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A story for babies aged 3+ months / SHORT version

Emily's Story

Once upon a time there was an island. On the island lived lots and lots of tiny dwarves. They only had cows. There was hardly any grass, no fruit and no vegetables – only butter and water. The grass was given to the cows to eat. Their houses, clothes and everything else were made from butter. But they had small pets. They were called graceful fliers. The graceful fliers pulled their airships. The dwarves didn't walk anywhere. They always flew.

One day a ship with big people arrived at the island. They looked about at everything and were astonished. They gave the dwarves some cloth, which the dwarves used to make clothes. The people gave the dwarves grass and fruit seeds, which the dwarves used to sow fields of grass and grow fruit in orchards. The dwarves thought this was great. But the people were far too big for the small island. They had to leave again. As a goodbye present the dwarves gave them a couple of their graceful fliers. The people were touched by this. And so that they never forgot the island, from then on, they called the fliers butterflies.