Amazing Daisy!

Daisy stands outside her chicken coop.

Once upon a time on a little farm near a little village there lived a little chicken called Daisy.

The other chickens laugh as Daisy tells them her plans.

“When I grow up, I want to fly high, high into the sky,” Daisy said.

But all the other chickens laughed at her.

The other chickens tease Daisy. Her mother comforts her.

“You are so weird,” they said. “We won’t play with you anymore.”

“Daisy, we can all flap our wings but it’s very difficult for chickens to fly,” Mama told her.

All alone, Daisy practises flying outside the chicken coop.

Daisy wouldn’t give up.

Every day she practised by herself, flapping her wings.

Flap, flap, flap, she would flap her wings but she couldn’t lift off the ground.

Daisy imagines herself flying.

While she practised, she imagined herself flying high into the sky and looking at the chickens below.

She imagined herself flying past the sparrows and past the swallows.

“Wow!” the birds would say. “A chicken that can fly!”

Daisy flaps her wings. Daisy crashes to the ground.

So … Flap, flap, flap, every day Daisy would flap her wings.

She would lift off the ground but fall down again.

Daisy complains to her mother.

“I’m never going to fly!” Daisy cried to Mama. “The others are right.”

“Daisy, you are different from the other chickens. They don’t want to fly but you do! You can do it,” Mama said.

Daisy climbs the wall of the chicken coop.

The following day Daisy climbed to the top of the chicken coop and flap, flap, flap, she flapped her wings.

She flew into the air and flapped her wings …

and flapped her wings …

and flapped her wings

and …

Daisy falls on the ground with a thud.

BAM! The other chickens laughed out loud.“Ha ha ha! We told you! Chickens can’t fly!”

Daisy flaps her wings and stays in the air.

But the next day Daisy climbed even higher, right up to the top of the rondavel.

Flap, flap, flap, Daisy flapped her wings.

She flew into the air and flapped her wings … and flapped her wings … and flapped her wings and …

Daisy confidently flies alongside a swallow and a sparrow.

She kept flying!

The wind beneath her wings grew stronger and she flew higher and higher!

The sparrows and the swallows said, “Amazing! A flying chicken!”

The other chickens climb to the top of the chicken coop.

And the other chickens wanted to be just like her.

They said, “Oh Daisy, you’re amazing!”

Amazing Daisy

Created by Nozizwe Herero, Siya Masuku, Leona Ingram

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