ERIKA D.

MY WAY AROUND THE WORLD

3

SWEET LAND



Collection: My way around the world (9

books)

Original title: Moja pot okoli sveta First electronic edition: Železniki, 2024

Published by Erika Drobnič

Canva illustrations

Published on Amazon.com, Kindle books Kataložni zapis o publikaciji (CIP) pripravili v Narodni in univerzitetni knjižnici v Ljubljani

COBISS.SI-ID 192955139

ISBN 978-961-07-2068-3 (KPF) Without the written permission of Erika Drobnič, reproduction, distribution, public communication, processing or other processing of this author's work or its parts in any scope or process, together with photocopying, printing or saving in electronic form within the framework of the provisions on copyright and related rights, is prohibited.

The path around the world is a path we walk from birth onwards. The countries that the main character visits in the story are different periods of our lives. The experiences in these stories show our perception of life in a humorous way. For example, the land of the giants is the period when we are babies or small children and everything around us is huge and upside down when viewed from the stroller. In each country, we also learn a new Spanish word.

Read all the stories and find out for yourself in which period of your trip each country is. I wish you lots of fun reading and don’t forget to learn all the Spanish words.





OH YES, MY FEET WERE ALREADY

HURTING, AND MY STOMACH WAS

RUMBLING WHEN I FINALLY ARRIVED

IN A NEW LAND. BUT FIRST I SAW

HUGE LOLLIPOPS AND CANDIES, AND

COLORFUL TREES GREW CAKES AND

CUPCAKES. "HELLO, HELLO, IS ANYONE

HERE? WHERE AM I, CAN ANYONE HELP

ME?"





I SCREAMED AT THE TOP OF MY

LUNGS, BUT NO ONE ANSWERED ME.

AFTER A WHILE, I SAW A GIANT PILE OF

FRUIT IN FRONT OF ME. YUM, YUM, HOW TEMPTING. I CLIMBED ON IT

AND STARTED SMACKING LOUDLY. I BIT INTO THE BIGGEST RASPBERRY

I'VE EVER SEEN, CREAM WAS ALL

AROUND ME, AND ICE CREAM AND

CRUMBS! YUM, YUM, YUM.





SUDDENLY, A STRONG VOICE IS

HEARD: "GET OUT OF MY FRUIT PILE!"

"WHAT, WHO, WHERE?" I ASKED, LOOKING AROUND. A TINY LITTLE MAN

CRAWLED OUT FROM UNDER THE ICE

CREAM, NO BIGGER THAN MY THUMB.

"HA, HA, HA, WHAT ARE YOU FUSSING

ABOUT, LITTLE ONE? YES, WHAT ARE

YOU GOING TO DO TO ME?" I ASKED

BRAVELY.





AT THAT MOMENT, THE MAN GREW A GIANT HAND AND THREW ME OUT OF

THE FRUIT PILE. IT'S A GOOD THING

THERE WAS A SOFT PURPLE FOAM

UNDERNEATH, OTHERWISE I WOULD

HAVE BEEN IN PAIN ALL OVER. I PICKED

UP MY SHAKEN BONES AND

WHATEVER ELSE I HAD WITH ME, AND

RUN AS FAST AND AS FAR AWAY AS

POSSIBLE. WHO KNOWS, I THOUGHT TO

MYSELF, WHAT ELSE WILL HE GROW, AND THEN GOD FORBID I BE

ANYWHERE NEARBY.





I WALKED ALONG THE SWEET PATH, I SAW ICE CREAM MOUNTAINS AND

TOWERS OF CAKES, A FIELD OF JELLY

CANDIES AND BUSHES OF SWEET

COOKIES EVERYWHERE. NEAR THE

CHOCOLATE RIVER, I WANTED SOME

CHOCOLATE, BUT I REMEMBERED THE

LITTLE MAN AND DID NOT DARE TO

JUMP INTO THE RIVER.





"SWEET DAY, TRAVELER, WOULD YOU

LIKE TO HAVE A DRINK?" SAID THE

LITTLE LADY WHO WAS SITTING ON A GIANT LOLLIPOP. "UHM, WELL, YES, IF

YOU ALLOW ME, MA'AM," I ANSWERED

SLOWLY. AND SHE LAUGHED AND SAID

TO ME: "SURE, WHY NOT, WE CAN ALL

BATHE IN THE RIVER." "OH, I THOUGHT SOME MAN WAS GOING TO

ATTACK ME LIKE HE DID IN THE FRUIT

PILE."





"I ALREADY KNOW, YOU MET OUR TOM, HE IS SURE THAT THAT PILE IS ONLY

HIS. IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, BUT WE

JUST LET IT GO, SO WE CAN HAVE

PEACE. THERE ARE STILL PLENTY OF

FRUIT PILES IN OUR COUNTRY." THEN

I JUMPED INTO THE RIVER AND

DRANK CHOCOLATE, BECAUSE I WAS

THIRSTY FOR THREE DAYS. SOON, MY

STOMACH WAS AS FULL AS A BARREL.





"COME, I'LL TAKE YOU HOME, YOU CAN

STAY WITH ME AS LONG AS YOU

WANT," THE LITTLE LADY TOLD ME.

OH, I THOUGHT, IT'S WONDERFUL

HERE, I'D STAY MY WHOLE LIFE. CAKES

AND ICE CREAMS EVERY DAY, AND

CANDIES AND LOLLIPOPS INSTEAD OF

VEGETABLES. MMMM, THAT WILL BE

LIFE. ALL THE HOUSES WERE MADE OF

CAKE. HUGE, BUT THE PEOPLE ARE

ABSOLUTELY TINY.





I ASKED THE LITTLE LADY, WHY DO

THEY HAVE SUCH BIG HOUSES WHEN

THEY THEMSELVES ARE SO SMALL. SHE

TOLD ME THAT THIS IS BECAUSE

WHEN THEY GET ANGRY, THEY

BECOME HUGE AND WOULD TEAR

DOWN THE HOUSE IF THE HOUSES

WERE SMALL. "AH, I SEE," I SAID, "DO

YOU OFTEN GET ANGRY?" "OH, NO, ALMOST NEVER, IN FACT MOSTLY

NEVER, ONLY OUR TOM GETS ANGRY."



I LIVED IN THE LITTLE LADY'S HOUSE

AND ATE DELICIOUS CAKES EVERY DAY.

I SLOWLY BECAME LIKE A ROUND

BALLOON. OH, IT WON'T GO ON LIKE

THIS ANYMORE. I MUST GO TO NEW

LANDS WHILE I CAN STILL WALK, I SAID

TO MYSELF ONE DAY AND SAID

GOODBYE. THE LITTLE LADY MADE ME

A SPECIAL CUPCAKE THAT WOULD

NEVER RUN OUT OF IT. I THANKED

HER AND WENT ON MY WAY.





Do you remember the first

time you tasted sweets? Have you ever had a tummy ache

from eating too much?

The following story can be

found in Book 4, entitled:

MAUSE HOTEL