The Flea, The Bee, and Me!
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.
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Oh, Waiter!
I would like bee’s knees with a side of peas and a squeeze
of cheese, if you please.
Here are the keys
to seize (with ease) the bees from the trees that make me sneeze and wheeze.
Please don’t tease
by switching fleas for bees. I prefer
bee’s knees to flea’s knees…especially with cheese!
Oh, Waiter!
Is that Brie for me—hanging in the tree?
If it’s free, I
will flee to the sea with the bee and the flea.
Please ask them to join me for tea.
The Brie is
free? I see! I will bring it with me to the sea with the
bee and the flea for a cup of tea. They
can sit on my knee!
Break off a chunk
the size of a pea, for the flea and the bee, and give the rest to me.
Now, please pour the tea and let us be!
Oh, Waiter!
I know a place
just up the street, about ten feet past the fleet, where we can meet out of the
heat. I hear they serve a real sweet
meat with ground up wheat and a big red beet.
Wow! What a treat!
Hard to beat! Take a seat, out of
the heat, just up the street, past the fleet, where you can eat sweet meat,
wheat and a beet…Neat!
Pull up a seat!
Oh, Waiter!
We are ready for
cake. Do you know how to bake? You don't! Well than, a fake cake you will than have to make.
Here, take this
rake and use mud from the lake to make the cake. We will partake of fake cake for your sake
down by the lake.
Please top it with
a marshmallow, make it yellow, and bring a bowl of Jello for that other fellow.
What homespun fun
out in the sun, but I am done, so I must run.
I’m sure I’ve gained a ton!
So with a sigh, we
bid goodbye.
Oh my! Oh my! They try and try—but ate too much and
cannot fly.
Do not cry! Do not sigh!
I will not bid goodbye, until I know that you can fly. But, on the waiter, we must rely!
Oh, Waiter!
On bended knee (as
you can see), I must plea…
Please get me, the
bee and the flea back to the tree where we got the Brie and had our tea down by
the sea and from your duties you’ll be set free! And, thanks for putting up with me.
So he lit a light, for it was night and without a fight, he
made a kite (bright and white) and stretched it tight, left to right, then tied
us to it nice and tight. What a
fright! What a sight: me, a bee and a flea in flight; at night; on
a kite, bright and white; tied real tight.
We felt so light.
The tree is in
sight, by the moon’s bright light, we’ve landed just right. Wow! What a flight! And now it’s time to say goodnight.
THE END
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