SwitchOn! issue 1.3 | Page 49

Scott the Storyteller The Bubble Girl Once there was a little girl named Sarah who loved to blow bubbles. Not the kind of bubbles that go SLPAT on your face! The kind of bubbles you blow with a jar of bubble soap and a bubble wand with circles on the ends. Sarah would come home from school every day and run to her back yard where she would grab her bubble soap and bubble wand and blow beautiful bubbles that would dance and float around the trees and flowers. One day, Sarah came home from school and discovered her mother had brought her a present. It was a big, round bubble tray with a big, round bubble wand that fit just inside the tray. Sarah couldn’t wait to try them out. She poured some bubble soap into the tray. Then she dipped the wand into the soap. She raised it up in front of her lips and began to blow. And that bubble got bigger …and bigger …and bigger until it was bigger than Sarah herself! She gently flicked her wrist and the bubble came free from the wand and star