said Biff. “Let’s tell Mum and Dad.” “I took photographs of dinosaurs,” said Biff. “Oh yes,” said Dad. “Well, I’m sorry, I didn’t put a film in the camera.”
6-5 Robin Hood
Biff and Wilma went to the pantomime. They went with Wilma’s mum. They had a friend called Anneena. Anneena went to the pantomime with them. The pantomime was about Robin Hood.
Robin Hood was a good man. He lived in a wood with his men. Everyone liked Robin Hood and they gave a cheer every time he came in. There was a bad man called the Sheriff. Nobody liked the Sheriff. He wanted to catch Robin Hood and lock him up. “Look out, Robin!” shouted the children. The next day, Wilma and Anneena went to play with Biff. They sang a song about Robin Hood . Wilma played her guitar and Anneena played her recorder. Kipper didn’t like the song. He put his hands over his ears and made a face. “Woooooooh,” said Kipper. Kipper had a key round his neck. It was the magic key. Biff was cross with Kipper. “Put the key back in the box,” she said. Suddenly the key began to glow. “Look out, Anneena,” said Biff. “This is a magic key and the magic is working. It’s time for an adventure.” The magic took the children to a wood. It was the wood where Robin Hood liked. The children could see Robin with some of his men. Robin Hood had not seen the children. Anneena was frightened. “I hope he is a good man,” she said. “Come on,’ said Kipper. “I can smell food.” Robin Hood saw the children. “Who are you?” he asked. “Are you lost in the woods? Come and sit down.” The children sat by the fire. “We saw you in a play,” said Anneena. “We can sing a song about you.” “Oh no!” said Kipper. “Not the song again.” Biff, Wilma and Anneena sang the song. The song said everyone liked Robin but nobody liked the Sheriff. Robin Hood’s men gave a cheer. “What a good song!” said Robin Hood. “Sing it to me again.” Kipper looked inside a big black pot. Nobody saw the Sheriff coming. Suddenly the Sheriff’s men ran in. They grabbed Robin Hood and put a rope round him. “Got you at last!” said the Sheriff. They jumped on Robin’s men and they grabbed Biff, Wilma,and Anneena. They put them all into a cart. “Take them away!” said the Sheriff. Kipper hid in the big black pot. The Sheriff’s men didn’t see him. “Oh no!” he said. “What can I do? I must help them.” The Sheriff took them to a village. He said, “My castle is too far away, so we will stop here. One of my men will see you don’t get away.” Kipper went up to the man. He gave the man a sweet. “What is that thing?” he asked. “You lock people up in it,” said the man. “You can’t lock people in that,” said Kipper. “You can’t get them in.” “Oh yes you can,” said the man. “Look.” He put in his head and his hands. “Ha!” said Kipper. “You fell for it.” He locked the man in and took away his keys. “Grrr!” said the man. Kipper set them free. “Come on, everyone,” said Robin Hood. “Let’s go back to the woods. We don’t want the Sheriff to catch us.” They went to a new part of the woods. “Three cheers for Kipper,” said Robin Hood. “Now let’s sing that song about me again.” “Oh no!” said Kipper. Suddenly the magic key began to glow. “Just in time,” said Kipper. “It’s time for us to go.” “Goodbye,” said the children. “Goodbye,” said Robin Hood, “and thanks.”
“What an adventure!” said Anneena. “I liked Robin Hood and his men. Let’s sing the song.” “Aaaaaah!” said Kipper.
6-6 The Treasure Chest
Every week Mrs May took some of the children to the swimming pool. The children were good swimmers and they liked goingwith Mrs. May. The childrenwere taking a swimming test. “It’s time to begin.” said Mrs. May. “Who wants to go first?”“We do,” said Nadim. Biff, Chip, Wilma, and Nadim jumped into the pool. The water was warm. “Off you go”, called Mrs, May. They had to swim up and down the pool. They had to swim ten lengths. Wilma was first to swim ten lengths and Biff and Nadim were next. It was hard for Chip to swim the ten lengths. “Come on, Chip,” called Mrs. May. “Don’t stop. This is the last length” So Chip went on and everyone was pleased. Next they had to swim tothe bottom of the pool. They had to pick up a brick and swim with it to the top. All the children passed the swimming test. Mrs May was very pleased. “Well done, everyone,” she said. The children were pleased too.
