The Penguin by Jasmine & Zohar
It is interesting to note that these two children arrived wearing the same colour T-shirt. Sometimes I notice a certain harmony between the children in the way they dress, very often I notice the children have the same colour of dress as I.
“It was very joyful to be with the children, they were in a high mood. Jasmine and Zohar wrote a story called ‘Penguin’ after having played it out in the sand tray. They want me to put the pictures with it, make it into a book. There were clearly many moments of learning and discovery for Zohar: the discovery of how to make a pond by scooping out the sand, how to use a signboard as a shovel.” — Journal
Here is the story:
Long, long ago there was a tiny town where only 2 people lived. They had only one re, one restaurant and a shoe shop. In this town there was a hidden treasure. Nobody knew where it was hidden. The two people caught penguins to make soup but unfortunately there was only one penguin in this village!
Every time they caught the penguin, it escaped. Soon they became tired of trying to kill it, and decided to keep it as a pet. One day their fire blew out and they decided to search for the treasure hidden in the village. They heard that the hidden treasure was actually a key to a place with fire. They told the penguin to go and search for the treasure. He actually found the key in the back of a statue, but he knew that if he gave it to his owners, they would not let him sit next to the fire, because he is only a pet, who eats fish and stinks.
So instead he opened the door to a land with a tree, with a fire beside it. He made his house in that land and stayed warm for the rest of his life. But he felt sad for his owners. He returned to them to light their small re and then returned home to his big fire. The penguin lived happily ever after yet occasionally he went back to visit them. The end.
This story has been taken from the book “Glimpses of Wonder“.
