesn’t see you. The letters in the reading corner must be removed, because now he wants the top 10 books from the best-seller list placed there. He thinks he must prove that he can make more sales here in the book shop." With a small hand movement, she turned around and left.

When opening the door, Johann felt the cool atmosphere in the shop. So it happened, that he was still standing in the open doorway with the open door knob in his hand as Peter came through the door with a large box. Stepping quickly, with a serious look on his face, his body bent forward in a stoop, in passing, Peter yelled back the words. “I‘m bringing the letters to the garden shed!” Sophia‘s gaze wandered in astonishment to Johann. He not only held the entrance door open, but also his mouth. Coming here was not the best idea. The mood was “oh, ho," really bad. Without a word, it was clear that they would follow Peter out the door.

In the backyard, Peter put the box down in front of the garden shed. The next disappointment came, when he put his hand in his pants pocket “Oh, no!” He said, “I’ve forgotten the key!” He thought for a moment, and then he decided. He knew had to bring the other boxes anyway, so he left the box in front of the hut and went to get them. Later he would just put it inside with the others. With that he turned on his heels and rushed back into the shop.

At the same moment, a loud voice called down from the neighboring house; “Johann, come up here right away! Do you think I’m going to clean this room on my own? Come on, hurry up!" Johann looked up to the window where he saw his Brother David standing.

Turning to Sophia he said, “This is bad. He means serious business’ have to go. Our father told us yesterday that we had to tidy our room today, or else! So I have to go. See you later, Bye Bye.”

"Ok.” Sophia said. “Then I’m going home too."

Johann looked back to the window. David waved him to come up, certain that Johann had understood. Quickly as they went their own ways, both called, “see you later." Then they left, each to their own doorway.

*

The next day, the two walked together home from school, cutting as usual through the back yard. In passing, Sophia thought she heard someone calling for help. She hadn’t been paying attention, so she thought she may have only imagined it. Oh, but then she heard, "please, help me!"

Sophia turned Johann, "What did you say? Why should I help you?"

He looked at her blankly, “I didn’t say anything."

"Hello," could now be heard clearly. "Hello!"

"You see, it wasn’t me!" Johann said.

"But who is it then?” Sophia asked, “There is nobody here, except the two of us."

"It’s coming from over there by the garden house," replied Johann.

Slowly, carefully, they both approached, putting their arms around each other to protect themselves.

Crack, Bang. Frightened, what was that?

Oh, letting out their breath, Sophia had only stepped on a small dry branch. Silence, both concentrated very hard.

"Hello, please, please help me! Please come over here to me!"

With big eyes, Sophia said, "this isn‘t possible. There‘s a letter lying on the ground.” After a short pause of silence she says. “But it can’t say anything."

"Hello, yes, yes, I can talk."

With eyes and mouth wide opened, Johann said very slowly, "Whoa."

"Tell me, how did you get here?" Sophia asked.

The A said, "You were here yesterday, when the new manager had us thrown out! You followed along with Peter when he put us down here."

Nodding her head in agreement Sophia said, "Yes, that’s right, but?"

Quickly A replayed: "But, Peter forgot us! He didn’t come back with the key to the garden shed. Some children came and used us to play with! We got caught on branches and hurt ourselves. Others grabbed us as they ran by and sent us flying again. We fell heavily on stones and sharp edges. That’s how my body got ripped and dirty! Yes,” A took a deep breath, “we were thrown up, down, over, high above the trees. We flew every which way in great confusion. It was like a great battle field and a lot of fun for the children, but great pain and fear for us. I’m still feeling ill. They took all the others with them! Because my body is so damaged, someone threw me on the ground for the rubbish.”

He cried, “You’re so nasty, I don’t want you anymore! “

Sophia took the A carefully in her hands and held it up to look it over…

“Oh, careful, careful,” said the A, “I am quite torn, dented very deeply and ripped raggedly. I have bad pains everywhere."

Johann, "You called us for help, but how can we help you?"

Sophia, "Yes, should we glue you back together with a glue stick?"

"No, no, no“, said the A quickly despite its strong pain, “no glue!" It was so shocked, that in addition to his pain, it began to tremble.

Sophia felt the trembles from A‘s body. "Tell me A, Why are you so afraid of glue?"

The A, with a hint of fear in its voice, and at the end of its strength. It said softly "Yes, please, be careful. Danger! Danger! Glue is our enemy it means the end for us. Our forms need to be flexing able so we can be copied. Only through tracing can we gain power and strength, so that everyone can always use us everywhere. If you repair me with glue I won’t be flex able anymore; I won’t be able to move.

Then if a child wants to trace me I can’t be active anymore. This means that the child will not see me anymore. However, I need the love of children to continue living. When they trace my form, I have motion and the children have movement. This is good for all of us. Together we will become stronger."

"Yes,” said Johann, “I can understand that. But how can we help you? What can we do?"

“Look,” said the A, “you have your school bag with you. With paper and pencil you can save me. Just trace my form."