Biff and Chip told Mum and Dad about the swimming test. “We passed,” they said. Mum and Dad were very pleased too. Mum and Dad had a surprise for them. Biff and Chip couldn’t see what the surprise was. “What is ti?” asked Biff. “It’s a fish tank,” said Biff. “What a lovely surprise!” Everyone looked at the fish swimming about in the tank. “There is room for more fish,” said Dad. “We can get some next time we go shopping.” The next day they went shopping. Dad took them to a shop that sold fish. “What a lovely shop!” said Biff. “Look at all the fish.” There were big fish and little fish. Kipper liked the big fish in a tank. “Don’t tap the glass,” said Dad. “The fish don’t like it.”Dad put some more fish in the tank. He put rocks on the bottom. Next to the rocks he put a ship and a little box. Wilma and Nadim came to see the fish tank. “It looks lovely,” said Wilma. “I wish I could swim in there.” They went to play in Biff’s room. Chip ran in with the magic key. The key was glowing. “It’s time for an adventure,” said Biff.
The magic began to work. It took the children into a new adventure.This time it was a different sort of adventure. The magic took them underwater. The children had masks and flippers and tanks of air. They could swim underwater. The children had never seen so many fish. They were all different colours. “This is better than the pool,” thought Chip. “I feel like a fish,” thought Wilma. The children loved swimming under the water. It was lovely to see all the fish and to swim with them. Chip and Nadim swam to the bottom and picked up a big shell. Biff looked at a jellyfish but she didn’t swim too close. They saw a ship under the water. It was an old ship that had been under the water for a long time. They swam up to the ship. Wilma didn’t want to swim too close to it. It looked dangerous. They saw an octopus. Oh no! It was sitting on a chest. They couldn’t look inside the chest with an octopus sitting on the lid. They blew bubbles at the octopus. The octopus didn’t like the bubbles so it swam away. “Good!” thought the children. “Now we can look inside.” The children opened up the chest and looked inside. It was a treasure chest and it was full of gold. Biff and Wilma pushed the
chest over and all the gold fell out. Nadim picked up a necklace and Biff picked up a gold cup.Biff and Nadim were busy looking at the treasure. They didn’t see what Chip and Wilma saw. A shark was coming. Chip and Wilma couldn’t tell Biff and Nadim. They pulled them away and pointed at the shark. The children were frightened. They swam and swam but the shark swam after them. Then the magic key began to glow. The magic key took them out of the adventure.
“Wow! What an adventure!”said Biff. “The treasure chest was like the one in our fish tank.” The children ran to look in the fish tank. “Look, there’s the treasure,”said Chip. “How did it get there?” asked Nadim. “It’s magic!” said Biff.
6-7 A Fright in the Night
Biff and Chip went to stay with Gran. They went to stay for a week. “Be good,” called Mum. “Don’t worry,” said Gran. “I will.” Gran house was small. It had two bedrooms. Biff and Chip had to sleep in the same bedroom. Biff wanted the bed by the door. Chip wanted the bed by the window. “That’s good,” said Gran. Gran took Biff and Chip for a walk. They went to the woods. Biff saw some blackberries. She wanted to pick some. Gran had some plastic bags. She gave one to Biff and Chip. “We can make some blackberry jam,” she said. Gran made the blackberry jam. Biff and Chip helped. Chip made some labels and Biff licked the spoon. They made nine jars of jam. “You can take a jar home for Kipper,” said Gran. “And a jar for Wilf and Wilma. The children loved Gran’s house. It was very old. It had a big fireplace. Biff helped Gran light the fire. Chip helped Gran get some logs. “Do you have ghosts?” he asked. Gran laughed. “There are no such things,” she said. They sat by the fire. Gran made some toast. Biff wanted to try the new jam. “It’s still too hot,” said Gran. Chip had a new game. It was called Haunted House. “Can we play Haunted House, before we go to bed?” he asked. It was time for bed. Gran got Chip a hot water bottle. “Is this house haunted?” asked Biff. “Don’t worry,” laughed Gran. “I don’t have ghosts in my house. There are no such things.” Biff and Chip couldn’t sleep. Biff had an idea. She wanted to play a joke on Chip. She had a torch in the bed. Biff put the sheet over her head. She switched on the torch. The sheet glowed. “Whooooooo! I am a ghost,” said Biff. Chip laughed. He wasn’t frightened. He pulled the sheet off Biff. “That was a good joke,” he said. Biff and Chip heard a noise. It came from outside. “Whoooo! Whoooo!” went the noise. “Oh no!” said Biff. “It’s a ghost.” Chip looked out of the window. “It’s not a ghost!” he laughed. “It’s an owl.Come and look.” Biff and Chip looked outside. “Oh no!” said Chip. “I can see a ghost. It is ghost this time.” Biff and Chip ran to Gran’s room. “Gran! Gran!” called Biff. “There’s a ghost outside.” But Gran wasn’t in bed. Biff and Chip ran downstairs. “Gran!” called Biff. “Where are you? We’ve seen a ghost.” But Gran wasn’t downstairs. The door opened. Biff and Chip were frightened. “Oh no!” they said. Gran came in. “We were frightened,” said Chip. “You looked like a ghost.” Gran laughed. “I’m not a ghost,” she said. “I don’t have ghosts,” said Gran. “But I do have two little monsters!” Gran laughed and so did Biff and Chip.
