Manu, my now 20 month old son, likes stories that revolve around grandma and bow-bow(dog) and wants to hear them when he drinks milk or dozes off to sleep. But he wants a neww story everytime, if we repeat the story that was told earlier, he stops drinking and tells ma, no, new bow-bow. So i try to "invent" new stories with some learnings and moral while keeping the main characters in.
Here is one such story....
Once there was a grandma and she had red blue and green sarees. She didnt have a saree in yellow color, so she wanted to go out and buy an yellow colored saree. She opened the door and stepped out to go to the shop, but there was a big dog which barked at her and she got scared. Seeing that the grandma is getting scared by the barks, the dog decided to scare her further, it barked even more fiercely. Grandma was very frightened and she came back to the house and closed the door. The dog didnt spare her even then, it followed her and stayed just near her door and whenever she tried to open the door the dog barked and kept scaring the grandma. The grandma then started thinking how to make the dog go away. She realized that while she is afraid of the dog, the dog is afraid of the lion. So she came to her door and roared like a lion....grrrrrrr.....grrrrrrrr. The dog which was waiting on the doorsteps for the grandma, jumped. It thought, Oh, my God, it looks like a lion in staying in this house with the grandma and if grandma is not afraid even of the lion, she must be even stronger and fiercer and she must have just humored me by acting scared. Meanwhile he lion roared again, grrrrrrr behind the doors. The dog decided to go away before having to face the lion and so it ran away quickly. Grandma saw the dog running away on hearing the lion's roars and she started laughing.
Thus grandma was able to chase away the dog that was troubling her and she was able to go and buy her yellow saree.
Here is another....
Once there was a very small dog, it was called puppy and it was walking on the road. It was having an apple. A big lion came and snatched the apple from the puppy. The puppy told the lion to return the apple and it was his apple. The lion roared with laughter and refused to give it back. It said "I am a big lion, why should I give your apple back, you are so small" and ate the apple. The puppy walked away crying. It met a cat, meaw-meaw on the way. The cat asked the puppy why he was crying. The puppy told the whole story, how the lion snatched the apple and how it made fun of him. The cat consoled the puppy, it said, "Size doesnt matter. Being big doesnt mean that one can do wrong, Lets teach that lion a lesson it would remember". The puppy was bewildered. "How can I, a small puppy, teach the Big lion a lesson? " The cat told just one word, "Intelligence.". The puppy began to smile, it understood what the cat was trying to tell him and then thought of a plan. It took a plain idly(an indian delicacy, similar to pancake) and kept a green chillie inside that. It then walked towards the lion with the idly. The Lion saw the puppy coming back and this time with an idly. It smacked his lips and thought "Ah, the same puppy is coming with an idly now, I shall have that also, as I took the apple". When the puppy came near by, the lion snatched the idly and ate it hurriedly. But then, it was not just a idly, it had a hot green chillie inside it and the lion bit right into it. "Ooooooooooooooooooooooo" shouted the lion and realized that it has been bettered by the small puppy and ran off, promising that it wont trouble the puppy every after.
And more...
This one is actually an adaptation from the very famous "paati-vadai-sutta-kathai" :-)
There was once a dog, which was very hungry but didnt have anything to eat. So it prayed to God to show him some way to appease his hunger. Then it was walking on the road, it saw a grandma crying. The dog went nearby and asked her what had happened that she was crying so hard. The grandma told, "I made yellow, green and red colored poori (another indian delicacy, made of wheat, similar to a pancake that has been deep fried) and was about to eat them. Just then a crow came and took away my red colored poori and flew off. It is sitting on the green tree now.I cant get it back". The Dog consoled the grandma and told it would get the poori back from the stealing crow. So it went to the green tree where the bad crow was sitting with the poori in its beak and asked it to return the poori back to grandma as it was a bad thing to steal. The crow simply shook its head to indicate that it wont return. Then the dog thought and decided on a plan. It started flattering the crow. It said, "Oh Crow, how beautiful you are, it would be very nice if you sing a song". The foolish crow was very happy and opened its mouth to sing...kaaaa...kaaaa it went. But then the poori which was being held in the beak, fell down once the crow opened its mouth, just near the dog. The dog immediately picked it up. It was very hungry by now but it took the poori back to the grandma and gave it to her. The grandma was very happy and ate the poori. She then praised the dog and gave it one red apple as a reward. Thus the dog was able to help the grandma, earn the apple and satisfy its hunger also, by honest means. The stealing crow was left with nothing.
