Bubbles E-Book

Malcolm Howard

• Herausgeber: Clink Street Publishing
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 32

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Angelique has long thin legs, long thin arms and a turned-up nose on which sits an enormous pair of spectacles. Her spectacles are so big that they look like magnifying glasses and make her eyes look very large. She normally wears black shoes, a blue dress and a red scarf, and she had just been awarded all her Certificates and Diplomas to become a teacher. But she needs a job. Retuning to her home village at the foothills of the French Alps, Angelique finds her childhood school has closed! All she needs is determination, enthusiasm and ten pupils to re-open the school and realise her dreams. But Angelique soon realises that her daily adventures have only just begun.

Leseprobe

Unusual people sometimes end up in unusual places.

So it was that Angelique returned to the small mountain village she had known as a child and asked the Mayor if she could re-open the little schoolhouse.

This is the story of Angelique’s very first pupils and her ‘winning formula’ for opening up the world of a child’s imagination – an imagination which is unrestrained.

Keep reading – if you dare…!

CONTENTS

Title PageMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridayCopyright

Monday

Angelique had long thin legs, long thin arms and a turned-up nose on which sat an enormous pair of spectacles. Her spectacles were so big that they looked like magnifying glasses and made her eyes look very large. She normally wore black shoes, a blue dress and a red scarf, and she had just been awarded all her Certificates and Diplomas to be a teacher.

But she needed a job…

Angelique visited the village in the foothills of the mountains, where she grew up as a little girl, to find the old school closed. “Not enough children,” said the Mayor importantly. “But there are some,” said some Mums. “Please let Angelique re-open the school.”

The Mayor said that she would need TEN pupils to open the school again. Angelique was very excited and said that she would try her very best.

She rolled up her sleeves and set to work on the schoolroom. By the time she had finished, each wall was painted in a different bright colour; red and yellow and blue and green. There was a whiteboard with different coloured markers. The sun shone through bright, clean windows and there were ten little tables and chairs, just in case she had ten little pupils.

Something else was new; high up on one wall – so high that only Angelique, with her long, long arms, could reach – there was a little shelf and on this little shelf there were bottles of bubble mixtures, marked and arranged in alphabetical order.

There was

Befuddle-Bubble, Cuddle-Bubble, Double-Bubble, Grumble-Bubble, Hubble-Bubble, Jumble-Bubble, Puddle-Bubble, Squabble-Bubble, Trouble-Bubble and Wubble-Bobble – sorry, Wobble-Bubble…. to name but a few.

This was Angelique’s special secret!

On Monday, the very first day, the Mums brought the children and chattered, and made Angelique feel very welcome. There were just five children to start with. Samantha aged 3, Milo aged 3½, twins Bella and Donna aged 4 and Marlon aged 4½.

The children were very well behaved – for a while, but then they started misbehaving. Marlon threw a piece of paper at Milo. Milo thought it was Bella and said she was a big brown cow. Donna called Milo a big fat donkey and poor little Samantha started to cry.

The children looked up to see Angelique blowing bubbles. This was so unexpected that their noise stopped – with their mouths wide open – in the middle of whatever noise they were making.

Angelique began to blow another bubble. It got bigger and bigger and bigger until … POP! and there on the floor, where the bubble had burst, was a baby drag on, sitting in a bubble-puddle.

“We have a new pupil,” said Angelique. “His name is Grimaldi and I’d like you to make him very welcome.”

The twins recovered their power of speech first. “You can’t have a dragon in the class,” they said together, “our Mummy and Daddy will take us away.”

“I like him,” said Samantha, “he has a happy face.” Grimaldi must have understood as he smiled a big dragon smile and went and sat at the table next to Samantha and picked up a pencil as if it was the most normal thing in the world.

For the next half hour Marlon and Milo played with Lego, Bella and Donna made birthday cards and Samantha watched Grimaldi do a lovely drawing of a Princess being rescued by – a dragon!