Mel Candea
Dynamite and TNT Have a Disagreement
TNT and dynamite argue over who is better at blowing things up. They're both convinced they're better than the other. The roadworks tools step in to help decide - who do you think they chose?
Alexander – or Alec, as his family called him – was well known by his classmates and later his colleagues because his head was so busy he forgot a lot of
Alec was always a little messy and careless. If his mother asked him to pick up his room, he’d begin. And then he’d get distracted by a toy or an idea and would spend ages thinking. His room and his clothes always looked untidy. Especially with those dirty handkerchiefs thrown all over the room.
Alec was allergic, so from spring to summer his nose ran all
“I really wish my nose would stop dripping!” he’d say to himself and blew his nose for the hundredth time that day, then put the used handkerchief on the table next to
He went to school to become a doctor. He specialized in studying bacteria and natural antiseptics – things that helped destroy bacteria. In those times, people could actually die from a small finger cut if it
One day, he took a sample from a sick man’s drippy nose to collect bacteria in a small dish. It was difficult because the poor man couldn’t stop sneezing and…