The School Garden Carrots
A free A2-level English story for language learners, readable online in 4 languages, with an option to listen via the free Storyteller app.
Dagny and a friend look for clues when someone eats the carrots in the school garden.
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Dagny's class planted carrots in March. Every morning, they watered the plants and counted the green leaves. Then, one Monday, half of the carrots were gone.
"Who did this?" their teacher asked.
Dagny loved mysteries, so she asked her friend Pascal to help. They looked at the ground next to the garden beds.
"Look," said Dagny. "There are small holes next to every plant."
"And here are footprints," Pascal said. "They are tiny. Not a person's."
"Not a dog's, either. Too small." Dagny thought for a minute. "A cat does not eat carrots."
Pascal had an old phone. That night, he put it in a plastic box. He tied the box to a post by the garden. He set it to take a photo when something moved.
The next morning, they looked at the photos. Most were dark and empty. But one photo, from three in the morning, showed two rabbits. Each had a carrot in its mouth.
"Our thieves have long ears," Pascal said. They laughed so hard that the teacher came over.
The class talked about it. They did not want to hurt the rabbits. So they made a plan. They built a low fence of wood and wire around the beds. Then they planted extra carrots outside it, just for the rabbits.
On Friday, two rabbits sat outside the fence. They ate their own carrots. Dagny waved at them.
