Action Annnie
Story Two
“Annie's Snowman"
By
William Forde
Cover Illustration by Dave Bradbury
Copyright December 2011 by William Forde
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Author’s introduction
“I believe that all things that bring pleasure and happiness into the life of a child, possesses its own spiritual dimension in the world of that child, especially in the magical mind of an imaginative child like Annie."
William Forde: December 2011.
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Annie woke up and ran to her bedroom window. Her face broke into a big smile as she yelled out gleefully, "Hurrah, it’s snowing! Hurrah for Annie!" Outside, everything was covered in a blanket of white.
Annie dressed quickly and ran downstairs. A minute later, she was in her red wellies and out of the door.
"Good old Saturday!" she said. "No school and all day long to play in the snow."
Although this was the first snow of the year, Annie had waited for this day for a long time. You see, she was now seven-years-old and she had never built her own snowman. In previous years, her parents had always helped her to build one. But she had promised herself that ‘this year’ she would build her very own snowman; all by herself.
Annie felt the snow. It was nicely dry, just the right sort of snow for building a snowman. She was determined to build the very best snowman that had ever been built. Her mother made her eat some breakfast and wrap up warm before she started. As Annie quickly ate, she kept her eyes on the kitchen window. The snow kept coming down, like cotton wool from the sky.
"Oh, I do hope it doesn't stop snowing," she said. "I hope it snows all day long."