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How Otto Brought the Sun Back to Plov

Story Stats

Rating: 5
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5
Page count: 5
Categories: Folk Tale, Humor



Appeared in

Cricket Magazine Vol 34, Num 1, Sept 2006

Story Summary

The people of Plov had never experienced an eclipse before and afterwards were in mortal fear of the sun going out forever. Looking at all of the things happening in the village just before the sun disappeared and eliminating them one by one as the cause, the Mayor realized that just before the sun went out it was the first morning that Otto's goat had not gotten into his garden. So from that day forth he welcomed Otto's goat, and even though he never harvested any vegetables, the sun never went dark again.