The
Frozen
Palace
Once upon a time and far away,
two best friends played every day.
Red -haired
Gerda was bright and sunny.
Cheeky
Kai was always funny.
They lived next door to each other,
close as a sister and a brother.
They loved to play hide -and -seek.
Neither of them did ever peek.
I'm coming to find you!
Kai did call.
Then he spied something in the hall.
A rusty mirror that looked quite old.
He picked it up.
It was so cold!
The mirror shone with an icy blow.
From it long icicles did grow.
It made things look so sparkly and frost -lit.
Yuck!
It's cold!
Yelped
Kai as he dropped it.
Smash!
The mirror broke into silvery
splinters.
Each was as frozen as a piece of winter.
One got trapped in poor
Kai's finger
and no more in the hall did he linger.
Gerda got tired of waiting about.
Kai, where are you?
She called out.
She went outside,
where it was light.
But of poor
Kai, there was no sight.
Just then, a snowstorm came.
Whoosh!
An icy wind groaned and swooshed.
Great white snowflakes started falling,
and
Gerda had to stop her calling.
Gerda ran straight to
Mr
Pop's shop.
Have you seen
Kai? she asked
Mr
Pop.
Kai?
No, but this storm of snow is the
Snow
Queens, don't you know?
Gerda had heard of that
Snow
Queen.
It was said she was so scary
and mean.
In the next shop she asked
Mrs
Lye,
Have you seen my best friend
Kai?
No, but over that hill the
Snow
Queen with a poor young
boy I've seen.
Cripes !" gasped
Gerda and ran over there,
over the hill with white snow in her hair.
A huge frozen palace lay ahead,
sparkling with icicles, white, blue and red.
The doors were made of ice and so tall.
Kai!
Kai!
Gerda did call.
The great doors opened with a creak
and inside brave
Gerda did sneak
up a white staircase made of snow.
Past chilly dining rooms she did go.
Gerda tiptoed over the icy floor.
Suddenly, she saw a small blue door.
She flung it open and found
Kai inside.
Kai!
You're frozen solid!
She cried.
Gerda saw the sharp splinters sticking out.
So she pulled it out with a great big shout.
All at once,
Kai started to thaw.
Water dripped off him onto the floor.
Gerda!
Kai sprung forward free and fast.
The
Snow
Queen's spell was
broken at last.
They were so happy to
see each other
that they began to sob an d blubber.
Gerda and
Kai's tears melted the snow.
Further and further their warm tears did go.
The nearby hill and town
turned spring green.
And the kingdom was
saved from the mean
Snow
Queen.