Who Took Vera’s Cookies?
Someone has taken every cookie from the cookie jar! Jamal the detective is on the case.
Jamal the detective put on a hat and picked up a magnifying glass. ‘A case!’ he said. Vera the monkey was standing in the kitchen with a very sad face. ‘Someone has taken all my cookies,’ said Vera.
‘First, we look for clues,’ said Jamal. He knelt down and examined the floor. There was a trail of crumbs! ‘Aha,’ said Jamal. 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. Vera gulped. ‘Someone’s inside!’
Jamal knocked softly. The door creaked open. And there was Kira the kitten, wearing an apron, surrounded by plates and plates of cookies. ‘Oh!’ Kira said. ‘You’ve found me!’
‘I’m so sorry,’ said Kira. ‘I borrowed your cookies for the picnic for the old neighbours. I wanted to ask you, but you were out. I was going to bake some more to replace them.’ Vera blinked.
‘You could have just asked,’ said Vera. ‘I’d have baked more! That’s a very good thing to do.’ Jamal 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 picnic for the old neighbours, there were more than a hundred cookies to share. Jamal 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 Jamal follow?
- Were you surprised by who took the cookies?
Finish stories to collect Jamal as a sticker in your Sticker Book.
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