Short Kid Stories

Miss Mole Catches a Ghost

Quite often Miss Mole would look after the young ones who lived in the woodland, when their parents went out in the evening.

"I just love baby-sitting," sighed Miss Mole, as she gazed at the little animals, "you're all such darlings!"

"But we're not babies," grumbled the fieldmice twins, "we're almost grown up!"

"Well you'll always be babies to me," giggled Miss Mole, as she gave them all a great big hug. But one evening when Miss Mole was baby-sitting, something very strange happened ...

All the little animals had walked over to Miss Mole's house just before dark. They were laughing and joking and making lots of noise as they went along.

All of a sudden one of the rabbits heard a strange sound. Then one or two of the little animals saw something move near the top of the trees.

"What was that?" gasped a baby badger as he grabbed one of the squirrels.

Then, as the wind rustled the leaves on the tree ... they all saw it ... a spooky white thing flying through the branches!

"It's a ghost!" screamed a small hedgehog. And everyone ran as fast as they could and landed on a heap at Miss Mole's front door.

"Whatever is wrong?" cried Miss Mole as she opened her door, and in fell all the little animals.

"We've seen a ghost!" sobbed the rabbit. "It's chased us all the way through the wood, and now it's up in that tree!"

Miss Mole put on her extra strong glasses and took a good look. "Goodness me," she gasped, "there it is!"

Right then and there, brave Miss Mole reached for her longest broom and pulled something out of the branches above.

"Here's your ghost," laughed Miss Mole. "It's a plastic bag. I lost it on my way back from the woodland supermarket!"

All the little animals breathed a big sigh of relief as Miss Mole took them inside and closed the door.

"Gather round and I'll tell you a story," she said kindly. "As long as it's not a ghost story," whispered the baby badger.

Taken from 50 Bedtime Stories, 2002