Curley Gum Visits The Park
Stories from Nutlidge – Curley Gums Visit The Park is an adventure for children from 3-8 years of age. His adventures are interactive and encourage the children to think and ponder questions.
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Curley Gum Visits The Market
One beautiful day, Curley Gum decided to walk to the Nutlidge market.
It didn’t take long to get there.
Straight away, he viewed lots of colourful items on the stall tables. Then he saw a young boy feeding the ducks by the river. He was chatting away to them and asking one of them not to be so greedy.
Have you been to a market?
What was your best memory of it?
The boy was with his pop, who was eating some fruit, and his grandpop, who was hobbling with a walking stick. They were all watching the ducks play.
Curley looked at the stall behind him and saw some framed pictures and some cocoon bags hanging up. He saw crystals, flowers, and fruits of all kinds. He was getting hungry, so he went to buy some food from one of the stalls.
Do you feel hungry when you smell food?
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Nutlidge
She looked out towards the river and saw that the Australian sun was just coming up over the cliffs, showering the tree in golden light. All the colours in the patterns turned brighter autumn shades, illuminating the tree. She walked down the branch and past a purple and lavender eagle, which acknowledged her, then continued preening its feathers. Her grandmother had told her once that eagles were a symbol of the Great Spirit, so Sky knew she was on the right track.
As Sky walked closer to the trunk, she realised that a door was embedded into it. It was a little round-topped door, about the same height as she, and had a golden gumnut for a handle. The whole door was glowing. Sky stood looking at it.
It wasn’t the first time she had been at this door. She wanted to open it and go through, but hesitated.
“This door is becoming very familiar to me, eagle.” She looked at the eagle again, which had been watching her whilst preening its purple feathers. It was tapping at the branch it was sitting on as if cleaning its beak. She felt confident suddenly.
“It’s time for me to pluck up the courage and go in, right?”