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One day Lulu was looking at some pens and notebooks at the store. She saw one that said “magic pen and notebook.” So she bought that and took it home. She looked at the instructions that came with the pen. It said that whatever was drawn would become real and jump out of the paper. Lulu tried it out.  She got out the notebook, and turned to a blank page. She used the magic pen and drew a hat. But nothing happened. Then she picked up the notebook and turned it upside down, and a hat fell out of the paper and onto the table. Lulu laughed. Now she had a funny hat that looked like the one she drew.  She put the hat on her head and smiled. Then she took the magic notebook and the magic pen, and went out for a walk. When she got downstairs and near the building entrance to go outside, Lulu saw that it was raining. She was about to go back upstairs to get an umbrella, when she remembered her magic pen.  She got out the notebook and on a blank page she drew an umbrella. Then she ...

One day Lulu woke up from a very funny dream, and she could remember it. In her dream, Lulu had a birthday and she was getting bigger, and she got some new clothes, and she was excited to try them on. She got a new shirt, and she got a new pair of pants.  The shirt fit very nicely, and so did the pants. Then in the dream, she saw that the tag on the shirt and the tag on the pants was written, “scratch for an extra one.” Lulu didn’t know what that meant, so she scratched the tag on the shirt, and suddenly an extra shirt appeared magically.  Then she scratched the tag on the pants, and an extra pair of pants appeared magically. In her dream, Lulu laughed with surprise. It seemed like she got some magic pants and shirt for her birthday. Now she had two shirts and two pants. Then she decided to scratch the tags on both shirts, and suddenly two extra shirts appeared magically.  In her dream she laughed again. Next she scratched the tags on both pants, and suddenly two extra pa...

One day Lulu was reading a book about some builders. And then she thought that she would build something out of her legos. But what would she build? She was thinking and thinking, and then she came up with an idea. She would build a toy road with a bridge.  She got her legos out, and she started putting the pieces together to make a small road, the size of her foot. Then she got some more lego pieces, and she put those pieces together to make a small bridge the size of her hand. She thought about different types of bridges.  There are bridges that go over railroad tracks, bridges that go over other roads, and bridges that go over water. Then she got an idea of making a small wooden bridge in the park to go over the small creek, so that squirrels could cross over it. Lulu got some string, and took that with her, and she walked to the park.  When she got there, she went to the grass field near some trees, and found the small creek which was small enough that she could step ...

One day Lulu was going for a walk, when she saw a cat. Lulu stopped walking and the cat meowed at Lulu and looked at her. Lulu tried to walk past the cat, but it got in front of Lulu and meowed again. Lulu thought this was very unusual, and it seemed that the cat was trying to get Lulu’s attention.  Then Lulu tried walking around the cat again, but the cat walked in front of Lulu and again meowed, and looked at Lulu to get her attention, so Lulu stopped walking this time. Then Lulu noticed it very clearly, and then she told the cat that she’s paying attention.  The cat started walking one way, and stopped and was looking back at Lulu, so Lulu took a few steps towards the cat and then she stopped. Next the cat walked a little more, then stopped and looked back at Lulu again. Lulu walked towards the cat and stopped again.  Then the cat kept walking further and Lulu followed the cat by walking behind it. Every few minutes the cat would turn back and look at Lulu, and Lulu sm...

  One day Lulu was getting ready for a bicycle ride, when she saw the chain on her bicycle was broken. So she walked and pushed her bicycle to the bicycle repair shop. When she arrived at the repair shop, there was a line of people in front of her, so she sat down and waited for her turn.  While she was sitting down, there were some magazines on the chair next to her so she started reading one. It was about a two-seater bicycle with wings, that could fly. Lulu was curious and kept reading more. Then she saw a poster in the repair store that said they would give people rides on their new two-seater bicycle with wings.  Then it was Lulu’s turn next to talk with the repair person about her bicycle chain needing to be replaced. The lady at the counter said that they could fix it, while she waited. Then Lulu asked about the two-seater bicycle with wings, and asked if there were any rides available. The lady at the counter went and found a worker who could take Lulu on a flying...

