1066 All Stars

Sally The Sheep lived with Mummy Sheep and Daddy Sheep in Grumblypots Farm.

Sally liked to run around the fields and chase the cows, baa at the ducks and lick the fingers of little children who came to visit the farm.

But what Sally loved to do most of all was eat grass.

She would eat grass for breakfast. She would eat grass for lunch. She would eat grass for dinner. She would even eat grass for pudding.

But one thing Sally didn’t like to do was share.

One morning, Gordon the Goat trotted into Sally’s field.

‘Can I have some of your grass?’ asked Gordon.

‘No,’ said Sally, as she munched on her grass.

Later that afternoon, Colin the Cow wandered up to Sally.

‘Wow,’ he said, ‘that grass looks really tasty. Can I please have some?’

‘No,’ said Sally, ‘it is all mine.’ And she munched and munched.

That evening, Robbie The Rabbit hopped into Sally’s field.

‘Hi Sally,’ said Robbie. ‘Mind if I have some of your grass?’

‘No, no, no!’ shouted Sally. ‘This is my grass. I’m going to eat it all!’

And with that she munched and she munched and she munched, eating as much grass as she could so that no one else could have any. That night, Sally went to bed with a big tummy full of grass.

‘Yum, yum,’ said Sally to herself. ‘I do love eating grass. Tomorrow I think I might have double helpings before anyone else asks me if they can have some.’

The next morning, Sally woke up early to make a start on the grass. But when she got to the field, all the grass was gone!

‘Mummy, daddy!’ cried Sally. ‘All my grass has gone! Where is my grass? What am I going to eat?’

Mummy Sheep trotted over. ‘Sally, you were so determined not to share your grass with anyone that you ate it all. Now you don’t have any left.’

Sally looked at Mummy Sheep. ‘But I’m so hungry,’ she bleated. ‘What will I have for my breakfast?’

‘Well Sally,’ said Daddy Sheep, ‘you will have to go and ask one of the other animals if they will share their grass with you.’

And so Sally set off down the path to find the other farm animals.

At the first field, she found Gordon The Goat.

‘Hello Gordon, may I please have some of your grass?’ asked Sally.

‘No,’ said Gordon, turning away from Sally and eating his grass.

Next, she found Colin The Cow.

‘Hi Colin, you have lots of lovely grass here. May I please have some,’ she asked.

‘No,’ said Colin. ‘This grass is mine.’

It was getting late and Sally was starting to feel really hungry now so she trotted over to Robbie The Rabbit.

‘Robbie, Robbie, I’m so hungry. Won’t you please share your grass with me?’ she asked.

‘No, no, no,’ said Robbie, hopping across the field.

Sally trudged away. She was so hungry. She had been walking all day and hadn’t had a thing to eat. She didn’t understand why no one would share with her. She sat down and started to cry.

Just then, a little voice piped up. ‘What’s the matter Sally?’ It was Deborah The Deer.

‘Oh Deborah,’ sobbed Sally. ‘I ate all my grass and now there is none left. No one else will share with me and I’m so hungry.’

‘Well,’ said Deborah, ‘you cannot expect someone to share with you if you don’t share with them.’

Sally looked up at Deborah. ‘No,’ she said, ‘you are right. It was selfish and mean of me to eat all of the grass by myself. Oh I wish, I wish that I still had some grass and I would share it with the whole farm.’

Deborah smiled. ‘I think you have learnt your lesson,’ said Deborah. ‘Here, you can share my grass.’

Sally stopped crying and gave Deborah a big kiss on the cheek before munching on some grass. ‘Oh thank you Deborah,’ Sally exclaimed. ‘I will only eat as much as I need, I don’t want to be greedy.’ And after eating her dinner, Sally wandered back to her field.

The next morning, Sally was woken with a start. It was Mummy Sheep.

‘Sally, come look, your grass has grown back.’

Sally rushed out to the field and saw green, green grass growing across the hills.

‘Wow,’ she said, ‘look at all that grass.’

But before eating any of it, she started off down the path.

‘Where are you going?’ asked Daddy Sheep. ‘Don’t you want to eat your grass?’

‘Back in a minute, shouted Sally over her shoulder.

As she walked down the path, she found Gordon the Goat.

‘Gordon, I have some lovely new grass in my field, won’t you come and eat some with me?’

And before he could answer, she was off until she found Colin The Cow.

‘Colin, oh Colin, I have some lovely new grass in my field, please do come and share it with me.’ And as Colin looked up shocked, Sally set off down the path again until she found Robbie The Rabbit.

‘Robbie, I have lots of new grass, there is far too much for me.’ And then she was off down the path.

Finally, she found Deborah The Deer.

‘Hello Sally, what are you doing here?’ asked Deborah.

‘Oh Deborah,’ said Sally. ‘All my grass has grown back and there is far too much for me so I have invited all my friends to come and eat it with me. Won’t you come and join us?’

Deborah smiled and nodded and together they walked back to Sally’s field where Gordon, Colin and Robbie were eating the grass.

‘Sharing is fun,’ said Sally, smiling as she ate her grass. ‘I will never be selfish again.’