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Ted‑E‑Bear’s
Blanket Fort

A four-page reading-fort story about a collapsing blanket and making room for a friend.

Read togetherFriendship4 pages
Begin the story
Ted-E-Bear, wearing his flower crown, halo and bee apron, stacks pillows between two chairs beside a folded blue blanket.
Page 1 of 4

Ted-E-Bear stacks his softest pillows between two chairs. He wants a reading fort big enough for one bear and one enormous adventure.

Ted sits under a heap of blue blanket after his fort collapses.
Page 2 of 4

He pulls a blue blanket over the top—but whoomph! It slides down and buries him in a woolly heap.

Panda-Cake holds the blue blanket while Ted sits beneath it with a lamp and an open book.
Page 3 of 4

Panda-Cake holds one corner while Ted clips the other. Inside their sturdy fort, Ted switches on a lamp and opens a story they can share.

Ted and Panda-Cake read together inside their warm blue-blanket fort as rain falls outside.
Page 4 of 4

Rain whispers at the window, but the little fort is cosy and bright. Ted decides the best forts are not the biggest—they are the ones with room for a friend.

The end · Great reading

Why did the fort stay up when Panda-Cake helped?

Show the answer

They held and clipped the blanket together. Panda-Cake held one corner while Ted clipped the other.

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