Please help me identify this story.
Posted: 19 Apr 2015, 16:16
Hi there forum, I hope that everyone is good.
I sincerely hope that you can help.
I am trying to find a short story that I can remember reading from my childhood and after searching for what feels like forever I think that it is Lazy Luke by Enid Blyton.
The only thing is that I cant remember very many details about the story except for,
It was in a large red hard back book with colour illustrations (I am guessing that this was one of the daily mail childrens books that reprinted some of Enid Blytons stories)
It was two to three pages long but we are talking about memory not being what it was so in that I could be wrong.
It showed two or three coloured illustrations one of the bigger boy in the story looking down on the younger one who was laying on the floor.
And so to the meat of the story, from what i remember it was the tale of a young, selfish, lazy boy who wouldn't help his mother with house work and be generally good for her. She said that if he didn't help maybe she would get another little boy in to help her.
Lo and behold the next day a new lad turns up at the home and helps his mother with all the fetching and carrying and various chores. At one point our boy tries to intervene but the mother sternly tells him "No, you can do what you want now, you don't have to help me, I have ........ to help.'
This upsets our young friend and he decides that aggression and fighting is the only way forward so confronts the new kid (I have a memory that maybe the new kid is fetching washing in from the garden at this point) but because the new kid is bigger and stronger it just ends up with our hero laying on the floor. He heads for the bedroom and a unhappy night alone pondering the error of his ways.
In the morning, rested and willing to change his ways he says sorry to his mother, and fetches her a blanket or an apple and this is the start of him doing the 'right' thing.
The other little boy leaves (for the orphange, childrens home) with the threat of coming back and staying permanently if ever he slips back into his idle ways, and that he should be grateful for having such a wonderful mother.
Throughout the story I can not for the life of me think that the father of the household was mentioned.
I was looking through some of her works the other day online and i recognised the story about the little boy who will not go to bed and wants to stay up all night. He has a spell put on him to make him dance and to tire him out doesn't he? Well the story that I am trying to find was written in a similair style and ilk.
Am I right is this the Lazy Luke story, have I got it mixed up with another EB short or do i have the wrong author (I hope not).
Thanks in advance for your help.
I sincerely hope that you can help.
I am trying to find a short story that I can remember reading from my childhood and after searching for what feels like forever I think that it is Lazy Luke by Enid Blyton.
The only thing is that I cant remember very many details about the story except for,
It was in a large red hard back book with colour illustrations (I am guessing that this was one of the daily mail childrens books that reprinted some of Enid Blytons stories)
It was two to three pages long but we are talking about memory not being what it was so in that I could be wrong.
It showed two or three coloured illustrations one of the bigger boy in the story looking down on the younger one who was laying on the floor.
And so to the meat of the story, from what i remember it was the tale of a young, selfish, lazy boy who wouldn't help his mother with house work and be generally good for her. She said that if he didn't help maybe she would get another little boy in to help her.
Lo and behold the next day a new lad turns up at the home and helps his mother with all the fetching and carrying and various chores. At one point our boy tries to intervene but the mother sternly tells him "No, you can do what you want now, you don't have to help me, I have ........ to help.'
This upsets our young friend and he decides that aggression and fighting is the only way forward so confronts the new kid (I have a memory that maybe the new kid is fetching washing in from the garden at this point) but because the new kid is bigger and stronger it just ends up with our hero laying on the floor. He heads for the bedroom and a unhappy night alone pondering the error of his ways.
In the morning, rested and willing to change his ways he says sorry to his mother, and fetches her a blanket or an apple and this is the start of him doing the 'right' thing.
The other little boy leaves (for the orphange, childrens home) with the threat of coming back and staying permanently if ever he slips back into his idle ways, and that he should be grateful for having such a wonderful mother.
Throughout the story I can not for the life of me think that the father of the household was mentioned.
I was looking through some of her works the other day online and i recognised the story about the little boy who will not go to bed and wants to stay up all night. He has a spell put on him to make him dance and to tire him out doesn't he? Well the story that I am trying to find was written in a similair style and ilk.
Am I right is this the Lazy Luke story, have I got it mixed up with another EB short or do i have the wrong author (I hope not).
Thanks in advance for your help.