One day a big fat tick that had fallen from a dog’s ear, was waiting for the dog to come back and lie down so she could climb back in. A cat that was passing by saw her and asked: “What are you doing all-alone on the ground? A tick on the ground is like…
One day all the animals from the wood met up in the same place! They wanted to decide whether the wood should continue to go this way or that way. There was one of them for every species. The blackbird was there with the hare, the porcupine and the mole, the rat and the screech…
One day it so happened that a colony of ants, as black as asphalt, had taken refuge in an old iron pipe clotted with rust that lay by the side of the road. A broom bush full of yellow flowers, sticky with mould and old leaves had sprung up next to this pipe. Who knows…
There once lived a shepherd named Ambrogio, who was so very, very kind and lived on the top of a long grey mountain. One day while he was watering his sheep in a little stream, he noticed the twigs of small bush move and heard a soft, but gloomy wail. He was frightened and quietly…
And there was once a wolf that seemed strange to the eyes of those who saw him. But he really was remarkable; with the strength of his teeth and a monkey’s agility he was able to catch so much game, but then after having eaten just a bit, he would save the rest, afraid that…
And one day, who knows how it came about, there was peace between the foxes and chickens! The foxes could no longer eat the chickens! Who knows why, maybe the farmers had intervened… However, it was like, like…I don’t know why this was so! The chickens could happily scratch around here and there, and the…
It so happened one day that a tortoise, neither old nor young, was just outside the verge of a hedge, drinking the droplets of dew from the tiny leaves of a wild rocket plant. While it was chasing the crazy droplets which dripped down from one leaf to another, with its frenzied and unruly tongue,…