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Miss Tiny Chef

Miss Tiny Chef is only eight years old. She does things other little girls wouldn’t do. Armed with a talking mingling stick that shares all its great recipes with her, Kasini stirs up a special surprise meal for mummy.

Suggested age: 7–12岁 · Reading level L3 · 16 illustrated pages

Miss Tiny Chef — original illustrated page 1, English text included

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Miss Tiny Chef is only eight years old. She does things other little girls wouldn’t do. Armed with a talking mingling stick that shares all its great recipes with her, Kasini stirs up a special surprise meal for mummy.

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Miss Tiny Chef — original illustrated page 1, English text included
Miss Tiny Chef
Miss Tiny Chef — original illustrated page 2, English text included
Miss Tiny Chef — original illustrated page 3, English text included
Miss Tiny Chef — original illustrated page 4, English text included
Kasini is eight years old. She loves to cook. She reads a cook book on the school bus every morning and before bedtime.
Miss Tiny Chef — original illustrated page 5, English text included
Nobody knows her secret, that she sleeps with a wooden mingling stick every night. When she sleeps, she dreams that she is smiling, wearing a chef’s hat and holding her mingling stick high up in the air.
Miss Tiny Chef — original illustrated page 6, English text included
Kasini loves to sing as she cooks. She sings to the carrots and dances with the flour.
Miss Tiny Chef — original illustrated page 7, English text included
She slices the cucumber and places two on top of her eyes. She BANGS the saucepans loudly as she jumps up and down.
Miss Tiny Chef — original illustrated page 8, English text included
"GET BACK TO WORK," the stick scolds. "Cooking is not work, it’s fun," Kasini laughs. The stick tells her if the soup needs more salt, if the chicken needs more heat and when the Ugali is ready to eat.
Miss Tiny Chef — original illustrated page 9, English text included
Sometimes Kasini doesn’t listen to the stick. "I will use my palm to taste the soup," she says.
Miss Tiny Chef — original illustrated page 10, English text included
"I will use my mouth to taste the chicken," she decides. The stick laughs for she is young and it is old. Older than the cutlery in the house, Older than Kasini’s older brother. So old it knows all the great recipes by heart.
Miss Tiny Chef — original illustrated page 11, English text included
Kasini adds more salt, pepper and curry powder to the soup. This is wrong and she knows it but she is only being stubborn.
Miss Tiny Chef — original illustrated page 12, English text included
The stick doesn’t like being disrespected, it changes colour from brown to red to show Kasini that it is angry.
Miss Tiny Chef — original illustrated page 13, English text included
"The soup will BURN without the mingling stick!" moans Kasini.
Miss Tiny Chef — original illustrated page 14, English text included
She sings for the stick, but there is no change. "I am sorry," she says. The stick turns back to brown just in time and Kasini hugs it in joy.
Miss Tiny Chef — original illustrated page 15, English text included
"Now I can serve mummy the food I made," Kasini says excitedly. "The food we made," she giggles, as she tucks the stick away.
Miss Tiny Chef — original illustrated page 16, English text included

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Written by
Linda Nabasa
Illustrated by
Raymond Diby
Created by
Nabeela Kalla (Editor); Ruramai Musekiwa (Designer); Raymond Diby (Illustrator); Linda Nabasa (Writer)

Source: Book Dash
Original: Miss Tiny Chef from Book Dash
License: CC BY 4.0

Original illustrated spreads and embedded English story text preserved; website layout and printable PDF assembled by Little Leaf. Age, level, theme and recommendation are editorial suggestions. Web and printable layout adapted by Little Leaf. Age and reading-level suggestions are editorial. Original stories and artwork belong to their credited creators. Website narration uses the selected synthetic Voice 7.