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The Giant in Three Worlds 

Once upon a time there was the giant Leo-Sofi, who was half female and half male.

They lived in a house high up: high up to the sky! No, actually, up to the moon!

The Sofi part was a doctor and the Leo part was a fisherman: Sofi had a white shoe with a red cross on it, Leo had a blue boot with a little orange fish drawn on it. They ran very slowly, because they were very heavy and had to be careful not to fall down and step on the others, crushing them like pancakes and not being able get up anymore.

It happened that the day was going well, but then it went a bit wrong, because the giant reached the beach and dove in for a swim and met a shark that is bigger than them. The shark ate them all up, whole! But the giant was too big and (the shark) vomited them into the sea.

So they swam away and a current dragged them to the village where the turtles lives, but they were afraid of crushing them. They put on their light shoes that make them light-weight, because they were magic and so they didn’t risk breaking the turtles' shells. They greeted the turtles then continued their journey and arrived on a beach.... They were in another country: the country of lions! There were many lions and they asked them ‘Please, can you take me home?’ but (the lions) didn’t understand them. So the giant made a gesture of friendship and they shook hands. The lions with a small roar asked them ‘What's your name?’ which is to see if they were from another country, because the giant was a human and the lions were animals.

So (the lions) realised they weren’t a lion and took them to the land of giants where all the giants were without shoes and socks: they were barefoot! The giant Sofi-Leo had shoes, but when they arrived they asked, ‘Why don't you have shoes?’                                      

‘Because we aren’t afraid of thorns!’ then the giant also took off their shoes as a sign of friendship.

Then (the giants) said ‘Good morning’ ‘Welcome’ ‘What’s your name?’ and they said their name, so they get to know each other and asked if they could play with them.

A giant asked them ‘Will you be my friend?’ and they said ‘Yes!’ and they made friends and said nice things to each other like ‘I love you’ and ‘You’re my heart's friend’.

Children from 3 to 5 years old from the XXV Aprile Municipal Preschool

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