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- Herausgeber: Little Tiger Press
- Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
- Serie: Story Shop
- Sprache: Englisch
Looking for adventure? Want to be a hero? Step inside the Story Shop! The Story Shop is packed full of plots, costumes and characters galore. And shopkeepers Wilbur and Fred are ready and waiting to find every customer their perfect adventure! When scaredy Bear stumbles into the shop, he's NOT ready for anything … especially when Wilbur and Fred suggest a run-for-your-life dinosaur adventure! Join Bear as he summons his courage to outplay Big T in a game of crazy golf, is given the run around by a trio of Tricera-tots and turns detective to hunt out the veggie thief and restore peas to the dino allotment. From the acclaimed author of SHIFTY MCGIFTY comes a fresh, funny and highly illustrated new series of chapter books, celebrating the power of imagination. Designed for emerging readers with three linked stories in each book, THE STORY SHOP is perfect for fans of HOTEL FLAMINGO and KITTY.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
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Contents
6
Welcome to Puddletown High Street!
Looks completely normal, doesn’t it?
Normal baker’s selling normal bread. Normal shoe shop selling normal wellies. Normal toyshop selling normal bats and balls.
But nestled between the hairdresser’s and the hardware store (which sells entirely normal brooms) is the most unusual shop:7
8The Story Shop sells adventures you can BE in. With real characters you’ll actually meet!
Shopkeeper Wilbur and his assistant Fred Ferret have props and plots galore.
So, what are you waiting for? Step inside if you’re BRAVE enough.
But be warned, anything might happen…
Dino-NITS!
Chapter One
It had been a busy morning in the Story Shop. Just how Wilbur and Fred liked it!
As they tidied the shoe rack, the bell above the door gave another soft –
ting! ting!
“Another customer!” cheered Fred as a big brown bear edged inside.
He glanced at the bell, his eyes wide.
“Everything all right?” called Wilbur.
“I-it’s just … sudden noises scare me,” said the bear. “And stickers. Oh! And 11making choices.”
Wilbur whisked a sheet of stickers under the counter.
“But you chose to come here,” said Fred kindly.
“Well, s-sort of,” Bear replied. He held out a voucher in a trembly paw.
“My friend Ted got me this from your shop. ‘One story adventure of yourDREAMS’.”
Bear eyed a basket of false beards on the counter as if they might bite him on the nose. “I’m just not sure I’m b-brave enough,” he sighed.
12“Nonsense!” smiled Wilbur, taking the voucher. “You just need the right adventure!”
He jotted down a few notes, then set off around the shop gathering things Bear could “try for size”…
13“Too – argh! What’s that?!”
Two little ghosts had just wafted through the front of the Spooks drawer. Bear leaped into Wilbur’s arms. “Too scary!”
“Don’t mind them – they’re super friendly,” said Fred, fanning them away with a toy shield.
“They certainly are!” Wilbur chuckled. “But while a spooky adventure isn’t quite right for you, Bear, I think I have just the thing.”
14Wilbur popped him back down and straightened his hat. Then he whisked two more costumes off a rail. They looked like onesies, but each had a spiky tail.
“T-two?” asked Bear.
“I’m coming with you!” Fred beamed.
“Oh!” Bear’s face brightened. “Phew!”
As Fred dashed off to get changed behind the counter, Wilbur showed Bear into the changing room. When he came back out
he spluttered as Dino-Fred stomped over to join him.
“Hey! Our costumes are camouflaged,” said Fred. “All the better for hiding from, um … things.”
“From other dinosaurs you mean,” gulped Bear. “No. S-sorry. I can’t!”15
“Trust me,” said Wilbur. “I bet you’re braver than you think.”
“I doubt it…”
Wilbur plucked the feather off his hat and waved it over a patch of bare floorboards. They parted – SWISH! – and up rose a big black pot. Hooked over the rim was a shiny silver spoon.
“This is the Story Pot,” Fred explained.
“U-um…” Bear peeped inside. An 16inky-blue liquid simmered very softly.
Wilbur added some rocks, a large jar of soil and a handful of really sharp teeth.
Bear backed away.
“Bear – look!” cried Fred, pointing.
On a nearby shelf, a blank book had started jiggling as if itching to get the story started. Fred popped it into the pot, with a glug of letters from a jar.
17“L-letters?” asked Bear.
“All stories need words,” replied Wilbur.
He handed Fred some props – a bag of balloons, a night light and a packet of magical bean seeds. Fred popped them into his rucksack and smiled.
“Those are special props,” he said, “to get us out of sticky story twists.”
“Sticky story twists?!” Bear’s eyes grew wide. “Yikes!”
Finally, Wilbur passed Fred a small toy dinosaur, which he slipped into his pocket.
“Now, Bear, time to stir the story!” said Fred.
He unhooked the spoon, placed Bear’s paw on the handle and together they lowered it into the mixture.
“No, w-wait!” gasped Bear. But suddenly…
18a jet of bubbles shot from the pot and whizzed off around the shop. They pinged off props, bounced off books, and sent the false beards in a whirl.
Then…
the bubbles vanished. And Bear and Fred were gone.
Chapter Two
THUD!
They landed behind a prickly bush. Fred peeped over the top.
“Dinosaurs!” he whispered.
Bear peeped over too. “Uh-oh!”
There were four of them, all huge and terrifying – an Apatosaurus, a Stegosaurus, a Diplodocus and a mighty T. rex.
They were playing a game that looked a bit like golf, using bumpy boulders for balls and thick tree branches for clubs. 20There seemed to be lots of pushing. And no rules.
“I w-want to go … h-home,” whimpered Bear. He was shaking so much that their “hideout bush” was trembling too.
21“Bear,” whispered Fred. “Keep still – or be eaten.”
“Oh, now you’re giving me a choice,” gasped Bear. “You know I hate—”
Suddenly there was a…
and the ground beneath their feet shook.
The next moment, the fierce T. rex glared down.
