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 Life Lessons
Young children can have a hard time
dealing with change and new things—it
can take a while for them to adjust. With
reassurance and encouragement, though,
you can help them accept what’s new in
their lives and be open to other changes.
In this month’s Tex and Indi story
(pages 6–9), the children are going to
day camp. Tex is excited, but Indi is
not; when the camp looks different, she
feels anxious. Dad tells her that new and
different can be fun, too, and Indi ends
up have a fantastic time.
This story reminded me that children
need supportive interactions with adults
in order to cope with change and learn
patience and persistence as they try new
things. Then, when they are more secure,
they need us to pull back and trust them
to fly solo.
Have fun talking about what occurs
to both of you as you read the magazine
together!
Sincerely,
Richa Shah, Managing Editor
Email me at editor.genies@delhipress.in
Cover art by Sonal
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Let’s Read Together

4 Anteater’s Chant
5 The Adventures of Spot™ page 20
6 Tex and Indi™: New Can Be Fun
12 Bert, Beth, and the Sandcastle
20 Meera and Kiran: Time to Help, Time to Play
26 Night Journeys

Let’s Puzzle It Out

10 My First Hidden Pictures™ Puzzle
16 Beavers, Beavers page 24
18 That’s Silly!™
24 Look and Look Again: Wash Day

Let’s Do It
31 Night Sky Mobile
32 Warm Up for a Jog page 32
34 Tricolor Pizza
35 Zigging and Zagging

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Anteater’s Chant
By Heidi Bee Roemer • Art by Gary LaCoste

Don’t give me a burger or a pile of fries.

I’d rather have ants any color or size.
Ants by the barrel! Ants by the ton!
Ants in a row that march one by one.

With a flick of my tongue, I lick them up whole.

Ants tickle a little as—whoops—down they go.
Ants by the bushel! Ants by the bunch!
Any chance you would care to join me for lunch?

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 By Marileta Robinson • Art by Ron Zalme

The sun sinks behind the trees.

The birds settle

down for the night.

The squirrel snuggles in its den.

The chipmunk climbs into its burrow.

Yawn! It’s bedtime for Spot, too.

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New Can Be Fun
By Lissa Rovetch • Art by Amy Wummer

Tex and Indi were on their way to day camp.

“I loved camp last summer,” said Tex.
“Me, too,” said Indi. “I hope everything is
exactly the same.”
“Some things will be the same and some things
will be different,” said Dad. “Just remember,
different and new can be fun, too.”
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 x and Ind
e

i
When they arrived, Indi looked around.
The counselors were all new, and so was the rec center.
“Yikes, everything looks different,” she said.
“My stomach hurts. I think I need to go home.”
Just then, a friendly teenager wearing a silly hat
came over. “Hi. I’m your camp counselor, Jumping
Jack. You’re just in time for the name game!”
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 The campers formed a circle and called out their
names as they tossed a big beach ball back and forth.
The kids laughed a lot. Before long, Indi forgot she
ever had a stomachache.

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 “So how was the first day of camp?” Mom asked
when she picked up the twins that afternoon.
“Fantastic!” said Tex.
“Super fantastic,” said Indi. “Dad was right.
Different and new can be fun!”
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 My First

Puzzle
Find t h ese objects hidden in the big picture.

Pizza Tube of Paint Cup Horseshoe

Pencil Rabbit

Toothbrush Flag Bandage

Dickory, Dickory, Dare

Poem and Art by Mary Sullivan

Dickory, dickory, dare,

the pig flew up in the air.
She circled the town,
then came right back down.
Dickory, dickory, dare.
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Bert, Beth, and
the Sandcastle
Story and Art by Valeri Gorbachev

Bert and Beth were having a great day at the beach.

They played in the water. They ate lunch. And then
they decided to make a sandcastle.
“Let’s make a really big one this time,” said Beth.
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 When they had finished, Bert said, “Grandpa, look!
Do you like our sandcastle?”
“Wow,” said Grandpa. “That’s the biggest one
you’ve ever made. It looks like a real castle.”
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 He walked around the castle and then peeked
in one of the windows. “I would love to live
there,” said Grandpa.
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 “You can’t live there,” said Bert. “Our castle is
not big enough.”
“But don’t worry, Grandpa. Tomorrow we will
build a bigger one—just for you,” said Beth.
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Beavers,
Beavers
By Robin Blasberg • Art by Zachariah OHora

Beavers, beavers
cutting wood,
leaving stumps
where tall trees stood.

