Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot by Margot Theis Raven

Author:Margot Theis Raven
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Published: 2002-03-13T05:00:00+00:00

Mercedes ran excitedly with the other children, with her hands stretched high to capture the prize in the sky. But at the very last second, a large boy nearby reached up a little higher and grabbed the parachute drifting toward her!

And oh, the look in his eyes as he bit into the silky, smooth chocolate! It was all Mercedes could think about the whole sad way home.

That night, listening to the sound of the planes’ engines above her home, Mercedes wiped at tears. If only she had caught the chocolate it wouldn’t matter if the chickens laid eggs. The candy would make her and Mama so happy! But what could she do?

Then Mercedes remembered from the newspaper that children wrote letters to the Chocolate Pilot. With the moon as her lamp, she got out of bed to write one too. Carefully, as she had learned in school, she penned:

Dear Chocolate Pilot,

“We live near the airfield at Tempelhof, and our chickens think your airplanes are chicken hawks so they become frightened when you fly over to land. They run in shelter and some moult with no more eggs from them. It is a big problem for us. We need the eggs. But when you fly over the garden and see the white chickens, please drop some candy there and all will be ok. I don’t care if you scare them.”

Your little friend,

Mercedes

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