Micki and her friends Lolo and Unathi
were reading their favourite books.
“If you help Micki clean her room,”
Prudence said, “you can all have
biscuits afterwards.”
“YAY!”
But they carried on and read and read
and read.
Then they stopped reading and cleaned
Micki’s room.
“My room is tidy now,” Micki said.
“Let’s go and get biscuits.”
But they could not find Prudence
anywhere.
Micki, Lolo and Unathi stared at
the biscuit jar on the top shelf
wondering how to reach it.
So they found a chair and took
turns to climb on it.
But none of them could reach
the biscuit jar.
“My mama would say this is
dangerous and we could fall
and hurt ourselves,” Lolo said.
So Lolo sat on Unathi’s shoulders and
stretched out his arms but could not
reach the biscuit jar.
“My father would say this is dangerous
and we could fall and hurt ourselves,”
Unathi said.
So they found a rope to throw around
the biscuit jar and pull it down.
But they could still not reach the
biscuit jar.
“My mummy would say this is
dangerous and the jar could fall on us
and hurt us,” Micki said.
“What are you doing?”
Jonathan and Sakhi asked.
“We are trying to reach the biscuit
jar,” Micki said.
“We can help you,”
they said.
“Let’s push the table close to
the shelf and climb on that
instead,” Jonathan said.
But still, none of them could
reach the biscuit jar.
“Let’s throw a ball at the jar and knock
it down so that the biscuits fall out,”
Sakhi said.
“Yes!” Lolo and Jonathan said.
“No!” Unathi and Micki said.
Finally, Micki had an idea…
And that is
how, together,
they reached
the biscuit jar!
The Biscuit Jar Must Fall (English)
