Violet is bothered by something she doesn’t understand: love. What is it and what does it look like? Do you have to buy someone a bunch of roses if you want there to be love at home? To answer her worries, she and her daddy play a game of detectives, and together they find out whether there’s any love at home or not, and if so, what it actually looks like. Let’s join the three of them and find out!
It was raining. Huge raindrops were splattering against the windows of the nursery school, buffeted by the gusty wind. Violet’s dad helped her fasten her bright, sunshine-yellow raincoat. But Violet didn’t look very bright or sunny. Her face was more like one of the gloomy grey rain clouds.
“What’s up, Violet?” he asked with concern, giving her cheek a stroke.
Violet said nothing at first, because she didn’t know where to begin. But then she fixed her doubtful eyes on her father and said: “Daddy, do we have any love at home?”
“What’s made you wonder that?” he asked.
“Well, today we were talking about love. Mr Burnham said there’s a special day when everyone celebrates love. Katy said that she and her brother stick hearts in the windows at home, and Theo said that his dad gives his mum a bunch of roses, and… and… I don’t really know what love is, Daddy. If we haven’t got roses or heart shapes at home, where is our love?”
Her father laughed. “Why don’t we play detectives?”
Violet was intrigued by that idea. “Detectives? How?”
“We’ll go looking for love!” he declared, sweeping her into his arms and running out through the school doors into the rain.
Once they were back home, he put Violet down on the sofa and wrapped her in a soft blanket to warm her up. “We have our first clue!” he announced. “When you love someone, looking after them and helping them out makes you happy. That’s also why I’m going to go and make a cup of tea for Mummy. She should be back from work any minute now.”
“Is that the second clue?” asked Violet excitedly. She was really enjoying this game – and it looked like they…
Readmio is an app full of fairy tales and bedtime stories with sounds activated by your voice. Many stories are free, new stories are added every week.
