Best Classic Fairy Tales for Kids, season 2

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© Text: Abel Studios, 2023

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ISBN 978-90-834501-7-9 | NUR 281

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Episodes

1. Winnie The Pooh, in which Pooh and Piglet go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle

2. The Three Little Pigs

3. Androcles and the Lion

4. Little Red Riding Hood

5. Henny Penny

6. How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

7. Goldilocks and the Three Bears

8. The Princess and the Pea

9. Tom Thumb

10. The Tortoise and the Hare

1. Winnie The Pooh, in which Pooh and Piglet go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle

Piglet lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-tree, and the beech-tree was in the middle of The Hundred Acre Wood and Piglet lived in the middle of that house. Next to his house was a piece of broken board which had: “TRESPASSERS W” on it. When Christopher Robin asked Piglet what it meant, he said it was his grandfather’s name, and had been in the family for a long time. Christopher Robin said you couldn’t be called Trespassers W, and Piglet said yes, you could, because his grandfather was, and it was short for Trespassers Will, which was short for Trespassers William. And his grandfather had had two names in case he lost one — Trespassers after an uncle, and William after Trespassers.

“I’ve got two names,” said Christopher Robin carelessly.

“Well, there you are, that proves it,” said Piglet.

One fine winter’s day when Piglet was brushing away the snow in front of his house, he happened to look up, and there was Winnie the Pooh. Pooh was walking round and round in a circle, thinking of something else, and when Piglet called to him, he just went on walking.

“Hallo!” said Piglet, “what are you doing?”

“Hunting,” said Pooh.

“Hunting what?”

“Tracking something,” said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously.

“Tracking what?” said Piglet, coming closer.

“That’s just what I ask myself. I ask myself, What?”

“What do you think you’ll answer?”

“I shall have to wait until I catch up with it,” said Winnie the Pooh. “Now, look there.” He pointed to the ground in front of him. “What do you see there?”

“Tracks,” said Piglet. “Paw-marks.” He gave a little squeak of excitement. “Oh, Pooh! Do you think it’s a– a– a woozle?”

“It may be,” said Pooh. “Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn’t. You can never tell with paw-marks.”

With these few words he went on tracking, and Piglet, after watching him for a minute or two, ran after him. Winnie the Pooh had come to a sudden stop, and was bending over the tracks in a puzzled sort of way.

“What’s the matter?” asked Piglet.

“It’s a very funny thing,” said the bear, “but there seem to be two animals now. This — whatever-it-was — has been joined by another — whatever-it-is — and the two of them are now proceeding in company. Would you mind coming with me, Piglet, in case they turn out to be hostile animals?”

Piglet scratched his ear in a nice sort of way, and said that he had nothing to do until Friday, and would be delighted to come, in case it really was a woozle.

“You mean, in case it really is two woozles,” said Winnie the Pooh, and Piglet said that anyhow he had nothing to do until Friday. So off they went together.

There was a small spinney of larch trees just here, and it seemed as if the two woozles, if that is what they were, had been going round this spinney; so round this spinney went Pooh and Piglet after them; Piglet passing the time by telling Pooh what his grandfather, Trespassers W, had done to remove stiffness after tracking, and how his grandfather, Trespassers W, had suffered in his later years from shortness of breath, and other matters of interest, and Pooh wondering what a grandfather was like, and if perhaps this was two grandfathers they were after now, and, if so, whether he would be allowed to take one home and keep it, and what Christopher Robin would say. And still the tracks went on in front of them...

Suddenly Winnie the Pooh stopped, and pointed excitedly in front of him. “Look!”

“What?” said Piglet, with a jump. And then, to show that he hadn’t been frightened, he jumped up and down once or twice more in an exercising sort of way.

“The tracks!” said Pooh. “A third animal has joined the other two!”

“Pooh!” cried Piglet. “Do you think it is another woozle?”

“No,” said Pooh, “because it makes different marks. It is either two woozles and one, as it might be, wizzle… or two, as it might be, wizzles and one, if so it is, woozle. Let us continue to follow them.”