The little pine-tree A little pine-tree stands in the forest. It has no leaves, it only has needles. The little tree says, “I don’t like needles. I want leaves. The other trees in the forest have nice green leaves. I want to be like other trees.”
When night comes, the little pine-tree goes to sleep. Then a fairy comes and gives it nice green leaves. In the morning the little tree sees the green leaves and says “thank you” to the fairy.
In the afternoon a brown horse comes into the forest and eats all the leaves off the little tree. Then the pine-tree says,“I don’t like green leaves, I want glass leaves.”
At night the fairy comes and gives the pine-tree glass leaves. In the morning when the little tree sees its glass leaves, it is very glad. (115-words)
When it rains “It’s very cool afternoon. The weather is bad. I don’t know what to do today,” says Dan.
“Let’s watch TV or play,” says his sister. The children play with toys on a big table. After that they take a thick book with a lot of pictures in the book are beautiful and the children look at them with pleasure. Then their mother comes into the room. She brings some cake on a plate and two glasses of milk for the children.
“Thank you, Mum,” say the children. “You have come just in time. We have finished talking about a very interesting picture. In this picture there is a family at table. They are eating cake.”
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John Cheever John Cheever was born in 1912 in Massachusetts, USA. He was educated in England. John Cheever’s first short story was published when he was sixteen. Since then he has published five collections of short stories and some satirical novels. The first of his novels, “The Walpole, received the National Book Award in 1958; The Wapshot Scandal” published early in 1964, was an immediate critical success. The method of revealing the feeling and thoughts of his heroes through a series of meaningful details and episodes is a distinguishing feature of John Cheever as a short story writer and humorist. (77-words)