One day Koala was walking through the forest when it saw a bicycle. Koala thought he would ride the bicycle for a little while. Then as koala was riding the bicycle, he saw a car. Koala thought he would drive the car for a little while, so he got off the bicycle and got in the car.  Then as koala was driving the car, he saw a truck. Koala thought he would drive the truck for a little while, so he got out of the car and got in the truck. Then as koala was driving the truck, he saw a boat on the river. Koala thought he would ride the boat for a little while, so he got out of the truck and got in the boat.  Then as koala was riding the boat, he saw a bus on the other side of the river, so when koala reached the other side of the river, he got out of the boat and got in the bus. Then as koala was riding the bus, he saw a motorcycle. Koala thought he would ride the motorcycle for a little while, so he got out of the bus and got on the motorcycle.  Then as koala was riding the ...

One day Lulu was taking off her socks. And she noticed a hole near the toe of one of her socks. She decided to repair it by sewing it up. She went and got her sewing kit, and took out the needle and thread. Then she turned her sock inside out.  She put the thread through the needle, and she pinched the hole in the sock, so that it made a line. Then she took the needle and started on one end of the hole, and made a knot so that the thread stayed in place. Then she sewed back and forth across the line of the hole, until she reached the other end. Then she put a knot in it, with the needle and thread.  Now the hole was patched up, so she cut the thread off the hole in the sock that she fixed. Then she turned the sock back inside out the right way. And the hole was gone because it was fixed. Then Lulu saw that there were some buttons in her sewing kit. She decided to make a sock puppet out of her sock.  She took two buttons and put them side by side on the sock near the toes,...

One day Lulu was reading a book about fish. And she started daydreaming about being a fish. She wondered what it would be like to live underwater. Then she thought of something funny. She thought it would be funny if she was a duck, because ducks can fly. They also sit on water in ponds and lakes. Lulu got out her notebook, and she drew a picture of a duck, and she drew a picture of a fish. And they were friends. Then Lulu made up a story about the duck and the fish going on an adventure. In her story, the duck was flying around and landed on a pond. Then while it was swimming around on the top of the pond, a fish from underwater came up to the duck and said hello. The duck politely said hi. Then the fish asked the duck what it was like to fly around in the sky. The duck said that it’s very nice, and that if the fish wanted to go for a quick ride, the duck could take the fish to a nearby river. The fish said okay. Then the fish hopped on top of the duck’s back, and the duck started to ...

One day Lulu went for a scooter ride outside, and was scooting along safely down the street. Lulu saw something on the ground, and she stopped to take a look at it. At first it looked like a small rock, but it was moving very slowly.  Then Lulu leaned in closer and looked more carefully, and then she saw that it was actually a snail. It had a small shell with curved lines on it, and the snail was inside it, except for it’s foot and head, which was sticking out only a little bit.  Then Lulu had an idea for something funny, and she scooted back home on her scooter. She got an empty box, and she drew some curved lines on it, and cut some holes in the sides and one end, and she put her arms through the holes on the side, and her head through the hole on the end.  And now she could pretend to be a snail, with the box looking like a snail shell on her. Then she got on her scooter and went for a scooter ride again, but this time she went very slowly, because she was pretending t...

One day koala wanted to read a book, and she went to the bookshelf to get a book. The books were packed very tightly on the bookshelf, and the book that koala wanted was stuck. So koala pulled on the book very hard, and all of a sudden the bookshelf fell over, and all the books dropped to the ground.  Koala looked at the mess and started to tidy it up. Koala picked up a bunch of books and made a pile. Then koala picked up another bunch of books and made a second pile. Then koala picked up some more books and made a third pile. Then koala made a fourth pile of books, and all the books were piled up.  There was a knock at the front door, and koala realized that her friend kiwi must have arrived. Koala opened the door to let kiwi in. Kiwi brought some books to read as well. When kiwi saw all of koala’s books in four piles on the ground, kiwi asked why the books were there.  Koala said that the bookshelf had fallen over, and so koala had tidied up the books that fell off the ...

