Assorted Tales for Children
The Little Green Dinosaur
Once upon a time, there lived a little green dinosaur.
This dinosaur lived in a big house, in a big town.
The dinosaur did not have any friends though,
because his mummy and daddy and he were new to town.
One day the little green dinosaur was running all around his house. "Wheeee! Wheeeeeeee! Look mummy!"
His mother loved the little green dinosaur, but she grew awfully tired sometimes,
"Go outside and play, and make new friends" said his mother.
"But make sure you don't go over the big hill!"
So the little green dinosaur went outside, and he explored the neighbourhood.
He went next door, and he saw Mr T-Rex who lived there and sometimes scared the little green dinosaur with his big teeth.
He went to the shops, and he saw Mrs Triceratops the greengrocer who had a lettuce stuck to one of her horns and looked funny.
He went to the main road, and he saw Mr Brachiosaurus the policeman who had such a long neck that he could see everyone.
But the little green dinosaur couldn't see any other little dinosaurs who he could be friends with.
"Oh bother" said the little green dinosaur. "I wish I had some friends! We could play hopscotch, and tag and all sorts of games."
"I'll go for a walk", he said to himself. "I'm sure to meet someone, somewhere."
And so the little green dinosaur went for a walk, and he walked and he walked and he walked.
Eventually the little green dinosaur realised that he had walked so far, he couldn't see the town anymore.
A big hill was in front of him though, so he thought to himself,
"If I go on top of that hill, I'll be higher than Mr Brachiosaurus the policeman, and I'll be able to see my house".
So the little green dinosaur set out for the hill, completely forgetting his mother's warning not to go near it.
As he grew closer though, he could hear strange sounds from the other side of the hill.
"Vroooooooooom! VROOOOOOOOOOOM! BEEEP BEEEEEEEEEEP!"
"Oh dear oh dear oh dear, what is that scary noise?" the little green dinosaur thought.
The noise got closer and closer, it reverberated through the little dinosaur's body like firecrackers on New Years.
Suddenly the very earth roared, and a shape flew over the hill towards the little green dinosaur,
"WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" came a shrill voice.
With a big WHUMP the shape landed the ground. "Oh boy, that was fun! I want to do it again" said the shape.
"Wha... wha... What are you?" asked the little green dinosaur.
"What am I?" asked the shape. "What are you?! You're green, thats silly!"
"I'm silly? Well at least I'm not red like you, because everyone knows red is really silly!" cried the little green dinosaur.
"I'm really silly? Well at least I don't have short little arms and a stubby tail you like, because thats super silly!" shouted the shape.
"I'm super silly? Well at least I don't have big fat wheels and a big stinky engine, because thats super duper silly!".
The little green dinosaur and the shape stared and stared at each other for a long time.
"Well I'm super duper silly, the little red monster truck!" said the shape, and it blared its horn and span around in a circle.
The little green dinosaur had never heard of a monster truck before, but his mummy and daddy had raised him politely so he replied
"Well I'm super silly, the little green dinosaur!" and he bared his teeth and wiggled his little arms.
"Would you like to be my friend?" asked the little green dinosaur. "I don't have any friends, because I'm new".
"Ok little green dinosaur, I'll be your friend" replied the little red monster truck. "Where do you live?"
The little green dinosaur suddenly remembered his mother's warning not to go over the hill, which he had done!
"Oh no oh no oh no, my mummy said not to go over the hill, and I have! Oh she'll be in a bother if she finds out!" he cried.
"Oh dear oh dear oh dear" replied the little red monster truck. "My mummy said the same thing!".
The little green dinosaur and the little red monster truck looked quite distraught as they imagined the terrible things their mothers would do if they found out.
"I've got a good idea!" yelled the little green dinosaur. "I won't tell your mummy if you don't tell my mummy, and then we won't get in trouble."
"Oh wow thats a great idea! Now we can play hopscotch, and tag and all sorts of games together!" replied the little red monster truck.
And so the little green dinosaur and the little red monster truck played and played and played, until the sky grew dark.
"I guess I'd better go home now" said the little green dinosaur. "Will I see you tomorrow?" asked the little red monster truck.
"Oh yes, I'll be here tomorrow, and the day after and the day after that and the day after that. We'll be very best friends!".
The little green dinosaur turned around and went down his side of the hill, whilst the little red monster truck turned around and went down his side of the hill and they both went home.
The next morning the little green dinosaur woke up and raced out of his bedroom, excited to see his friend again.
"Ho-ho, where do you think you're going little green dinosaur? You were out very late last night" said mother dinosaur.
"Oh mummy, I made a friend yesterday!" replied the little green dinosaur. "That's wonderful news little green dinosaur, who is your friend?"
