Too Many Carrots

Okay, our friends, so today since we are in spring, since we are heading into the Easter

Weeks, I would love to share a story with you about something you might see this season.

That's right friends, it's a story about bunny rabbits and carrots.

Today's story is called Too Many Carrots.

It was written by Katie Hudson.

It is read today by Mummy and chicken wing and a bunch of other food.

I see, I mean, that could be your menu if you're not careful, or I could give you too many

carrots.

Here for your story, let's do it.

Rabbit loved carrots.

He collected them wherever he went.

Rabbit was proud of his collection and brooded away in his cozy hole.

But Rabbit had a problem, a big problem.

And in the picture we can see him with his pile of carrots.

He is pushing them all into his house, and I think I see what the problem is, do you?

Yeah, he couldn't sleep.

His cozy hole was too crowded to live in.

Carrots are not soft vegetables, are they?

No, and they're quite pointy, aren't they?

Hmm.

I need a place to sleep.

Rabbit told Tortoise, you could share my house.

Tortoise offered, it looks cozy and snug, Rabbit said, and what is he looking at?

So tortoises and turtles, right?

Their house is on their back, right?

And they just pull inside their shell, and that's their home, right?

So Rabbit is looking down inside of there and saying, I think I could fit in there, right?

What does tortoise say?

Maybe it's a little too snug for two suggested tortoises, not at all, said Rabbit, who is

now poking carrots down inside a port turtle and trying to shove himself in there, but

oh, oh dear, oh, it's, oh, crash.

See they bonked down a hill, because you can't really fit two people in one tortoise

shell, especially not if you're going to jam up onto rabbit treats down inside of it

as well, those carrots are not going to fit.

And now he's crashed, and he's fallen, oh dear, well, perhaps we can stay in Birds Nest,

rabbit."

-"My nest is quite small, rabbit." said Bird.

-"I'm sure we will all fit!" replied Rabbit, and Rabbit hauled all his carrots up the

tree.

Whoa!

Grown tortoise and bird as the branch wobbled and swayed.

A bird's nest is really not the place for both a bird and a tortoise and a rabbit, and

500 carrots.

Don't you think?

And snapped.

Oh no, the branch has snapped and down they come CRASH!

-"I think these are one of those types of books where they keep on getting more friends,

because it's not just like, it was rabbit, no rabbit and tortoise, no rabbit and bird

and tortoise."

Yeah, they're adding more to their numbers.

-"I'm so sorry, bird.

Now three of us don't have a place to sleep." said Rabbit.

-"You can sleep in my house!" offered Squirrel.

-"Oh, thank you, Squirrel.

How kind of you!" said Rabbit.

Now, Rabbit still has all of these carrots, and tortoise has a broken leg, and bird has

a broken nest, and Squirrel's house looks lovely, doesn't it?

-"Uh, I don't think any more carrots will fit." said Squirrel, just a few more.

Rabbit replied, -"Uh-oh, whispered tortoise and bird and Squirrel because you can't

jam that many carrots into a house, can you?"

The tree that the Squirrel lives in had just enough space for the Squirrel to live, and

now because of this horde of carrots, the tree has been crack, crack, crack, crack, and

all of Squirrel's house has snapped out.

-"Now four of us don't have anywhere to sleep!" grumbled Squirrel.

-"You can sleep in my house!" called Beaver.

It has plenty of space.

-"Great, and I can bring even more carrots!" Rabbit said with a smile, and Beaver's house

is beautiful.

-"But with all your carrots, we can't fit inside!" said Beaver, a bit bewildered, and

just then the rain started, and tortoise shivered and bird, whimpered, and Squirrel squeaked,

and Beaver heard a terrible rumble as his house collapsed.

-"Oh, my friends!

You cannot put that many carrots into anything.

Beaver heard a terrible rumble, and his house collapsed."

-"Oh, no, my house!" yelled Beaver, -"Oh, no, my carrots!" cried Rabbit.

No, I have a question, can we pause really quick to ask this question?

If your friend had offered to let you stay in their home, and then their home got hurt,

would you be concerned about your things or their things?

I think I would be more concerned about my poor friend's house, because carrots you can

make, you can get those anytime you can grow those, right?

But a person's house takes so much more work, doesn't it?

And here comes the rain.

Say all the animals as they are washed away and gush into the river's edge.

The friends groaned as they swept up onto the riverbank.

Rabbit felt terrible.

His friends were cold, tired, and homeless, and it was all his fault.

Even worse, Rabbit still had all of his carrots, and his house, and that's when he realized

there was only one thing to do.

Share everything with his friends after all.

Carrots weren't for collecting, they were for sharing, and sharing made everything better.

And in the picture, my friends, he has invited them in for some carrot cake and some carrot

juice and some carrot cupcakes and all these wonderful looking things, and then they are

all cuddled up, sound asleep in his big gigantic carrot fluffy bed.

And I think they will all live happily ever after in his home as his housemates, don't you

think?

Yeah, it's nice to have a roommate, isn't it?

And that, my dear friends, is, say it with me, it's the end, anything else you want to

add?

All right, you must be hungry, the end.