Layla’s Case of the Missing Cookies
Someone has taken every cookie from the cookie jar! Layla the detective is on the case.
Layla the detective put on a hat and picked up a magnifying glass. ‘A case!’ she said. Holly the hippo was standing in the kitchen with a very sad face. ‘Someone has taken all my cookies,’ said Holly.
‘First, we look for clues,’ said Layla. She knelt down and examined the floor. There was a smear of chocolate on the door! ‘Aha,’ said Layla. She wrote it in her notebook. ‘Follow me.’
They followed the clue out of the back door and down the garden path. Past the rosebush. Past the old well. Round the corner, right up to a small blue shed. Holly gulped. ‘Someone’s inside!’
Layla knocked softly. The door creaked open. And there was Percy the puppy, wearing an apron, surrounded by plates and plates of cookies. ‘Oh!’ Percy said. ‘You’ve found me!’
‘I’m so sorry,’ said Percy. ‘I borrowed your cookies for the school fair. I wanted to ask you, but you were out. I was going to bake some more to replace them.’ Holly blinked.
‘You could have just asked,’ said Holly. ‘I’d have baked more! That’s a very good thing to do.’ Layla closed the notebook. ‘Case closed,’ she said. ‘No crime here, only good cookies.’
So everybody helped bake the rest. And on the day of the school fair, there were more than a hundred cookies to share. Layla was given the very first one, as payment for solving the case.
The little lesson
Look at all the clues before deciding what happened, and be kind when you find out.
Let’s talk about it
- What clues did Layla follow?
- Were you surprised by who took the cookies?
Finish stories to collect Layla as a sticker in your Sticker Book.
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