6-8 Rotten Apples
Biff wanted to help Mum, so Mum gave her a job. “Pick up the apples so l can cut the grass,” said Mum. Biff picked up an apple. “Yuk!”she said. “Some of the apples are bad.” She didn’t pick up the rotten ones. Mum made Biff pick up all the rotten apples. “Put them in the box,” said Mum. “This is a rotten job,” said Biff. Biff put the box of apples by the dustbin. “Yuk! Rotten apples!” she said. Kipper was excited. “Come and see this!” he said. “What is it?” asked Biff. “Come and see,” said Kipper. A man with a horse and cart came down the street. The man stopped outside the house. “It’s Harry Smith,”said Chip. Everyone liked Harry Smith. He made people laugh. He wore a top hat and a red coat. He sold things from his cart. Harry Smith rang a bell. “Come and see!” he said. “I’ve got some birds going cheap.” Biff and Chip laughed. Mum bought some logs. The logs were heavy. Harry Smith helped Mum to carry them. Biff looked at the horse. “Can we give the horse an apple?” she asked. “Yes,” said Harry Smith. Biff picked up an apple. She held it out. The horse took it with its big teeth. The horse saw the box of apples. It began to eat them. “Oh no!” said Biff. “It’s eating all the bad ones.” Biff told Harry Smith about the horse. Harry laughed. “I didn’t know she liked rotten apples,” he said. Biff looked in the box. It was empty. All the apples had gone. “What a greedy horse!” said Biff. The children wanted a ride. “Jump up!” called Harry Smith. The children climbed on the cart. “Hold on!”said Harry. The horse began to run. Harry Smith pulled the reins. “Slow down!” he shouted. But the horse went faster and faster. The horse ran down the street. “Slow down!” shouted Harry Smith. “Stop!” shouted Mum. “Help!” shouted the children. The horse wouldn’t stop. It ran and ran. Mum ran after it. Harry Smith pulled the reins. It ran into a car park. “Look out,” shouted Harry Smith. The horse began to sway. It made a funny noise. The horse went slower and slower. Suddenly, it stopped. Then it sat down and went to sleep. Harry Smith and the children climbed off the cart. “The horse is drunk,”said Mum. “Why is it drunk?” asked Biff. Harry Smith looked at the horse. “The rotten apples made the horse drunk,” he said. Biff was sorry. Harry Smith laughed. He didn’t mind. People came to see the horse. They bought things from the cart. Harry Smith sold everything. He gave the children a present. “Biff’s rotten apples did me a good turn,” he said.
6-9 The Laughing Princess
Chip had a new book. It was about a princess who couldn’t laugh. Nobody could make her laugh. Chip had an idea. “Try and make me laugh,” he said. Biff made a funny face, but she couldn’t make Chip laugh. Biff put on a funny wig. She told a funny joke. but she still couldn’t make Chip laugh. “It’s no good,” she said. Kipper had some joke teeth. The joke teeth were new. The teeth went click, click, click. Everyone laughed and laughed. The magic key began to glow. The children ran into Biff’s room. The magic took them on a new adventure. The children were in a village. They saw a notice on a tree. It was about a princess who couldn’t laugh. Kipper had an idea. He still had the joke teeth. “I can make the princess laugh,” he said.