  One day Lulu wanted to go for a swim. So Lulu and her mommy packed a small backpack with a swimsuit, a towel, arm floats, and swimming goggles. Plus a snack of a bag of grapes with a rubber band that tied it closed. Then Lulu went to the swimming pool.  At the swimming pool Lulu saw some friends were also swimming there. Lulu went over to them and said hello. Then one of them suggested that they all do some diving from the low diving board. That sounded fun, so they all walked over to the diving board, and lined up behind each other.  One by one they each went onto the diving board, and jumped off it in a funny way, splashing around when they landed in the water. First they all tried a normal front jump. Then they all tried jumping backwards. Then some of them tried doing a front flip. Then some of them tried doing a back flip.  And then they all tried bouncing on the diving board to jump higher up in the air before landing in the water with a big splash. They even...

One day Lulu and Sally were playing together, and Lulu had an idea. Lulu said, “let’s make puppets out of paper bags.” Sally said, “that’s a great idea.” So Lulu and Sally went to the kitchen and got some small lunch sized paper bags.  They positioned the paper bags upside down on the table, so that the opening of the paper bag was pointing down, and the bottom of the paper bag was pointing up. And then they both drew on two paper bags each, so that there were four paper bags altogether. They drew a flower with a face on the first one. They drew a tree with a face on the second one.  They drew a frog with a face on the third one. And they drew a butterfly with a face on the fourth one. Then they put the paper bag puppets over each of their hands, and Lulu and Sally gave the puppets voices, so that they could talk and tell a story. Then Lulu and Sally decided to go to the park and find their friends to show them the paper bag puppets.  When they got to the park their frien...

One day Lulu and her mommy came back from the bookstore. And Lulu was excited about the new book that they got. It was a story about animals in the ocean. And Lulu was going to read it that night before going to sleep. At the end of the day, Lulu opened up her new book and looked through the pages to see what all the different animals in the ocean were.  There was a page about a whale, there was a page about a walrus, there was a page about a shrimp, there was a page about a turtle, there was a page about a fish, there was a page about a dolphin, there was a page about a shark, and there was a page about a lobster, and there was a page about an octopus.  Lulu looked out the window and could see the moon was full, and high up in the sky. Then Lulu saw that the book was starting to shake. And then she heard a noise from the book, and somebody said “hello.”  Lulu was surprised, and then saw that out of her new book were popping out the whale, the walrus, the shrimp, the turt...

Lulu and Sally went for a walk one day. While they were on their walk, Lulu saw some things that reminded her of a dream she had the night before, and she told Sally about it. Lulu said, “last night I had a dream that I could jump very high.” Sally asked, “how high were you able to jump?”  Lulu answered, “In my dream I could jump right over the top of big things, like houses and buildings.” Sally pointed at a leaf on the ground, and asked if Lulu could jump over that now. And Lulu was able to jump over the leaf. Then Sally pointed at a rock on the ground, and asked if Lulu could jump over that now. And Lulu was able to jump over the rock.  Then Sally pointed at a bench on the ground, and asked if Lulu could jump over that. Lulu looked at the bench and said, “I don’t think I can jump over the bench now, but in my dream I could. It almost felt like I was floating in the air, like a balloon.”  Then Sally had an idea, and thought to go get some balloons to see if Lulu could f...