Immediately, Johann stretched out his arm in the direction of his school bag. “I’ll do it right now," he said, taking pencil and paper in his hand, while also giving some to Sophia.

Slowly, carefully, Sophia laid A in the grass." I‘ll lay you down and trace your form."

“Yes, please, please!” Said A, “my strength is getting less and less every minute!” It was plain to see that it was getting weaker and weaker; it’s voice only a hint, hardly hearable.

“Should we draw a capitals or a small letters?" asked Sophia.

“Whatever you want,” answered the A, “I can make both capitals and small letters."

“Then one of us should trace a capital, and the other a small letter." Johann suggested.

"That would be the very best!” replied A “You trace the small letter and she can do the capital letter. But please, please, please begin! I’m getting weaker by the minute; the weakness is over taking me.”

"Come on Sophia, let‘s write!" Johann said impatiently.

They knelt on the meadow, A lying in front of them, tracing the letters in large and small.

“Oh, please be careful!” said A “Please go slowly, everything in me is broken. Oh, that hurts. Can you hear me, how everything in me is creaking?"

With a serious face, Sophia and Johann nodded understandingly.

“We must trace very slowly," agreed Sophia.

“Yes slowly and tenderly," agreed Johann.

They continued to write carefully on the sheet of paper. They heard the cracking, as well as the creaking in Letter A. This was something they had never heard before in a letter. It took some time, but slowly the noises were getting weaker.

Breathing deeply A said, “Thank you both. I just escaped the greatest danger of becoming rigid."

“What would have been so bad if you had become rigid?” Asked Johann, “You only hung on the wall in the reading corner of the book shop?"

At once A‘s eyes became large, opening up wide, one eye on the left hand side and one on the right-hand side of its shape.

Knocked off his socks again, Johann breathed surprisedly, “Whoa."

Sophia felt it. She looked up interestingly from her writing, glancing over to A." Oh, you have eyes?” she exclaimed “This is something I have never seen before, although my mom has worked for a long time in the book shop."

“And I have a mouth too! Said the A," that shows we are the beginning of all letters. Only the starting ABC can see, feel, taste, smell and know everything there is in the world. This is the reason why we are not allowed to be repaired with glue. Our body would get hard, rigid or inflexible preventing us from creating new stories, games or ideas. We wouldn’t be able to pass on anything to the other letters in our letter language or even talk to each other. Everything would then always be the same, nothing new would ever happen.” A’s face was very serious, with lines under its eyes, the corners of its mouth turned down in a frown. ”When we can no longer talk to each other, it will be very quiet in the world. For us to survive, we need help from all the children of the whole world. As often as possible, they should use our letters and keep us strong and flexible." It said.

Sophia answered fast, “Yes, well, I shall now continue to write. I mean I’ll continue to trace your shape."

"Yes, me too!" answered Johann quickly.

So they both continued writing, kneeling on the ground.

For a while they were very busy. Then A spoke again," Hello!!! I’m feeling much better now. Thank you!"

“Should we stop writing now? Asked Sophia concerned. “But I could still write more if you need it."

"Yes, me too,” Johann said. “I have staying power!"

A answered, "Now, the real problem is; is that I can‘t survive alone. To continue to exist, I need my friends, the other letters! I don‘t know where they are.”

Sophia and Johann answered at the same time, "We’ll help you find them!"

“But how will you do that?" Asked A.

The three looked at each other for a long time. The big eyes of A moving slowly, questionly from Sophia to Johann.

Astonished, Johann said wonderingly to Sophia, “that’s right! How are we supposed to do that?"

Shaking her head back and forth, pondering the problem, she said. “First we must talk with all our friends and people we know."

Questionly Johann asked, "Where or by whom should we start?"

The question was answered immediately. A loud, slightly angry voice called, " Sophia, what in the world have you been doing for so long down in the courtyard? Please come in, your food is getting cold and I must go to work soon."

"It‘s best we go in quickly now," answered Johann. He looked up to his bedroom window. Behind the window pane his brother waved down to them. "Look, David is already wavering to me from the window." He waved back and nodded that he had understood and would be coming right up.

Carefully Sophia picked up the letter A and said, “You heard my mom, I have to go in to eat. I‘ll take you in with me to our apartment, later we‘ll start searching immediately for the others."

"I‘ll come back very quickly too.” Johann said. ”Let‘s go!"

Upstairs her mother had opened the apartment door." What has fascinated you so much, that you forgot to come home to eat?” She asked looking at the letter A laying in Sophia’s hand. Puzzled, she pulled her eyebrows together in a questioning face. “Isn‘t that a letter from my bookshop?” How did you get it?” She couldn’t continue.

“It called, ‘hello’, as we passed by it downstairs in the courtyard.” Sophia told her. ”Then we offered to help the A get well".

"But Peter locked the letters in the storage shed yesterday." She said, while walking from room to room in the apartment getting ready for work.