Millyandtheblueberrythieves

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Milly and the blueberry thieves

Milly comes out of the wood. It‘s sunny and she really wants to play.

Milly and the blueberry thieves

Hey it is Billy my best friend!

HOP!

But who‘s that jumping through the meadow?

Maybe it‘s…

Wow! This is great!

It‘s great fun.

Why don‘t you try?

Up we go!

Hi Milly, …I‘m bouncing!

Hi Billy, what are you doing?

Sure, let‘s go!

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Billy takes a death-defying leap.

He‘s really brave!

Look out!

And now: a double somersault!

Uh…

Billy jumps, does one twist then another and...

…lands on top of Milly!

No! I have to pick blueberries for Mrs Caterpillar. She wants to bake a cake.

We need a lot.

They have to be big and really ripe

Shall we try again?

I know where to find them... come with me!

Where have they all gone?

They fly over the woods to a large bush…

??

But... …not even a single blueberry!!!

What a disappointment! Whatever‘s happened?

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Look, here are the tracks!

It must have been a greedy spider!

Hmm…, there are lots of little footprints

Somebody‘s stolen all the blueberries!

There‘s a piece of blueberry in the grass…

...another one…

Now what can we do?

The tracks end here!

Something‘s moving up there.

Let‘s have a look!

…they follow the trail left on the ground

Milly gets Milly getscaught caughtup up in a spider‘s spider‘sweb! web!

Keep still, I‘ll get you out!

Help!

…they fly up the tree…

Nana Spider comes out of a hole in the trunk

I haven‘t seen anybody. My spectacles are old, they need replacing…

What‘s going on?

Who‘s broken my web?

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We‘re sorry Nana Spider, but we‘re looking for the blueberry thieves.

Have you seen them?

But I heard someone going past, they were heading for the broken birch tree...

A fisherman is mending his net on a riverbank.

There are the tracks, let‘s go

Fly! Close to the birch tree struck by lightning, the two friends pick up the blueberry trail.

Good morning Mr Cricket, have you seen anyone with some blueberries?

They must have crossed the river. Let‘s follow them!

Hmm, I don‘t know...

Blueberry thieves!!!

Maybe it‘s best to ask the fisherman...

No blueberry thieves, though...

But...?

This morning there were some rafts moored there.

Now they‘ve gone, somebody took them to go down the river

Hurry up Billy!

If I find them...

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There are the rafts!

And the thieves?

Where are the blueberry thieves?

A little further on, there‘s an ant colony. The worker ants are carrying the blueberries while the guards stand watch.

Excuse us, are those blueberries?

Of course, we brought them here…

... to make blueberry jam for the cold season Not just for us, for other people as well…

Our little ones love jam, and the winter is long...

How selfish!

You could have left some for us…

Sorry, but could you give us a few blueberries to take to Mrs Caterpillar?

She wants to make a cake and...

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No, no, that‘s impossible

We‘re sorry, but we need them

But that‘s not enough, we have to make blueberry juice as well!

At least a dozen...

Please, be generous, give us a little bag...

All right, I‘ll give you two.

One for you and one for your friend

Actually...

You‘re right... well how about giving us all the blueberries we can carry when fl ying?

Where‘s Billy going?

Psst…

OK, you can‘t carry more than two anyway...

I said one each!

Besides, you couldn‘t carry any more …

stream… cricket…

He, he…

I‘ll be right back!

Here we are!

Bye bye...

Billy comes back with the fisherman‘s net...

They‘ve tricked us!

They fill up on blueberries.. and off they go to see Mrs Caterpillar

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Now let‘s bake that cake.

Aren‘t you clever, look at those beautiful blueberries!

Not for Milly, she is a coeliac and can‘t eat cakes!

Mix serie Pâtis

True, I am a coeliac but I can eat all the cakes I want...

... as long as they‘re made from gluten-free flour

Mmm…, what a delicious smell…

What a beautiful cake!

Gluten-free blueberry cake is wonderful!!!

The End

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