Alfie's Alphabet Book - Part 1

Once there was a little boy called Alfie and he had an Alphabet book; a book with a different letter on every page and, beside it, a picture of something beginning with that letter.
On the first page was the letter A and beside it a picture of a big red and green apple but the Apple looked so nice and juicy that it made Alfie feel hungry and so he tried to reach into the page and take the apple, just for fun.
To his amazement, however, Alfies hand went right inside the picture and he was able to touch the apple, move the apple and even wrap his fingers around the apple and pull it out of the page.
"Wow", he thought, excitedly, holding the apple in his hand, "I wonder if it tastes like a real apple".
Then he took a big bite out of the apple and it tasted amazing, like the sweetest and juiciest apple he had ever tasted.
But then, suddenly, something even more suprising happened for then Alfie started to shrink and not only that but he started to get flatter, just like a picture, too and fly onto the first page of his Alphabet book.
"Hey", he said looking around, "I'm inside the book. How did that happen?".
"You ate the apple", said a bee that was buzzing about nearby, "And it must have been a magic apple".
"Well who are you?", asked Alfie.
"I am the second picture in the book", said the bee, buzzing round about Alfies head, "B for Bee. I'm also B because I buzz; B because I'm a bug and B because I am B-eautiful, at least I think so".
"Well how do I get back out of the book?", asked Alfie.
"Oh, well, about that I'm not really sure", said the Bee, "But don't worry. Perhaps if we just go through the Alphabet one of the other pictures will know".
Then the bee buzzed off onto the next page of the book and so Alfie, not wanting to be left behind, ran after him.
And on the third page they saw a cat, an orange and stripy cat with green eyes who was napping lazilly ontop of the letter C.
"Who is that?", Alfie asked the bee.
"The third picture in the book of course", said the bee, "A cat, because Cat begins with C".
The bee started to buzz around the cats nose.
"Go away", said the cat, trying to swat the bothersome bee with its paw, "Can't you see I'm trying to sleep".
"But you can't sleep now", said the bee, "You have to help me help this boy. He's trapped inside this book and he can't get out".
"Well we're all trapped inside the book", said the Cat.
"Yes but he's not a picture, he's a real boy from the real world outside the book", said the bee.
"A real boy?", asked the Cat, waking up, stretching and yawning then looking over at Alfie, "Well how did he get in the book?".
"He ate the Apple from the start of the book", said the Bee.
"Oh", said the cat, leaping down from the letter C onto the ground, "Well thats not a good idea, eating pictures out of books. It wasn't a library book was it?".
"No", said Alfie, "My mum bought it for me".
"Never mind about that", said the Bee to the Cat, "We have to get him out of the book into the real world where he belongs".
"Oh yes ofcourse", said the Cat, "But how do we do that?".
"I was hoping you might know", said the Bee.
The cat rubbed his whiskers in thought.
"Hmm?", he said, "I'm not sure but we could try going through that door over there".
And then the cat pointed a paw towards a door on the next page that was beside a letter D; D for door.
The bee buzzed over onto the next page to where the door was and the cat and Alfie followed him.
"But its shut", said the Bee, buzzing around the door, "How do we open it?".
Alfie tried turning the knob upon the door.
"I think its locked", he said, "We can't open it without a key".
But then the door opened and, through its doorway, like a mouth, it spoke.
"Stop that", said the door with annoyance, "Leave my doorknob alone".
"I'm sorry", said Alfie.
"But we need you to open so that he can go through you", said the Bee.
"Go through me?", asked the door, "Why do you need to do that?".
"Because this boy is from the real world outside the book", said the Bee, "But he got trapped inside the book and now he has to find a way out".
"Oh well he can't go through me", said the door.
"Why not?", asked the Bee.
"Well he just can't", said the door.
"That seems very unfair", said the Cat.
"Well I don't care about that", said the door, "I'm the door and I say he can't go through me".
Just then however, the bee flew into the doors keyhole and started to buzz about inside.
"Stop that", said the door, "It tickles, stop it".
But then the door, opening wide, started to laugh.
"Aha-ha-ha-ha!", it laughed.
"Quick!", buzzed the bee to Alfie and the cat, "Run through while the doors laughing".
Hurriedly, Alfie and the cat ran through the door and then the bee buzzed through the keyhole to the other side of the door aswell.
Unfortunately, on the other side of the door there was nothing but the next page of the book.
Infront of them, Alfie, the cat and bee saw a large grey Elephant and, beside it, the letter E for elephant.
"What is that?", said the cat, hiding timidly behind Alfie, "Its enormous".
"Don't worry", said Alfie, "Its just an elephant".
"Elephant?", asked the cat, "Does it eat cats?".
"Oh no", said Alfie, going over to the Elephant and patting its long, grey trunk, "Elephants are gentle animals and very smart".
"Smart, eh?", said the Bee, buzzing around the elephant, "Well perhaps it can tell you the way out of this book".
Then the bee buzzed inside the elephants gigantic left ear and asked,
"Excuse me, Mr Elephant but do you happen to know the way out of this book?"
"I'm having a very strange thought in my head", said the elephant, "Very strange; very buzzy and very ticklish".
