17th meeting

Our today's story: "The Beautiful Pattern" by Enid Blyton

Our book club meeting today turned out to be a quite small one, as only four of us met for it. The good thing is, however, that two new girls joined the club! We welcome Imaan and Yumnaa to Karachi Bookworms Club!

As we sat down on the carpet for getting started, Umm Uzair asked us, if we liked to draw. All of us were eager to confirm it, because all of us enjoyed drawing very much. Umm Uzair asked Imaan and Yumnaa, what kinds of things they were doing at school in their art classes. The girls explained that they did water-colours, drawing, pasting and many other interesting things. Uzair and Hafsa said that they also liked drawing very much, which we could very well see from all their pictures pasted on the whiteboard right behind our backs.

This time, the story was about a boy Morris, who was not good at drawing at all and had much trouble with it at school. Whenever his art teacher asked him to make some pattern, he could never come up with anything good.

One day, Morris' teacher gave him some homework for the weekend - to make a pattern, which would be good for a wallpaper. Morris came home very sad, because he didn't know what to draw. His mother sent him to play outside in the snow. As he went out, he noticed among the trees in the wood a house made of snow! He went closer and looked through the doorway, which didn't have any doors. Inside the house he saw a brownie, who was busy making desings on a wallpaper, which he wanted to paste on the walls of his snow-house. He was making so very beautiful patterns that Morris had to ask him, how he got idea to draw them. Brownie replied that he just looked around him for the patterns in nature. In summer, he had made a pattern of dasies, but this one that he was doing now was of snowflakes. They both went outside to catch some snowflakes and look at the patterns of these small ice crystals. Morris was surprised how beautiful each little snowflake was! Now he had got an idea for his own wall-paper pattern - he rushed home and made a pattern of snowflakes.

When Morris took his patter to school on Monday, his teacher liked his patern very much. She even pinned it to the wall for everybody to see!

After finishing the story, Umm Uzair showed us how to make our own snowflakes. Check out the pictures to see how many beautiful patterns we made!!!