Noah and the Cookie Mystery
Someone has taken every cookie from the cookie jar! Noah the detective is on the case.
Noah the detective put on a hat and picked up a magnifying glass. ‘A case!’ he said. Faye the puppy was standing in the kitchen with a very sad face. ‘Someone has taken all my cookies,’ said Faye.
‘First, we look for clues,’ said Noah. He knelt down and examined the floor. There was a sweet smell leading outside! ‘Aha,’ said Noah. He wrote it in his 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. Faye gulped. ‘Someone’s inside!’
Noah knocked softly. The door creaked open. And there was Harvey the hippo, wearing an apron, surrounded by plates and plates of cookies. ‘Oh!’ Harvey said. ‘You’ve found me!’
‘I’m so sorry,’ said Harvey. ‘I borrowed your cookies for the party for the new baby. I wanted to ask you, but you were out. I was going to bake some more to replace them.’ Faye blinked.
‘You could have just asked,’ said Faye. ‘I’d have baked more! That’s a very good thing to do.’ Noah closed the notebook. ‘Case closed,’ he said. ‘No crime here, only good cookies.’
So everybody helped bake the rest. And on the day of the party for the new baby, there were more than a hundred cookies to share. Noah 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 Noah follow?
- Were you surprised by who took the cookies?
Finish stories to collect Noah as a sticker in your Sticker Book.
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