MK's Favorite Pastime

I found that pre-schooler missionary kids love to have you read books to them.  The more you "ham" it up the better.  They love to sit and listen to stories about animals and people.  One of their favorite stories was the "Three Dassies."

 The book was written by Jan Bret and had very colorful pictures and a fascinating tale involving each Dassie building a house and a dangerous eagle.  The first Dassie built a house out of grass and the eagle came and blew it down carrying Dassie off to his nest.

 The second Dassie built a house out of sticks and the eagle blew it down and carried Dassie off.

 The third Dassie built a house using rocks, but the eagle tried as hard as he could, but could not blow it down.  He even tried to go down the chimney, but all he got was burnt feathers and covered with black soot.

 While he was busy trying to blew down the rock house the other two Dassies escaped out of his nest and scampered down the mountain to hide in their sisters stone house.  The poor eagle ended up with no breakfast and the three little Dassies were safe.

  Alls well that ends well seems to be the favorite part of the story. 

If you want to hold the attention of pre-schoolers try reading and acting out a good story book to them.  It worked for me.   Bob Delaney