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Animal pets like cats, horses, birds, dogs... are man’s best friends. But books also make very good friends.
If you like animals and also reading, then you for sure like stories about animals, right?
I then have a surprise for you... Every month my “boss” will tell you here at Barry4Kids a different story!
Nothing more than nothing, the short story of this month, is by an unknown author.
My dear "boss" rewrote it and translated it so that you and other children and young adults may enjoy reading it.
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We often hear people saying that children don’t read any more; that they only watch tv and play with Nintendo...
I don’t share that view at all; I believe that children may on the contrary create reading habits thru the internet.
So please don't forget to speak with your school fellows and your teachers about Barry4Kids! Will you please give them the address too? Thank you.
Reading is not a mere row of letters forming words, it is a way of discovering hidden worlds that you would otherwise ignore for ever...
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Nothing more than nothing
"Tell me, my friend, how heavy is a snowflake?" a coal tit asked a wild dove.
"Nothing more than nothing", the dove replied.
"Then let me tell you a wonderful story", the tit said.
"I was once sitting on a branch of a fir tree when snow began to fall, not heavily, not in a raging blizzard - no, just feathery snowdrops.
As I had nothing better to do, I started to count the snowflakes falling on the twigs of my tree.
Their number had already reached three million seven hundred and forty thousand nine hundred and fifty-two when one more snowflake
– nothing more than nothing, as you say – dropped onto the branch and the branch broke off."
And having said that, the coal tit flew away.
An authority on the subject since Noah’s time, the dove thought about the story for a while and then said to herself:
"Maybe there is just one more man’s voice lacking for Peace to come to the world."
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