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Jungle,Bungle,Tungle,Gungle,A Pre-story

Posted on the 16 July 2012 by Somkritya @somkritya
I love telling stories,specially when the eager ear is that of a kid and its bedtime.Kids are great story partners with superb imagination powers and what i love the most is how they would take a string or character from your story and ask you hundred things about it and by the time you realize what has happened you are already light-years away from the story you may have somehow build to get them to sleep.I call them pre-stories which sometimes start developing or taking shape as soon as you say once upon a time….Jungle,Bungle,Tungle,Gungle,A Pre-storyPre-Stroies are very interesting and full of fun,but you do need a lot of patience to let them develop.The one below is one such pre-story, a fun light tussle of imaginations…a kid happy asking questions and a mom trying to stick to the storyline :) hope you enjoy reading it -Once in a faraway land there was a junglejungle!oh yes jungle where elephants played bungleand and plants sang tungleand and oh there was a search engine named gungle*giggles*animals don’t have computeroh but they do, they doAll the people who carry their laptops to a forest,when attacked by animals,what do you think they do?They leave behind all their gadgets and run for their life( that is why when we go out we don’t carry laptops) and then animals play games on themwhat games Mommyjungle maniaand Super hyena laugh *giggles*and what do the animals search in these enginesthey look for funny human images, Read famous stories by Dr.Octofussewhat stories ?A human who said aaakchoo too many timesand the upside down people of tumblesbut why humans?well you read about animals all the time don’t youyes i do and i love reading about them and how butterflies fight with elephantswhat!!! since when, i don’t think they fight, where did you get this story?in a story book about Caterpillar who ate too may elephantsreally ?yes mommy Teacher told us caterpillar needs a lot of food to grow up and this one ate elephants and it grew big and became a big butterfly, so big that no one ever saw the sun againoh my , what happened after that!i haven’t thought of that yet,mommy where should it go?hmm what if the butterfly was sent to Jupiter I know Jupiter is biggest planetyes it is and it has 12 moonswhat does it do with 12  moonsit plays hide and seek and ping-pong andoh do you want to listen to the story of the forest or not!no i love this onehuh ,fine, 12 moons play and dance around Jupiter but why  doesn’t earth have 12 moons?Because earth is small and if it had 12 moons they would constantly bump into each other and get hurt and 12 moons would also mean too much light in the night..too much light will be bad?yes, cos then no one will be able to sleepeven with windows closedyesthen we can play In the night toono because  it’s too dar…..kbut it wont be dark you said just nowoh man! yes but moon light is for sleepingreally yes or moon feels bad if you don’t find is beautiful enough to dreamwhat dreams?of fairies and jungle where elephants play Bungleand and plants sing Tungleand and things you can find out in the Gungle

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