Here is one such story....
Once there was a grandma and she had red blue and green sarees. She didnt have a saree in yellow color, so she wanted to go out and buy an yellow colored saree. She opened the door and stepped out to go to the shop, but there was a big dog which barked at her and she got scared. Seeing that the grandma is getting scared by the barks, the dog decided to scare her further, it barked even more fiercely. Grandma was very frightened and she came back to the house and closed the door. The dog didnt spare her even then, it followed her and stayed just near her door and whenever she tried to open the door the dog barked and kept scaring the grandma. The grandma then started thinking how to make the dog go away. She realized that while she is afraid of the dog, the dog is afraid of the lion. So she came to her door and roared like a lion....grrrrrrr.....grrrrrrrr. The dog which was waiting on the doorsteps for the grandma, jumped. It thought, Oh, my God, it looks like a lion in staying in this house with the grandma and if grandma is not afraid even of the lion, she must be even stronger and fiercer and she must have just humored me by acting scared. Meanwhile he lion roared again, grrrrrrr behind the doors. The dog decided to go away before having to face the lion and so it ran away quickly. Grandma saw the dog running away on hearing the lion's roars and she started laughing.
Thus grandma was able to chase away the dog that was troubling her and she was able to go and buy her yellow saree.
Here is another....
Once there was a very small dog, it was called puppy and it was walking on the road. It was having an apple. A big lion came and snatched the apple from the puppy. The puppy told the lion to return the apple and it was his apple. The lion roared with laughter and refused to give it back. It said "I am a big lion, why should I give your apple back, you are so small" and ate the apple. The puppy walked away crying. It met a cat, meaw-meaw on the way. The cat asked the puppy why he was crying. The puppy told the whole story, how the lion snatched the apple and how it made fun of him. The cat consoled the puppy, it said, "Size doesnt matter. Being big doesnt mean that one can do wrong, Lets teach that lion a lesson it would remember". The puppy was bewildered. "How can I, a small puppy, teach the Big lion a lesson? " The cat told just one word, "Intelligence.". The puppy began to smile, it understood what the cat was trying to tell him and then thought of a plan. It took a plain idly(an indian delicacy, similar to pancake) and kept a green chillie inside that. It then walked towards the lion with the idly. The Lion saw the puppy coming back and this time with an idly. It smacked his lips and thought "Ah, the same puppy is coming with an idly now, I shall have that also, as I took the apple". When the puppy came near by, the lion snatched the idly and ate it hurriedly. But then, it was not just a idly, it had a hot green chillie inside it and the lion bit right into it. "Ooooooooooooooooooooooo" shouted the lion and realized that it has been bettered by the small puppy and ran off, promising that it wont trouble the puppy every after.
And more...
This one is actually an adaptation from the very famous "paati-vadai-sutta-kathai" :-)
There was once a dog, which was very hungry but didnt have anything to eat. So it prayed to God to show him some way to appease his hunger. Then it was walking on the road, it saw a grandma crying. The dog went nearby and asked her what had happened that she was crying so hard. The grandma told, "I made yellow, green and red colored poori (another indian delicacy, made of wheat, similar to a pancake that has been deep fried) and was about to eat them. Just then a crow came and took away my red colored poori and flew off. It is sitting on the green tree now.I cant get it back". The Dog consoled the grandma and told it would get the poori back from the stealing crow. So it went to the green tree where the bad crow was sitting with the poori in its beak and asked it to return the poori back to grandma as it was a bad thing to steal. The crow simply shook its head to indicate that it wont return. Then the dog thought and decided on a plan. It started flattering the crow. It said, "Oh Crow, how beautiful you are, it would be very nice if you sing a song". The foolish crow was very happy and opened its mouth to sing...kaaaa...kaaaa it went. But then the poori which was being held in the beak, fell down once the crow opened its mouth, just near the dog. The dog immediately picked it up. It was very hungry by now but it took the poori back to the grandma and gave it to her. The grandma was very happy and ate the poori. She then praised the dog and gave it one red apple as a reward. Thus the dog was able to help the grandma, earn the apple and satisfy its hunger also, by honest means. The stealing crow was left with nothing.
