The Little

Story Who
Didn’t Want
To Be Told
by Wilf Merttens
Illustrated by Anne Holm Petersen
 Hi! This is a little story
about The Little Story
Who Didn’t Want To Be
Told.
The Red Gold He is famous. All the animals love his stories.
Dragon is a
storyteller.
He keeps his stories in his golden heart.
There are lots of stories who live there.
 The Red Gold
Dragon is
happy to tell
the mice a
story.

One day some mice are going past his tree. Hey, little mice! Go and
see if the Red Gold Dragon is in.
Inside the dragon’s golden
heart is The Little Story Who
Didn’t Want To Be Told.

He begins,
“Once upon a time…
—” but he can get no
further. The Little Story will
not come out of his mouth.
The Little Story is scared. She thinks she
is not as good as the big stories.
The dragon has messed up his
storytelling. He feels confused.

He goes to see the cat. Nice cat. Clever cat. Fat cat.
 The cat purrs when
she is thinking.

The dragon tells her all about the

mice and The Little Story Who Didn’t
Want To Be Told who was too
scared to come out of his mouth.
 The dragon thinks
about it. Yes! He
has just told it.

At last the cat speaks, “Are you sure

that you have not just told me a little
story about the Little Story Who Did
Not Want To Be Told?”
Inside his heart, The Little Story Who Didn’t Want
To Be Told is dancing around! She feels happy.
Now the Little Story believes she is a fine story. She got
told when she wasn’t expecting it and everything was fine.
 “Once upon a time there was a Little
Story Who Didn’t Want To Be Told…”

The Red Gold Dragon sits

down in front of a bunch of old
crocodiles. He begins.
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