Margot Sunderland - Teenie Weenie in a Too Big World: A Story for Fearful Children

Teenie Weenie
in a Too Big
World

Margot Sunderland

Illustrated by

Nicky Armstrong

Helping Children with Feelings Series
Storybook & Guidebook Sets

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Willy and the Wobbly House ISBN 978 0 86388 498 6
Helping Children who are Anxious or Obsessional ISBN 978 0 86388 454 2
A Wibble Called Bipley (and a few Honks) ISBN 978 0 86388 494 8
Helping Children who have Hardened their Hearts or Become Bullies ISBN 978 0 86388 458 0
A Pea Called Mildred ISBN 978 0 86388 497 9
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Helping Children who Bottle Up Their Feelings ISBN 978 0 86388 457 3
The Frog who Longed for the Moon to Smile ISBN 978 0 86388 495 5
Helping Children who Yearn for Someone They Love ISBN 978 0 86388 456 6
Teenie Weenie in a Too Big World ISBN 978 0 86388 460 3
Helping Children with Fear ISBN 978 0 86388 464 1
How Hattie Hated Kindness ISBN 978 0 86388 461 0
Helping Children Locked in Rage or Hate ISBN 978 0 86388 465 8
Ruby and the Rubbish Bin ISBN 978 0 86388 462 7
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The Day the Sea Went Out and Never Came Back ISBN 978 0 86388 463 4
Helping Children with Loss ISBN 978 0 86388 467 2

First published 2003 by Speechmark Publishing Ltd.

Published 2017 by Routledge
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Text copyright M Sunderland, 2003
Illustrations copyright N Armstrong, 2003

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Sunderland, Margot
Teenie Weenie in a too big world : a story for fearful
children. (Helping children with feelings)
1. Fear Juvenile fiction. 2. Friendship Juvenile fiction
3. Childrens stories
I. Title II. Armstrong, Nicky
823.914 [J]

ISBN: 9780863884603 (pbk)

when suddenly he found himself in a
scrumbly, screechy place.

It was full of noises and crashes and humpy
bumpy things

and things that swooped and scratched.

Then a Snarling Snippercracker snapped at Teenie Weenie.
Teenie Weenie cowered.

He walked along a bit more, and a big, banging branch
whacked into him. Teenie Weenie felt even smaller.

Then he fell into a jangly, tangly mess, right
there by the waters edge.

And the more Teenie Weenie found the scrumbly,
screechy place too hard, the smaller he felt.

And by the time all manner of creatures
had snarled, sneered and squawked at him

and by the time all manner of wild winds
had blown at him, and stinging rain had battered
him blue, he felt he was little more than a speck.

And because he felt like a speck, the tiniest insect in the
scrumbly, screechy place wanted to eat him.

I feel awful, he said to himself. Whats the point of living in a too hard world? Nothing is good, everything is bad.
Then he couldnt be bothered to do anything any more, but stay exactly where he was and be a speck. It was horrible.

Now after a while, along strolled a Wip-Wop bird the sort that likes looking down deep, dark holes for worms.

To the Wip-Wop birds surprise, in one particularly deep, dark hole he didnt find a worm, he found a speck. Hey there, little Speck! he said to Teenie Weenie, Why dont you come out of there and have a chocolate muffin in my tree?

No, thank you, said Teenie Weenie, in a teenie weenie voice.
Its far too frightening out there in the world.

Nonsense, said the Wip-Wop bird. When theres US instead of YOU, it wont be so frightening. I agree that doing too hard things on your own can be far too lonely, but havent you heard of TOGETHER? Talking of which, here comes my friend Hoggie.

Now, Teenie Weenie didnt know what this TOGETHER thing was, because hed always done the hard things in his life all by himself, but he decided to give it a go. Anything rather than being a speck. So Teenie Weenie, Hoggie and the Wip-Wop bird set off for chocolate muffins.