Magnificent Mabel and the Rabbit Riot E-Book

Ruth Quayle

• Herausgeber: Nosy Crow
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Serie: Magnificent Mabel
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Seitenzahl: 28

Beschreibung

Introducing a truly hilarious and one-of-a-kind new character: Magnificent Mabel! Sometimes life isn't fair for Mabel Chase. Like for instance she doesn't have one SINGLE pet in her whole life. And ALL the people in her class are losing their baby teeth. And she doesn't EVEN have a sprinkler in her own garden. But none of that matters in the end... because Mabel is still MAGNIFICENT. Three laugh-out-loud funny short stories, brilliantly illustrated throughout! With perfectly-observed, child-friendly humour, highly-relatable themes in each story, an incredibly distinctive voice, and stylish illustrations, these books are perfect for early readers.

Leseprobe

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Magnificent Mabel and the Rabbit Riot

My name is Mabel Chase.

Some people say I’m a sweety heart.

Not everyone agrees.

Sometimes life isn’t even fair.

Like for instance I don’t have one single pet in my whole life.

This is not a good situation because I am keener on pets than most people are.

I know one hundred breeds of 3dog and I am up-to-date on the life cycle of a guinea pig.

Pets are better than sleepovers and ice cream.

4Pets are my favourite subject of conversation.

Mum and Dad say I am too young for a pet of my own.

They say I am not responsible enough.

When they say this I scream and shout rude things.

Then Dad says, “That’s what I’m talking about,” and sends me to my room and also he gives 5Mum a look over my head that he thinks I can’t notice but I can.

I am a noticing sort of girl.

I tell my mum and dad that actually they don’t know what they’re talking about.

I shout that quite a few people my age have a pet of their own.

I shout that lots of people at my school have two pets.

Florence Carter has so many 6pets she can’t even count them up on two hands.

She says it would take her three weeks to count them.

Florence Carter lives on a farm in the real countryside.

On farms you have so many pets you don’t even notice them.

Florence Carter has too many animals.

For example, inside her 7kitchen, Florence Carter has got two dogs and four cats and three hamsters.

Inside her bedroom, Florence Carter has a ferret.

Florence Carter thinks a ferret is an everyday sort of pet 8when anyone could tell her that ferrets are rare.

Florence Carter is quite a spoilt girl.

Florence Carter has chickens that roam free all day long until it gets dark.

At dark, Florence Carter has her own special job of putting 9the chickens away so they won’t get eaten by a fox.

Florence Carter doesn’t like getting the chickens in.

Florence Carter moans about chickens from morning till night.

10Florence Carter takes chickens for granted.

But even Florence Carter is not as spoilt as my sister Meg.

That’s because yesterday my sister Meg got a true-life rabbit for her birthday.

This is the whole tragedy of my life. Anyone can tell that I am the rabbit-y one in this family. 11

I have rabbit wallpaper and rabbits on my bed and I have a rabbit alarm clock, too. 12

Everybody knows that I am keener on pets than anybody else in this house.

Mum and Dad know that I am the one who really needs a pet.

Meg’s new rabbit is called Henry and he has silky fur and a wooffly nose.

Henry is just my type of rabbit.

When Meg opened Henry’s cage she made a squealing sound. 13

I thought, Henry is quite scared of that squealing.

When Meg picked Henry up she squeezed him tightly.

I thought, Henry does not look at all comfortable with Meg.

14When Meg looked at Henry she couldn’t stop giggling.

I thought, it is quite rude of Meg to laugh at a poor little bunny rabbit on his first day in a new house.

If I had a new rabbit for my birthday, I would not laugh at my rabbit.

If I had had a brand-new rabbit of my own I would keep 15an eye on it all day long without stopping.

But my sister Meg only spent the morning keeping an eye on Henry.