In part 1, the Little Sumo, and Mummy and
Daddy go to the vegetable garden. There
they see a very elegant princess who is growing vegetables without getting
dirty. She uses two long sets of
chopsticks to pull up weeds, without touching the soil. But then a nasty giant comes to the vegetable
garden, and decides to take the princess, the Little Sumo, and Mummy and Daddy
away to his castle. He plans to eat them.
*
Before anyone could complain, or run away,
the giant picked up the princess in his left hand, and scooped up the little
sumo, and Mummy and Daddy in his right hand.
“How lucky!” boomed the giant. “I have found breakfast, lunch dinner,
supper, and a snack too, in this vegetable garden!”
And the giant carried them all off to his
castle, so that he could eat them the next day when he got hungry.
*
Part 2:
The giant put everyone inside a cupboard in
his huge castle, and then put a heavy stone in front of the cupboard door. The princess, and the Little Sumo, and Mummy
and Daddy were trapped inside the cupboard.
There was only a little light coming into the cupboard from a crack in
the door.
“Stay in there tonight, and we can have a
nice breakfast together in the morning!” laughed the giant. Then he went to bed.
“We have to escape before morning,” said
Mummy.
“I know!” said Daddy. “We can escape using a rocket ship.”
“That’s a great idea!” said the princess.
“But we don’t have a rocket ship, Daddy,”
said the Little Sumo.
“Ah, yes.
Well that idea won’t work then,” said Daddy.
“So the giant really is going to eat us,”
said Mummy.
Everyone sat there unhappily in the gloomy
cupboard for a while.
“I wonder how the giant eats,” said the
Little Sumo. “Does he use a fork and
knife, do you think?”
“That gives me an idea,” said the
princess. “Maybe if we wait until
morning, we can escape after all.”
*
The next morning, the giant came into his huge
kitchen to prepare his breakfast. He
opened the cupboard, and scooped everybody up and placed them on his giant
dining table, which was pushed up against a huge wall in his castle. The Little Sumo could see green grass outside
of a giant window in the wall.
“I’m so hungry,” said the giant. “I can’t wait to start eating my
breakfast. Now there are four
tasty-looking people. Who shall I eat
first?”
“But where is your plate?” said the
princess. “I’m a princess and I have
eaten breakfast with many important people. They always eat with a plate. Surely a giant like you is important enough
to eat breakfast using a plate?”
“Uh… Of course I’m important enough to eat
breakfast with a plate. I was just about
to get it.”
Then the giant walked out of the huge
kitchen, looking a little embarrassed.
Everybody quickly ran to the window,
looking for a way out. They found a
little gap between the window and the window sill. It was just big enough for one person to
slowly squeeze through. Daddy was about
to try to crawl through to escape, when they heard the giant coming back.
“Oh, dear!” said Mummy. “We don’t have time to escape. We’ll have to try again.”
They all ran back to the middle of the
table, and pretended not to have moved.
The giant set down a huge, smooth rock on the table in front of them.
“Well, now I have my plate,” he
boomed. “Let’s eat breakfast!”
*
Oh, dear!
The princess’s escape plan hasn’t worked. Find out if the Little Sumo and his
companions become the giant’s breakfast next time!
Vocabulary:
to be trapped – to be stuck; to be unable
to escape
a crack – a long, thin line where something
is breaking apart
gloomy – dark; unhappy
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