Read Children Story
Dandan the Mouse refused to go to school. No one knew exactly when it started, but whenever Dandan thought about school, his head felt like it was going to explode, so he adamantly refused to go.
Instead, Dandan carried a small bag on his back, rode an old bicycle, and started selling sunflower seeds from one village to another. It wasn’t because his family was poor and couldn’t afford school, but seeing some of his fellow mice selling sunflower seeds, pouring them into other mice’s hands, and putting the money in their own pockets sparked a sudden desire in him to sell sunflower seeds too.
With sunflower seeds on his back and a box his mother had glued together from paper, Dandan began his journey. He traveled from one village to another, surrounded by the village mice. He poured sunflower seeds into their hands, put the money into his own pocket, and his face was beaming with joy.
Dandan even went to the school to sell sunflower seeds. He squatted under the shade of a tree at the school gate, waiting for his classmates to come out of the classroom after class, and started shouting, “Sunflower seeds, sunflower seeds…” His classmates would gather around him, laughing and buying sunflower seeds.
Suddenly, one of the classmates noticed the “Claw” sign hanging on Dandan’s bicycle and asked who “Claw” was. Dandan laughed and said it was “sunflower seeds,” then embarrassedly scratched his head. He had written “Claw” instead of “sunflower seeds.”
From then on, whenever Dandan came to sell sunflower seeds, the classmates would shout, “Claw is here, Claw is here…” Dandan would smile awkwardly, then, blushing, he would hurriedly push his old bicycle and run away.
Dandan once pronounced “Mountain Range Village” as “Mountain Love Village,” and read the word “scorching summer” as “drunk summer.”
One time, an illiterate old mouse asked Dandan to read a letter sent by her son who was working away from home. Dandan couldn’t recognize most of the characters on the letter, and though he stared at it, he couldn’t read its content, sweating profusely.
The old mouse, seeing Dandan sweating like rain, thought he was sick and quickly took him home, giving him water and finding medicine. At this moment, Dandan’s smile looked more pained than crying.
Eventually, Dandan stopped selling sunflower seeds. He threw the seed bag and the paper box far away. He picked up his school bag and went back to school.
Thank you for reading! ” Sitestorys “
