On a rainy Saturday, Faye was tidying the shed when she found an old bicycle under a sheet. It was covered in dust, with a bell shaped like a clock. Felix came over. ‘Let’s take it for a ride!’
Faye sat on the saddle and Felix jumped up behind. They rang the bell, ding-a-ling, and pedalled out into the garden. The air started to swirl. The garden turned into a blur of colours. WHOOSH!
When the swirling stopped, they were in a steamy green jungle. Giant ferns towered above them. Strange birds called in the trees. Then the ground shook, thump, thump, thump.
Out from behind a tree stepped a dinosaur! It was as big as a bus, with a long neck and a kind face. Esme looked at them and made a rumbling sound. It was crying. A tear rolled down its cheek.
‘What’s wrong?’ asked Faye. Esme pointed with a huge nose to a tiny egg that had rolled into a muddy ditch. It was too deep for Esme to reach, but just right for Faye’s small hands.
Faye climbed down and carefully lifted the egg. Felix held Faye’s hand to pull her out. Esme took the egg back, as gently as a feather. A happy rumble echoed through the trees.
‘Thank you,’ the dinosaur’s eyes seemed to say. Esme gave Faye a fern leaf the size of an umbrella. Then the bicycle bell rang by itself. ‘Time to go home,’ said Felix. They pedalled away, waving.
They popped back into the shed, with the rain still tapping on the roof. The bicycle was just a bicycle again. But on the saddle sat a fern leaf the size of an umbrella. ‘Same time next Saturday?’ grinned Felix.
The little lesson
Curiosity takes you to amazing places, but care and kindness bring you home.
Let’s talk about it
- If you could travel back in time, where would you go?
- How did Faye help Esme?
Finish stories to collect Faye as a sticker in your Sticker Book.
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