An Afternoon in June
Written and Illustrated
By
Dianna Lynne Wood
© For Squirrel, Designs – (Wood) Kane
2004
Note to the Parent
or Educator: This story book is much more
than just a delightful rhyming story It is an interactive educational book that is
designed to increase your child’s vocabulary, improve communication, gain a
better understanding of rhyming words and sounds, and promote and develop your
child’s natural creative talents. It is
recommended that you first read the story to your child. Pause at any words that may not be familiar
to them and provide a definition only after asking them if they know what a
word might mean. After reading the story
through once, go back to the beginning of the story and review the sets of rhyming words
out loud with your child.
One afternoon
in June, at the blue lagoon on a sand dune, I speared a prune with my harpoon
and ate a macaroon on a teaspoon while holding a balloon and watching a cartoon
with a loon, Calhoun the raccoon, and Neptune
the baboon.
Calhoun the
raccoon began to croon at the harvest moon while the loon (a buffoon, who lived
in a platoon, and wore a pantaloon) played a tune on his bassoon.
Can we go at
high noon with Calhoun to the saloon to meet the tycoon with the spittoon and
the silver spoon?
“No. He’s on his honeymoon; but, he’ll be back
soon”, said the loon.
Let us then go
see the Kangaroo named Bartholomew from Katmandu
Perhaps he’ll
grant an interview! I hear he’s quite a
buck-a-roo! He even eats honeydew and
Irish stew and cooks a cashew on his barbeque.
Isn’t a barbeque in an igloo, taboo?
“How do you
do?” said the kangaroo. My Shih-Tzu ate
glue on a tennis shoe after curfew in Honolulu
Perhaps my
nephew, the cockatoo with the corkscrew hairdo who speaks Hebrew, will know
what to do. Go get the canoe!
“We need a brew
for the flu caused by the glue from a tennis shoe. What can you do?
Well,
cock-a-doddle-doo! I’ll make a
brew!
Take your canoe
to Malibu
I’ll need
bamboo, a little shampoo, a rusty screw, some mildew, a tennis shoe, some
mountain dew, and an emu.”
Yes that will
do. Shall I review?
No, we’ll take
the canoe to Malibu
So, he made the
brew and with it we flew in the canoe with the emu to the Shih-Tzu in the
igloo.
This brew is
for you!
The rusty screw
was hard to chew, but we just knew the brew would do and he would be as good as
new.
“Peek-a-boo and Yippy-ya-hoo” said the
Shih-Tzu, “I’m good as new!”.
“Thank
You! Thank You!” said the kangaroo! What a grand crew, true-blue. Now he won’t miss his big debut! He plays kazoo and does soft-shoe with a
cockapoo at the zoo in Peru
and now they want him in Timbuktu
We all sat down
to Irish stew and honeydew in a see-through igloo with the kangaroo and the emu,
while the Shih-Tzu gave a preview of his debut and played his kazoo. We even had blue fondue!
Even after all
of that hullabaloo—we finally got the interview!
THE END
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