Lulu and Sally came back inside after playing outside. As Lulu was taking off her shoes, Sally wondered how long Lulu’s shoelace was, and if it was longer than her shoes. Lulu didn’t know, and they decided to do some experiments. They would measure the shoelace to see how long or short it was. Lulu took a shoelace off one of her shoes and she held next to her shoe. She put one end of the shoelace near the back of the shoe, and the other end of the shoelace went past the front of the shoe. Lulu said, “the shoe is shorter than the shoelace.” Sally wanted to measure some more things to find out what was longer and what was shorter than the shoelace. Sally pointed at the lamp, so they walked over to it. Lulu held the shoelace next to the lamp, with one end of the shoelace near the bottom of the lamp. And Sally held the other end, but the top of the lamp was above the other end of the shoelace. Lulu said, “the lamp is longer than the shoelace.” Then they went to the desk and Sally pointed a...

  One day Lulu decided to write a letter to Sally. So Lulu got a sheet of paper, and a pencil, and an envelope, and a stamp. On the sheet of paper, Lulu wrote a short message. It said, “Dear Sally, I’m so glad that you’re my friend. I just wrote you this letter to tell you that you’re very special, and I have fun reading stories together with you. If you would like, you can write me a letter back.” Then Lulu folded the sheet of paper, and put it in the envelope. After that, Lulu stuck the postage stamp onto the envelope, and wrote Sally’s address on the envelope. Then Lulu put the letter in the mailbox for the mail delivery person to take. After a few days, Sally was at home when the envelope arrived. Sally was very excited to receive a letter, and quickly opened the envelope. Sally took the sheet of paper out, unfolded it and read it. And Sally smiled because it was a very nice letter from piggie. Then Sally decided to write a letter back to Lulu. Sally got a sheet of paper, and a...

  One day Lulu came over to see Sally, and asked Sally if she wanted to go outside and play. Sally said sure, but what were they going to play outside? Lulu had brought a bottle of bubble liquid, and said that they could make bubbles outside.  That sounded fun, so they put on their shoes and went outside. They walked to a bench and sat down, and opened the bottle of bubble liquid. There was a scoop inside the bottle, attached to the lid, and they used that to dip into the liquid and blow air onto and make little bubbles. The first few bubbles were small and popped right away.  So they tried again and dipped the scooper into the bottle and lifted it out to blow air onto it and make more bubbles. This time the bubbles were bigger but they still popped very quickly. Next they tried again and dipped the scoop into the bottle and lifted it out slowly to keep more liquid on the scoop, and they blew air softly onto it.  This time it just made one large bubble, and it starte...

  Lulu and Sally met together and were thinking of what they could do today. Lulu said, “I have an idea, let’s make paper airplanes.” Sally said, “yes that’s a good idea, and we’ll fly them all over and see where they go.” So Lulu and Sally went to get some sheets of paper to make some paper airplanes.  They found some paper, and Lulu made some paper airplanes, and Sally made some paper airplanes. Then Lulu drew the letter “L” on her airplanes to know which ones she made. And Sally drew the letter “S” on her airplanes to know which ones she made.  They each made three paper airplanes, so altogether there were six paper airplanes. Lulu said, “okay let’s go fly the paper airplanes and see where they go.” Sally said, “that sounds fun, we’ll also see which ones go the farthest.” Then Lulu and Sally went outside to fly their paper airplanes.  Lulu threw the first paper airplane. It flew up, and went forward, and then went up again and landed in a tree. Lulu said, “haha th...

One day when Lulu was getting ready to go to bed, she decided to show her toy zebra how she brushes her teeth. First thing Luu showed her toy zebra is where she keeps her toothbrush and also the toothpaste, in a little cup on the bathroom counter by the sink.  Then Lulu picked up the toothpaste and took off the lid. Next she picked up the toothbrush. She told her toy zebra, “we have to put a little bit of toothpaste on the toothbrush.” In one hand Lulu held the toothbrush by the handle. In her other hand she held the tube of toothpaste, and Lulu squeezed a small amount of toothpaste out of the tube and pressed it onto the bristles of the toothbrush.  Then she put down the tube of toothpaste and said to her toy zebra “now watch how I brush all my teeth.” Lulu started to press the bristles of the toothbrush onto her front teeth and move the toothbrush up and down and also side to side. Then Lulu pushed the toothbrush to the left side of her cheek and brushed the outside facing p...

