Oscar and the Super Neighbours
When the power goes out across town, Oscar and friends become the neighbourhood’s superheroes.
It was a stormy Tuesday evening, and Oscar was about to start dinner when, FLICK! All the lights went out. The fridge stopped humming. The street went dark. ‘A power cut!’ said Oscar.
Oscar found a torch and looked out of the window. All the houses were dark. Rain drummed on the roof. ‘I wonder if everyone’s okay,’ he said. He thought of Uma the owl, who lived alone at the end of the road.
Oscar phoned Dot and Rani. ‘Let’s be the Night Heroes,’ he said. ‘We’ll check that everyone’s all right.’ They grabbed raincoats and torches, and set off through the puddles.
They knocked on every door. At the first house, a family had run out of candles. Oscar gave them one. At the second, a baby was crying in the dark. Dot sang a soft song until the baby calmed down.
At the end of the road, Uma was sitting in the dark with a blanket. ‘I didn’t want to bother anyone,’ said Uma. ‘You’re no bother,’ said Oscar. ‘Come to the village hall. We’re all gathering there.’
Soon the hall was full of neighbours. There were torches with coloured paper everywhere, glowing in every corner, and somebody had a kettle on a camping stove. Everybody sat on blankets. There was shadow puppets and lots of laughing.
Then, with a soft click, the lights flickered back on. But nobody wanted to leave. ‘Switch them off again!’ laughed Rani. And the whole hall went quiet, and looked at the stars through the windows.
On the way home, Oscar looked at the lit-up houses. ‘It’s nice having lights,’ he said. ‘But I think the best lights tonight were all of us.’ Uma squeezed Oscar’s hand. ‘Super neighbours,’ she said.
The little lesson
Real superpowers are caring for your neighbours and working together.
Let’s talk about it
- What would you do in a power cut?
- How did the neighbours help each other?
Finish stories to collect Oscar as a sticker in your Sticker Book.
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