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    Stories for Children of All Ages
    Stories for Children of All Ages
    Stories for Children of All Ages
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    Stories for Children of All Ages

    By Conrad Alan Istock

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    Most of the stories here may initially seem to be just ordinary ones for children, but they really are for children of all ages, as the book title suggests. By this, I mean that all of them have deeper ideas or meanings. Some show us how some animals can be much like humans in ways they think, communicate, or show hard work and devotion to different tasks or challenges.

    Other stories have various humans as the main characters. All through these stories, we see many kinds of challenges and difficulties we all face as humans in our modern world. In several places, stories bring in scientific information or reasoningscience fiction, if you wish.

    As one proceeds through this sequence of stories some may become more difficult depending on the actual age of the reader or listener. Simply chose the ones that are best for you and leave harder ones for another time. The last story about Apollo is quite brief.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMay 21, 2016
    ISBN9781524608910
    Stories for Children of All Ages
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    Conrad Alan Istock

    Conrad Alan Istock is an author and a professor at Cornell University. He has written both fictional stories and nonfictional articles. Over many years he was a research scientist studying population and evolutionary biology. Many of his stories are science fiction. He has a website, sornea.com, with many of his writings.

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      Stories for Children of All Ages - Conrad Alan Istock

      AuthorHouse™

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.authorhouse.com

      Phone: 1 (800) 839-8640

      © 2016 Conrad Istock. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or

      transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 05/21/2016

      ISBN: 978-1-5246-0890-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5246-0891-0 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2016907739

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      Contents

      Toad on the Road

      Amazing Asasha, Beautiful Grypido

      Linnea and Peep

      Alusia and the SnowWoman

      Where We Come From

      Two Worlds For Amanda, Ortiso, And Others

      Almost Alone

      Most Amazing Dog, Apollo

      Foreword

      Most of the stories here may initially seem to be just ordinary ones for children, but they really are for children of all ages, as the book title suggests. By this, I mean that all of them have deeper ideas or meanings. Some show us how some animals can be much like humans in ways they think, communicate, or show hard work and devotion to different tasks or challenges.

      Other stories have various humans as the main characters. All through these stories we see many kinds of challenges and difficulties we all face as humans in our modern world. In several places stories bring in scientific information or reasoning—science fiction if you wish.

      As one proceeds through this sequence of stories some may become more difficult depending on the actual age of the reader or listener. Simply chose the ones that are best for you, and leave harder ones for another time. The last story about Apollo is quite brief.

      Toad on the Road

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      Until now her life had been entirely in the pond, living underwater, eating green stuff growing all around in the pond. She did not really like the green stuff, but some kinds tasted a little better than others. It was a fairly safe life for a tadpole. Although, there were some dangers. Like the time a big snapping turtle showed up, and tried to eat her. Or when the big water bird landed, waded through the shallow water, and almost grabbed her with its beak. But most days were calm and safe, as she grew larger, day after day, for two years.

      Then, one day she noticed four small bumps growing out along the lower sides of her body, two on each side. At first this was scary, because they had appeared so suddenly, and she had no idea what they were. Each day they were becoming longer. Then, the ends became broader, and she could see small, stubby fingers developing along the ends of these four long bumps. But they really weren’t like bumps anymore. Though quite different, they were more like the legs small turtles in the pond used for swimming or walking along the bottom. The turtles had two front legs and two back legs, just like she now seemed to have.

      She tried moving these legs back and forth, and realized she, too, could swim with them. Then she noticed her tail was shrinking, soon she could no longer use it for swimming. When her tail was gone completely she realized she could use her legs not only to swim, but to also walk along the bottom. Suddenly one day, she couldn’t breathe under the water anymore. This forced her to the surface where she gulped air. It was the first time she had done that. Now, she always breathed that way, and after that she stayed in shallow water among the weeds so she could breathe just by lifting her head up into the air. She did not feel safe among the dense weeds at the edge of the pond. Other animals might come along, and try to eat her before she spotted them.

      In a few days, right at the edge of the pond, she raised her head to breathe and squirmed forward onto land. She moved ahead with short hops. It felt like a completely new and exciting life. A swarm of small flying things came up in front of her. She grabbed one into her mouth. It tasted good, and she thought, I can eat these, they taste much better than that green stuff. She ate another one, then another, and another. Soon she was nearly full. She moved farther and saw a large, bright red bug on a leaf. She snapped it into her mouth. It tasted horrible, and she spit it out.

      Shortly, she reached the edge of the road, and looked all around. Everything was strange. Trees lined both sides of the road, but they were different from the trees around the pond. There was a long stretch of lush grass and plants with bright flowers among the grasses. All of it was new and strange. Beyond the grass and flowers was a gravel strip that was not very nice to walk or hop on. From there she went right onto the road.

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