Lola’s Case of the Missing Cookies
Someone has taken every cookie from the cookie jar! Lola the detective is on the case.
Lola the detective put on a hat and picked up a magnifying glass. ‘A case!’ she said. Cleo the cow was standing in the kitchen with a very sad face. ‘Someone has taken all my cookies,’ said Cleo.
‘First, we look for clues,’ said Lola. She knelt down and examined the floor. There was a smear of chocolate on the door! ‘Aha,’ said Lola. 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. Cleo gulped. ‘Someone’s inside!’
Lola knocked softly. The door creaked open. And there was Xena the tiger, wearing an apron, surrounded by plates and plates of cookies. ‘Oh!’ Xena said. ‘You’ve found me!’
‘I’m so sorry,’ said Xena. ‘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.’ Cleo blinked.
‘You could have just asked,’ said Cleo. ‘I’d have baked more! That’s a very good thing to do.’ Lola 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. Lola 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 Lola follow?
- Were you surprised by who took the cookies?
Finish stories to collect Lola as a sticker in your Sticker Book.
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