The Young Chronicle: For 1st Graders January 16th, 2015 | Page 5

YOUNG CHRONICLE

REACHING FOR THE COOKIE JAR

Yana could eat cookies for breakfast, lunch, a tea snack
(of course), as dinner, then dessert and sometimes, for
no reason at all. She could trade in some of her favourite
toys for a little bag of cookies.
During the summer vacations, Yana, to her poor
mother’s dread, paced up and down the house,
munching on cookies. She couldn’t read through a story
book with hundreds of pictures in it, go help daddy water
the posies in the evening, or even go skip with her
closest friends without a bag of cookies to accompany
her.
One day, after making eyes, lips and noses on chapattis
with jam during breakfast, their pet dog Skippy walked
into the kitchen as well, wagged his fluffy tail and looked
up to mummy – which meant that mummy had to reach out all the way up to the top shelf and fetch t