The Wild Christmas Reindeer

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by Shannon McCallum1 view·Updated Dec 12, 2021
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  1. Hi jim and Marta, Happy fourth advent.
  2. Um,
  3. today we're going to read you a little story
  4. called the wild christmas reindeer by jan Brett.
  5. Let's go over
  6. to the story.
  7. Mm hmm.
  8. All right, let's make a little bigger. The pictures are super cool.
  9. So there's lots and lots of detail.
  10. All right. The wild christmas reindeer by Jan Brett,
  11. How
  12. Tika was excited and a little afraid
  13. this year santa had asked her to get the reindeer ready to fly on christmas eve.
  14. Tika had never done this before and she wanted everything to be perfect.
  15. Tika lived up in the arctic in the shadow of Santa's winter farm.
  16. The last of the snow geese had flown south and everyone's mind was on christmas.
  17. The workshop was alive with the sounds of saws, sawing, hammers,
  18. hammering and brushes painting as they all work to have
  19. the toys and presents ready for delivery on christmas eve.
  20. Tika knew it was time for her to go in search of the reindeer.
  21. They had been out on the tundra wild and free since last christmas
  22. and Tika was sure they wouldn't want to go back to Winter farm to train.
  23. She would have to be strong and firm
  24. at last she found them
  25. ramble and heather
  26. winds that swept in like and
  27. snowball craig
  28. twilight and tundra,
  29. you know,
  30. Tika took a deep breath and shouted,
  31. let's go move, move, move
  32. the reindeer were bewildered by tickles voice.
  33. Their heads went up to see who this loud creature was
  34. but they let her herd them together and headed back toward winter farm.
  35. Tundra gave her the most trouble.
  36. Tika didn't know what,
  37. I know that he considered himself the leader and was not used to being bossed around.
  38. He liked to stay next to twilight,
  39. but she was separated from him and running near the front.
  40. When they got to the barn, Tikka put them in different stalls.
  41. Tundra snorted impatiently,
  42. mm hmm.
  43. Okay.
  44. By the next morning when Tikka went into the barn,
  45. all the reindeer were restless and upset.
  46. Lincoln was frightened of craig who kept nipping at him.
  47. Ramble was so worried. She drove heather wilde
  48. and twilight kept calling out to Sandra who
  49. was just playing angry and stamping his hopes.
  50. Mhm.
  51. Tika groomed eat reindeer.
  52. She wanted them to look sleek and glossy for santa.
  53. one x 1,
  54. she brushed and combed their coats and pushed and pulled at their tangled manes.
  55. She brushed so long and hard that their ears started to turn pink.
  56. Tika took the reindeer outside.
  57. Now she was ready for the real training to begin
  58. snowflakes dance in the areas.
  59. She tried to stand them in two lines and put on their harnesses
  60. but they wouldn't stay lined up.
  61. She had put tundra at the back with heather instead of at the front with twilight.
  62. So he kicked out at heather who then bolted into bramble.
  63. Tika scolded the reindeer.
  64. Don't move, she cried,
  65. but they all ran off wild eyed
  66. and she had to go after them and bring them back
  67. the next day.
  68. Tika harness the reindeer in the barn before taking them out into the snow.
  69. Everything went right until she got them lined up outside and tried
  70. to steer them first to the left and then to the right
  71. to make the slave fly. They would need to pull together smoothly,
  72. but everything went wrong.
  73. Tundra crashed into heather, snowball, blew up at bramble,
  74. windswept knocked over twilight and then like unlocked antlers with craig.
  75. Mhm.
  76. Mhm
  77. Stop! Tika cried as she watched the reindeer of paul, the air
  78. unhook! She shouted
  79. as they tried to free their long antlers.
  80. Then like an and craig fell over into the snow.
  81. The harder they pulled, the more their antlers locked.
  82. The reindeer were frantic. Antica only made it worse by yelling at them.
  83. Tundra and heather rushed to help, but the antlers did not break free,
  84. windswept nudged at Lincoln and bramble ran to help craig,
  85. but the more they tried to help, the more they got tangled up themselves,
  86. their next strained and their muscles bulged but their antlers did not budge
  87. tickle world. Oh please! It's almost christmas eve,
  88. but the reindeer could not move.
  89. A frosty silence hung in the air.
  90. Take a look at the tangled reindeer once so bold and free and began to cry.
  91. It's my fault, she said
  92. I've spent all my time yelling at you instead of helping,
  93. I'm sorry
  94. And one x one, she gave each, each reindeer a hug
  95. tomorrow. She said, we'll go to work in a new way.
  96. No yelling, no screaming, no bosses.
  97. I promise.
  98. Let me try to help you get free.
  99. Yeah,
  100. the reindeer listened to this new voice.
  101. Heather's eyes sparkled,
  102. craig cracked a reindeer grin,
  103. bramble giggled and snowball side
  104. tundra laughed and twilight smiled.
  105. The more they laughed, the more they shook and as they shook
  106. their antlers rattled and rubbed
  107. and before Tika could do anything, she heard a spring spring sprung
  108. sound.
  109. It was the antlers jiggling free.
  110. Yeah,
  111. quietly Tika led the reindeer back to the barn.
  112. She sleep their coats.
  113. She gently brushed their ears and combed out. Their maids
  114. tundra nuzzled her cheek.
  115. Yes,
  116. the next day
  117. the reindeer lined up in two lines ready for the harness
  118. with twilight and tundra leading the line.
  119. They practice turning left and they practice turning right,
  120. Tika directed them softly.
  121. Tundra pulled for twilight,
  122. bramble was gentle to like him.
  123. Windswept helped heather and snowball nestled against craig
  124. together. They practice long and hard.
  125. They didn't notice that I was getting dark and
  126. they almost didn't hear a jingle in the distance.
  127. It was santa standing by the slave piled high with presents and ready to go.
  128. Yeah,
  129. now the reindeer were ready to.
  130. Antica, led them to the slave
  131. santa, smiled and nodded his things.
  132. Then he climbed aboard and waved to Tyka
  133. who watched as the wild reindeer rose up together
  134. and carried the sleigh offensively. Nights
  135. merry christmas.
  136. Okay,
  137. so I hope you like the story and perhaps you learn something from it too.
  138. More flies with honey than vinegar,
  139. Yep. Okay, so I have a great 4th advent by.