"I'm not a thought", said the bee buzzing back out of the elephants ear and landing on its trunk, "I'm a bee".
"Oh?", said the Elephant, "Well what were you doing in my ear? You weren't making honey I hope. Thats what bees do and I don't want an ear full of honey".
"No, I wasn't making honey", said the bee, " I was trying to ask you a question".
"We were just wondering", said Alfie, "If you knew how to get out of this book and into the real world because thats where I'm from. I got trapped in the book and now I want to get home"
"Hmm?", said the elephant, rubbing his large grey head with the end of his trunk in thought, "That sounds like a very complicated problem. I'm not sure I know the answer to that".
"Oh well", said Alfie, "It was still nice meeting a real live elephant".
"I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help to you", said the elephant.
"Well perhaps you can come with us and help us look", said the cat peering out from behind Alfie, still feeling timid, "Providing you don't eat cats".
"Oh yes", said the Elephant, "I'd be glad to. Infact you can even ride on my back if you'd like".
And, saying that, the elephant picked up Alfie and the cat with its trunk and put them on its back.
Then the Elephant, Alfie, the Cat and the Bee all went onto the next page of the book.
On the next page, however, was a fence; a white picket fence next to the letter F for fence.
"Oh", said the cat, "How disappointing. I was hoping it would be F for fish because I'm very hungry".
"Never mind your being hungry", said the Bee, "How are going to get past the fence?".
"Well you can fly across", said the cat, "And I can climb over it. I'm very good at climbing".
"But what about the boy and the elephant?", asked the Bee.
"Oh don't worry about that", said the Elephant, "I know how to get through fences".
And, saying that, the Elephant just walked over the fence and it was so heavy that the fence was flattened by it.
But then, on the other side of the fence they saw lots and lots of glistening golden treasure piled up in a heap beside the letter G.
"This must be G for gold", thought the bee.
"Its so lovely and shiny", said the cat; dazzled and almost hypnotized by the glimmer of the gold, "Perhaps it would be alright if I just took some".
The elephant picked up a golden crown that was sitting ontop of the pile of treasure with his trunk and placed it upon the head of the cat.
"You can be king cat", said the Elephant.
"Oh yes", said the cat, feeling very kingly, "I like that very much".
But then, unfortunately, no sooner had the cat said this when, out from behind the pile of gold came an angry giant.
"Give me back my gold", bellowed the giant in a loud voice like thunder.
"Eek!", said the bee, "My mistake. Its not G for gold; its G for Giant. Quick! Run!".
So the Bee, Alfie, the Cat and the Elephant all ran as fast as they could onto the next page.
But the Giant was still chasing them.
Fortunately there was a big hole in the ground beside the letter H for hole and the Giant fell into it
"Phew!", said the Elephant, seeing the Giant disappear down the hole, "I'm glad that Giant is gone. He was even bigger than me".
But then they went onto the next page  which was I for ice but the ice was so slippery that they all slipped up on it and went sliding onto the next page, much to the amusement of the jolly jester that, leaning against the letter J started to laugh at them.
"Well I don't know whats so funny about that", complained the cat, rubbing his head because he had fallen off of the sliding elephant with a bump.
"Yes. Very rude if you ask me", said the Bee.
"I'm sorry", said the Jester, "I'm just so jolly that I can't help laughing all the time".
"Well", said the bee, "Perhaps rather than laughing you could do something useful like telling us if you know a way out of this book. This boy got stuck in the book and he wants to get back home".
"Oh thats awful", said the Jester starting to frown, "Thats not funny at all. Poor boy. I wish I could help, really but I don't know anymore than you do".
But then the Jester pointed towards the kite on the next page and said, "Perhaps the kite can help you. He's a high flyer".
And so Alfie, the bee, the cat and the elephant all went onto the next page where a red and yellow kite with a long tail tied with ribbons was flying about near a letter K for Kite.
"Oh good", said the kite, whooshing over their heads and waving its ribboned tail, "Visitors. You can watch me flying about. I'm very good at flying".
"Huh!", said the bee in annoyance, flying round in a circle, "Theres nothing very special about that. I can fly just aswell as you".
"Oh I didn't mean any offence", said the kite, whooshing back over their heads, "I just like flying so much".
"Well then maybe, while you were flying, you saw a way out of this book", asked the Elephant.
"Way out?", said the kite, "Oh no I've never seen one of those".
"I didn't think so", said the bee and then, to Alfie, the cat and Elephant, added, "Lets go on. I don't think this kite can help us".
"Oh but I can", said the Kite, "Because on the next page is L for Lake and, unless you have a boat, you can't cross the lake but if you all hold onto my tail, I can fly you across".
And so the elephant wrapped his trunk around the kites long tail and the cat and Alfie held on tightly too.
Then the kite flew them over to the other side of the Lake while the bee flew, buzzing,  behind them.
Then, when they  were all safely on the ground again, the kite waved goodbye to them with its ribboned tail before flying away.
"Huh!", said the bee, looking at the kite, "Show off!"
But then the cat saw something else, a mouse crawling over the letter M for mouse.
"Mouse!", cried the cat, leaping excitedly down from the back of the elephant and chasing the mouse, "You won't get away from me Mr. Mouse".