Busy building
dams and homes,
mud-packed lodges
shaped as domes.

Sensing danger?
Need to hide?
Slapping tail
means get inside!

How many words in

the poem end with s ?
How many S ’s can
you find hidden
in the picture?
What else do
you see?

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 hat’s Silly!
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Art by Katie McDee

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 W hat
silly things
do you see?

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 Time to Help,
Time to Play
By Marianne Mitchell • Art by Sonal
Meera and Kiran

Meera and Kiran were excited: they were going to Natraj

Textiles nearby all by themselves. Mom had asked them to
get one meter each of green, saffron, and white cloth.
On their way there, Meera and Kiran skipped and sang,
“A meter of saffron, white, and green cloth each.”
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 Soon Kiran saw his friend Yash.
“Would you like to play hopscotch?” Yash asked.
“Sorry, I can’t. I’m going to the market,” said Kiran.
He kept on walking and singing, “A meter of saffron, white,
and green cloth.”

Then Meera saw her friends Ashna and Dhruv.

“Would you like to play catch?” they asked.
“Sorry, I can’t. I’m going to the market,” she said.
She kept walking and singing her song.
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 When they arrived at the market, Mr. Dhariwal greeted them.
“Hello, Meera and Kiran. What would you like?”
“A meter each of
saffron, white, and green
cloth,” they said together.
Mr. Dhariwal cut their
cloth and handed it to
them. They paid for the
cloth, put some in each
of their bags, and skipped
back home.

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 “Thank you,” Ma said when they got back. “You’re great
helpers! Would you like to help me sew the flag, too?”
Meera and Kiran thought for a minute. They loved helping
Ma but they also loved playing with their friends. Finally, they
said, “May we go and play?”
“Of course you can go play,” said Ma. “You’ve already
helped me a lot.”

“Thank you!” said Meera and Kiran, and they ran outside to
play with their friends.
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Animals on Parade
Art by Sonal

How are these pictures the same?

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 Look and
Look Again

How are they different?

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Night Journeys
By Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu • Art by Claudine Gévry

Where do we go when we go to sleep,

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After saying “good night” and counting sheep?
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Over the rainbow? Beyond the stars?

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We travel miles without going far.
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 Then when the moon and the morning sun meet,
We wake to find we’re still between sheets.
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Night Sky Mobile By Edna
Harrington

You Need Before You Begin

• Pencil • White glow-in-the-dark paint Adult: Use a pencil to draw a moon and
• White craft foam • Paintbrush two stars on the craft foam. Cut them out.
• Scissors • Yarn
• Hole punch • 12-inch stick

3. Cut three
pieces of yarn.
Tie one end of
each piece
to the stick. Thread
the other ends through the holes
in the moon and stars and tie in place.
1. Punch a 4. Tie a long piece of yarn to both
hole in the top ends of the stick. During the day,
of the moon
and stars.
2. Cover both sides of the hang your mobile where the sun
moon and stars with paint. will shine on it. At night, hang it in
Let dry. Then paint both your bedroom.
sides again.

Photos by Guy Cali

Associates, Inc.

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Warm Up for a Jog
An Action Rhyme
By Dianne Moritz
Art by Erica Sirotich

Reach arms high,

bend
down
low.
Stretch
sideways,
to and fro.

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 Photos by Guy Cali Associates, Inc.

Walk in place
fast, then slow.

Touch your knees.

Get set, go!

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Tricolor Pizza
You Need
• Parchment paper
• 340-g fresh pizza dough
• 2 tablespoons
unsalted butter, melted
• Kiwis, bananas, and
oranges, sliced
• 2 tablespoons chaat masala

Before You Begin

2. Brush the dough
Adult: Preheat the oven to

1. Stretch or roll the pizza

190 degrees Celsius. Line
a large baking tray with
parchment paper.
with the butter.
dough into an oval, and
place it on the baking tray.

3. Arrange the
oranges, bananas and
kiwis on top. Sprinkle
the chaat masala over
the fruits.

4. Bake the pizza for

20–25 minutes or until the
dough is golden and the
fruits begin to bubble.

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Photos by Delhi Press Studio.
Zigging and
Zagging
Art by David Coulson
Photo by Guy Cali Associates, Inc.

Jack is building
a zigzag path.
What did he put
next to his path?
What will you put
near your
zigzag path?

Trace the dump truck’s

tire tracks. Where do you think
the truck is going?

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