Maggie and the Pink Rat

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Märt Saar. Maggie and the Pink Rat

1. Un-be-lieve-a-ble!

2. An unexpected gift

3. Eight pieces of popcorn

4. A suspicious old man

5. First shopping trip

6. Egg artists

7. Preparations for the Song Festival

8. Animals in school

9. Bad news

10. So much money

11. Pink Rat’s story

12. Orange shorts

13. Alien invasion

14. Birthday at the trampoline center

15. The love letter

16. Brave until the end

17. Meringue

18. A failed picnic

19. Rat prison

20. On the way to Egypt

21. Shallalaa!

22. Let summer begin!

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There was a girl called Maggie. She had been looking at her windowsill for quite a while. Her eyes were as large as cucumber slices, though normally they were average-sized – about like roasted almonds. On Maggie's windowsill were a whole lineup of shoes, and she would have happily begun playing with them again, but something was wrong.

Someone had moved the shoes around, making a pyramid-shaped tower of them. But Maggie had no idea who that someone could be, for she had no brothers or sisters. There were just her mother and father, but they certainly wouldn’t have been playing with her shoes. They didn’t have time for such things.

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“Gracious, it’s so amazing!”

Maggie actually knew already exactly what she wished for. It was, of course, the thing she had never gotten, though she had been asking her parents for it for several birthdays and Christmases. But the girl’s pleas had always ended with her parents’ reply that she had allergies and it simply wasn’t possible.

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