The secret garden

The secret garden

6-8 ans - 14 pages, 555 mots | 7 minutes de lecture | © Le Regard Sonore, pour la 1ère édition - tous droits réservés


The secret garden

The secret garden

There is no rain in sight and Moko is worried. He decides to go and ask the advice of an old wise man who is said to be part magician, part sorcerer. Further confused by the wise man’s explanations, Moko heads nevertheless for the sand dunes. Far in the distance he sees a strange apparition: a cluster of trees around a small lake. He starts to run towards the apparition but no sooner has he begun his run that he can no longer see his destination. Disappointed, he sits on a rock and rests. A woman carrying a jug full of water on her head walks over to him and explains that he simply has to look in the right direction, and there, in the distance Moko sees the lake once again. He decides to head for it while never losing sight of it this time. On his way back to his village, he drops a trail of leaves to be able to return to the lake, but the wind quickly wipes away all of the leaves. Moko thinks that the desert shared a great secret with him and that it is best to keep it to himself.

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The secret garden A tale by Arnaud de Buchy Pedagogical content by Emmanuelle Reyss & Jean-Baptiste Lorenzo Illustrated by Sonia Grandame & Joachim Hérissé Le Regard Sonore Editions


The secret garden
One morning, it was so warm that the sun, though barely over the horizon, was already drying the ground and the fields all around Moko's village.
Worried that there was no water, Moko went to the village magician's house. "Can you make rain, or find water underground for us?" Moko enquired. "My child, what you're looking for, you can find yourself; follow the trail of dunes, it will lead you to the sea of sand." "And if you know how to look, you will find." Moko didn't really understand what the magician said, but he started to follow the trail of dunes.
The sun burn down and not a breeze nor a cloud in the sky eased his trip. Moko told himself that he probably wouldn't find anything, and he wanted to head back to his village. Suddenly, something strange appeared in the distance.