Kelvin the Ice Cream Boy by Emmannuel Boadu

the ice cream

ď ľ Kelvin

Sampson a 5year old boy is a son of Mr and Mrs Peters who live in the city where there are many rich people around.

Their neighbours are very rich and live in nice-nice houses.

Other children of his age are from rich homes.

Kelvin’s neighbours house

 Kelvin’s

neighbours’ children, Mercy, Princess and Mark always enjoy eating sweets always.

Whenever they ask for it their parents buy it for them.  But

it is very bad to know that Kelvin comes from a poor home. Even the house his parents and himself live in is very poor and looks bad.

Kelvin does not get what he wants but only gets what is available to him.

Kelvin’s house

ď ľ But

there is a sweet that Kelvin always loves to enjoy because he has been seeing his neighbours children enjoying it always. He loves to eat ice cream even if is once in his whole life time. He is dying for it and wants to do everything to eat an ice cream.

 One

Saturday morning, Kelvin asked his mother;  Kelvin:

“mummy! Mummy!!, I want an ice cream, I want an ice cream”.  Hiiiiihiiiihiiii…..Hiiiiihiiiihiiii.  Cries

out Kelvin.

 Mrs

Peters: “don’t worry my son; I will buy you an ice cream one day. But for now I don’t have money”.  When

kelvin heard this, he cried throughout the day. Hiiiihiiiihiiiihiiiii!

Poor boy Kelvin crying because of an ice cream

ď ľ So

he went out to the park and sat alone thinking about how he is going to get an ice cream to eat someday.

When am I going to eat an ice cream? OH God!

 So

on the next day which was a Sunday, kelvin went to the park to play after church. When he got there he saw his neighbour’s children and other children enjoying  themselves

with ice creams.

 Kelvin

stood and said to himself; “woooooowww I wish I am in the midst of these children. Ice cream!”  Kelvin

got sad and went back home. In the when kelvin went to bed he had a dream on himself enjoying an ice cream.

Kelvin’s dream

 Kelvin

enjoyed the taste of the ice cream in his dream so much that he did want to wake from the dream.  When the mother woke him up to get ready for school he even got angry. When kelvin got school that day, when did not use his chop money to buy food. So it was closing time and Kelvin went to the ice cream vendor and bought himself an ice cream with his chop money. 

 Kelvin

took a taxi and ate the ice cream in the taxi and enjoyed himself for the first time.  So

after he finished eating it he slept comfortably in a relaxed way being so happy until he got home. 

 Kelvin

finally had a taste of an ice cream for the first time in his life leaving it all over his mouth as he sleeps comfortably in a taxi home. 

THE

END

ABOUT THE AUTHOR The author of this story book was born on the 22nd of April, 1989.

He completed his Senior High School at the Kumasi Senior High Technical School in Kumasi, Ghana. He is a Ghanaian. Emmanuel Boadu is currently a student of the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana.

He is currently reading Early Childhood Education. He hopes to in help build up the young children in Africa to become successful individuals in the future.