STORY ANA DE GRACIA
TRACY IS GOING ON A SAFARI
Summer is coming and Tracy Beaker and Peter are going on a Safari.
They are very happy because they are going to leave “The Dumping
Ground” for a couple of weeks.
In Africa is very hot; Tracy and Peter are staying at a campsite near
the Kalahari dessert. One day before going to sleep, the safari guide
asks the children:
- Do you want to listen to a story?
- Yes please – answer the children
Here in Africa, near that lake, lives a hippopotamus, called Hippo.
Hippo takes care of all the underwater plants in the lake and loves to
sing to them.
But he sings very bad and when the other animals listen to him, all
they shout together:
- Silence please! Shut up, Hippo!
One day Hippo’s best friend named Phant, saw that all the
underwater plants were destroyed and asks:
- Where is Hippo? Have you seen Hippo? – asks Phant the
elephant to the lion.
- Yes, Hippo is with Cobra, the snake – says the Lion
- Are you sure? – asks Phant the elephant
- Yes, I am. Cobra says that Hippo sings very well and they are
friends now– says the Lion
- But this is impossible! All of us know that Hippo sings terrible.
How strange! - whispers Phant, the elephant.
Not very far away from there Hippo and Cobra are singing.
- Yeahhh!! Yeahhh!!
- Here, Hippo has no water, soon he will be dry. I am so
hungry!!- thinks Cobra the snake.
But Hippo is a very strong animal that doesn’t stop singing. One day
Cobra bored, decides to leave him alone in the dessert. After three
days with no water, no food and no shade, Hippo falls down
exhausted on the floor.
Thank God, the next morning Phant finds Hippo, but Hippo is so big
and so heavy that Phant cannot carry him to the lake, therefore he
asks for help:
-
Pard, do you want to help me? – asks Phant
Why? – asks Pard the Leopard
I will grant you a delicious dinner tonight!
Okay, I will help you
Within just a couple of minutes, Hippo is back in his beautiful lake
and he is so happy that he decides to dedicate a song to his new
friend the leopard.
- Argh, he looks awful!!- says the leopard- I am going
somewhere else.
Hippo is so sad; no one wants to stay with him and just as he begins
to cry, a beautiful female hippopotamus appears and asks:
- Who of you is singing so well?
Hippo cannot believe it:
-
It’s me. Do you think that I sing well?
Yes – answers the lady
Do you want to sing with me? – asks Hippo
Of course.
And now yes, the melody of the song sounds great!!!!!!