Monika Cavojova
The Fidgety Thoughts
This bedtime story explores what it’s like inside a child’s mind in the evening, where fidgety thoughts find it difficult to settle down and get ready to sleep.
In a kingdom far away, there once lived a
When the princess wasn’t knitting and embroidering, she would usually be looking after the horses in the royal
Despite this, the princess sang merrily to anyone she
The queen also praised her. “Oh, my dear child, what a wonderful voice you have,” she gushed, whenever the princess started her out-of-tune croaking. How come the queen couldn’t hear
The one person who didn’t pretend to like the princess’s singing was her father, the king. After all, what kind of a king would he be if he lied?
“Have you all gone deaf?! The howling drives me crazy. Whenever she starts singing, all the birds in the garden fly
“Oh, dear husband, you’re old and your ears aren’t what they used to be,” she protested, defending their daughter.
“I might be old, but my ears…