"Oh mummy, he's so cool. He has great big wheels which he can go VROOO-"
"GREAT BIG WHEELS??? FATHER DINOSAUR COME IN HERE RIGHT THIS MINUTE!!!" shrieked mother dinosaur, clasping her hands to her breast.
Father dinosaur harrumphed and he clumped down the hall, grumbling about hysterical women. "Whats the matter dearest?" he enquired.
"Our little boy! Our little green dinosaur! He's been playing with a great dirty MONSTER TRUCK!!!"
"A monster truck?! Those lazy good-for-nothings! They don't do a honest days work in their lives, and breed like rabbits!" exclaimed father dinosaur.
Mother and father dinosaur made such a ruckus that all of the townsfolk gathered around to see what the trouble was.
"I say I say" cried Mrs Tricaeratops the greengrocer, "whatever is the matter?" "Monster trucks!" wailed mother dinosaur!
"Monster trucks?! Why they'd sooner blow diesel smoke all over you than tell you the time of day! Those rascals, coming over the hill and terrorising innocent folk" growled Mr T-Rex.
Commotion ensued amongst the townsfolk and they ran hither and thither in confusion and bewilderment.
At last Mr Brachiosaurus the policeman plodded his way onto the scene and he scanned the crowd from high up in the air until he saw the little green dinosaur.
"What do you have to say for yourself hmmm? Been fraternizing with enemy have you lad?" He boomed right in the little green dinosaur's face.
"N... n... no! No sir, I just been playing with the little red monster, no fratnerizing or nothing like that sir" squeaked the little green dinosaur in terror.
"Well we'll just have to see about that won't we. Everyone, we will go to the hill and we will see what the dastardly monster trucks have to say!"
With a great grumbling and muttering and murmuring of the dangers of monster trucks, the entire town set out for the big hill.
The little green dinosaur followed along discontently, already mourning the loss of his only friendship in this new town.
"Oh this is tiresome! I found a friend and these blasted busy bodies are going to ruin it. How I wish a great big rock would land on their heads!"
As the hill hove into view, a great big honking and whistling and revving could be heard, amidst yells warning of the dangers of dinosaurs.
"Those stinky dirty dinosaurs, they don't even polish their hide! They just sit down in a pile of muck and call it home!"
Gasps arose from the entire town as these foul words were heard. Mother dinosaur quickly covered the little green dinosaurs ears.
"I heard dinosaurs just lay eggs" cried one voice from over the hill to a chorus of gasps, "they don't even have factories over there."
By this stage Mr T-Rex had been getting angrier and angrier until he roared as loud as he could, and ran towards the top of the hill waving his stubby arms.
With a CRASH! and a BOOM! and a KA-BLAAM! the dinosaurs and the monster trucks charged into each other and started fighting.
Mr T-Rex bit off a big yellow monster truck's side mirror, and stomped on it. The monster truck responded by rolling over his feet.
A big scary black monster truck, with fire painted on the side came charging down the hill and hit into Mr Brontosaurus the policeman who fell to the ground with a mighty THUD!
Mrs Triceratops the greengrocer lowered her head and gored an onrushing monster truck, spilling petrol everywhere.
"Oh no! Oh bother! Oh dear!" wailed the little green dinosaur. "Stop! Don't do that! What's happening?" cried the little red monster truck.
"Somebody do something!" "Anything! Anything at all to stop this!" they cried in unison, unable to bear the carnage unveiling before their eyes.
Suddenly the little green dinosaur, and the little red monster truck spied something speeding towards them in the sky.
All around them, the fighting continued and no-one listened to their desperate cries that danger was approaching and they must run and hide.
Thud!
BOOM!
CRASH!!!
WHAM!!!
A meteorite plummetted to earth, and crushed dinosaur and monster truck alike beneath it as it bored towards the center of the Earth.
A shower of debris followed closely, and peppered the little green dinosaur and the little red monster truck as they ran for safety.
"Everyone I know is d... d... dead!" cried the little red monster truck. "Everyone I know is crushed!" wailed the little green dinosaur.
"This is all your fault!" "My fault? This is your fault!" they screamed and roared at each other, thrashing around in the undergrowth.
The little green dinosaur drew himself up to his full height, and he roared "If I ever see you again, I'll rip off your tires and smash your headlights!"
"If I ever see YOU again, I'll drive over your tail and choke you on diesel smoke!" honked the little red monster truck.
These two friends of purest innocence were turned to evil by their surroundings. They only wanted to play, but hatred and bigotry subverted them.
In time their rivalry grew even more fierce and violent than that of the generation before, and nevermore did a little green dinosaur play hopscotch, and tag and all sorts of games with a little red monster truck. |