One day Lulu was in the park playing, when she saw some people doing some gymnastics practice. They were doing forward roll, backward roll, cartwheel, handstand, bridge, and a back bend. It all looked very amazing. Lulu remembered that Sally said she wanted to learn some gymnastics. And Lulu watched the people practicing gymnastics in the park.  After the people were finished practicing gymnastics, Lulu went to Sally’s home. It was time to teach Sally some gymnastics moves. Lulu showed Sally all the movements. And then it was Sally’s turn to try. The first one Sally tried was the forward roll. Sally stood in the upright position, hands reaching toward the ceiling. Then Sally bent down, tucked in her chin, rolled on the floor, and came back to a standing position. Lulu clapped her hands and smiled. Good job, Sally. Next was the backward roll. This time Sally started by standing with a tall stance. Then Sally squatted down on her heels, sat on the floor, rolled backwards, and pushed ...

One day after lunch, Lulu saw that there was some ice cream left in the freezer, and she wanted to eat it. But Lulu’s mommy said not to eat that ice cream because it was being saved to share with a friend the next day.  But Lulu really wanted to eat it, so when mommy wasn’t looking, Lulu ate the ice cream. Then Lulu put the empty ice cream container back in the freezer. The next day when the friend came over for lunch. After lunch, mommy opened the freezer and took out the container of ice cream. But it was empty.  There was no ice cream in the container. “Lulu, do you know what happened to the last of the ice cream that was in here?” mommy asked. Lulu answered, “yes, I ate it yesterday after lunch.” Mommy reminded Lulu, “didn’t I tell you not to finish it because we were saving it to share with our friends today?”  Lulu replied, “you’re right, you did tell me, but I didn’t listen, and I just ate it all yesterday.” Mommy explained to Lulu, “well that was a mistake, but if...

One evening Lulu was learning about different shapes, and then got an idea. Lulu thought it would be fun to trace new shapes onto a sheet of paper, using a pencil. The shapes which Lulu chose to trace around were things in the kitchen.  First Lulu got out a jar of peanut butter and put that on the sheet of paper, and traced around it with the pencil. Then Lulu lifted the jar and wrote “peanut butter” in the traced shape. Next, Lulu got a bottle of pesto sauce and put that on the sheet of paper, and traced around it with the pencil. Then Lulu lifted the bottle and wrote “pesto sauce” in the traced shape.  Next Lulu got a bottle of soy sauce and put that on the sheet of paper, and traced around it with a pencil. Then Lulu lifted the bottle and wrote “soy sauce” in the traced shape. Next Lulu got a bottle of ketchup and put that on the sheet of paper, and traced around it with a pencil. Then Lulu lifted the bottle and wrote “ketchup” in the traced shape.  Next Lulu got a bot...

One evening piggie was getting ready to take a bath and decided to have a fun bath with some plastic toys. Piggie had some plastic fruit toys which floated when they were put in water. So while the bathtub was filling up with water, piggie went and got her toys of plastic fruit.  She has a toy strawberry, a toy banana, a toy apple, a toy orange, a toy lemon, a toy tomato, and a bunch of toy grapes. Those were seven different types of toy fruits and piggie put them all in the bathtub of water, and then got in herself. While piggie splashed around in the bathtub, she thought it would also be a fun idea to see if she could balance any of the toy fruit on her head.  She tried to put the toy strawberry on her head, but it just rolled off, so piggie put the toy strawberry on her left side. Then she tried the toy banana and it seemed to stay on her head where the curve of the banana fit over the curve of her head, so piggie put the toy banana on her right side.  She was separati...