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Chapter 23 - They get into trouble
The Enchanted Wood read aloud (like an audiobook)
Chapter 1 - How they found the Magic Wood
Chapter 2 - First visit to the Wood
Chapter 3 - Up the Faraway Tree
Chapter 4 - The folk in the Faraway Tree
Chapter 5 - The Roundabout Land
Chapter 6 - Moon-Face and the slippery-slip
Chapter 7 - Beth makes some toffee for Moon-Face
Chapter 8 - Joe and the Magic Snowman
Chapter 9 - The House of The Three Bears
Chapter 10 - The Battle of the Bears
Chapter 11 - More and more suprises
Chapter 12 - What happened to the Snowman
Chapter 13 - Moon-Face gets into trouble
Chapter 14 - The funny old Saucepan Man
Chapter 15 - The Saucepan Man goes to the wrong land!
Chapter 16 - What happened in the Rocking Land
Chapter 17 - An invitation from Moon-Face and Silky
Chapter 18 - The Land of Take-What-You-Want
Chapter 19 - Moon-Face gets into a fix
Chapter 20 - Off to Dame Snap's School
Chapter 21 - Silky's clock is very clever
Chapter 22 - Up to the Land of Toys
Chapter 23 - They get into trouble
Chapter 24 - Mr Oom-Boom-Boom
Chapter 25 - In Santa Claus' castle
Chapter 26 - The army of Red Goblins
Chapter 27 - A most exciting night
Chapter 28 - The Red Goblins get a shock
Chapter 29 - The punishment of the Red Goblins
Chapter 30 - A plan for Beth's birthday
Chapter 31 - The Land of Birthdays
Chapter 32 - The Little Lost Island
Chapter 33 - Safe back home again - and good-bye!
Please use as a calm silent reading activity, during Crunch 'n' Sip, or as your classroom novel.
Flips: The Faraway Tree Stories - 6 Books (Nintendo DS)
The Enchanted Wood
The Magic Faraway Tree
The Folk of the Faraway Tree
Silky and the Rainbow Feather
Melody and the Enchanted Harp
Petal and the Eternal Bloom
In the first novel in the series, Jo, Bessie and Fanny (edited to Joe, Beth and Fran in revised editions) move to live near a large forest, which the locals call "The Enchanted Wood". One day they go for a walk in the wood and discover it really is enchanted. They encounter a group of elves who have been robbed of important papers by a gnome. They chase the gnome and recover the papers, but the gnome himself escapes up a huge tree whose branches seem to reach into the clouds. This is the Faraway Tree.
Against the elves' advice, the children climb the Faraway Tree. They discover that it is inhabited by magical people, including Moon-Face, Silky, The Saucepan Man, Dame Washalot, Mr Watzisname, and the Angry Pixie, whose houses are carved into the trunk. They befriend some of these people, in particular Moon-Face and Silky. At the very top of the tree they discover a ladder which leads them to a magical land which is different on each visit, because each place moves on from the top of the tree to make way for a new land. The children are free to come and go, but they must leave before the land moves on, or they will be stuck there until that same land returns to the Faraway Tree. In various chapters, one of the children gets stuck in the land.
The lands at the top are sometimes extremely unpleasant – for example, the Land of Dame Slap (altered to Dame Snap in revised editions), an aggressive school teacher; and sometimes fantastically enjoyable – notably the Land of Birthdays, the Land of Goodies, the Land of Take-What-You-Want, and the Land of Do-As-You-Please.
The first land the three children visit is the Roundabout Land, in which everything turns constantly. They encounter a pair of rabbits, who dig a hole for the children to help them escape the land when they discover that the hole back to the tree had closed up after the ground turned above it. After several more adventures, the people of the Faraway Tree need the children's help when they are invaded by an army of Red Goblins. The last land they visit in this book is the Land of Birthdays, where the brownies and the inhabitants of the Faraway Tree celebrate Bessie's birthday.
#theenchantedwood #enidblyton #theenchantedwoodreadaloud #enidblytonreadaloud #silentreading #crunchnsip #classroomnovel
Chapter 23 - They get into trouble
The Enchanted Wood read aloud (like an audiobook)
Chapter 1 - How they found the Magic Wood
Chapter 2 - First visit to the Wood
Chapter 3 - Up the Faraway Tree
Chapter 4 - The folk in the Faraway Tree
Chapter 5 - The Roundabout Land
Chapter 6 - Moon-Face and the slippery-slip
Chapter 7 - Beth makes some toffee for Moon-Face
Chapter 8 - Joe and the Magic Snowman
Chapter 9 - The House of The Three Bears
Chapter 10 - The Battle of the Bears
Chapter 11 - More and more suprises
Chapter 12 - What happened to the Snowman
Chapter 13 - Moon-Face gets into trouble
Chapter 14 - The funny old Saucepan Man
Chapter 15 - The Saucepan Man goes to the wrong land!
Chapter 16 - What happened in the Rocking Land
Chapter 17 - An invitation from Moon-Face and Silky
Chapter 18 - The Land of Take-What-You-Want
Chapter 19 - Moon-Face gets into a fix
Chapter 20 - Off to Dame Snap's School
Chapter 21 - Silky's clock is very clever
Chapter 22 - Up to the Land of Toys
Chapter 23 - They get into trouble
Chapter 24 - Mr Oom-Boom-Boom
Chapter 25 - In Santa Claus' castle
Chapter 26 - The army of Red Goblins
Chapter 27 - A most exciting night
Chapter 28 - The Red Goblins get a shock
Chapter 29 - The punishment of the Red Goblins
Chapter 30 - A plan for Beth's birthday
Chapter 31 - The Land of Birthdays
Chapter 32 - The Little Lost Island
Chapter 33 - Safe back home again - and good-bye!
Please use as a calm silent reading activity, during Crunch 'n' Sip, or as your classroom novel.
Flips: The Faraway Tree Stories - 6 Books (Nintendo DS)
The Enchanted Wood
The Magic Faraway Tree
The Folk of the Faraway Tree
Silky and the Rainbow Feather
Melody and the Enchanted Harp
Petal and the Eternal Bloom
In the first novel in the series, Jo, Bessie and Fanny (edited to Joe, Beth and Fran in revised editions) move to live near a large forest, which the locals call "The Enchanted Wood". One day they go for a walk in the wood and discover it really is enchanted. They encounter a group of elves who have been robbed of important papers by a gnome. They chase the gnome and recover the papers, but the gnome himself escapes up a huge tree whose branches seem to reach into the clouds. This is the Faraway Tree.
Against the elves' advice, the children climb the Faraway Tree. They discover that it is inhabited by magical people, including Moon-Face, Silky, The Saucepan Man, Dame Washalot, Mr Watzisname, and the Angry Pixie, whose houses are carved into the trunk. They befriend some of these people, in particular Moon-Face and Silky. At the very top of the tree they discover a ladder which leads them to a magical land which is different on each visit, because each place moves on from the top of the tree to make way for a new land. The children are free to come and go, but they must leave before the land moves on, or they will be stuck there until that same land returns to the Faraway Tree. In various chapters, one of the children gets stuck in the land.
The lands at the top are sometimes extremely unpleasant – for example, the Land of Dame Slap (altered to Dame Snap in revised editions), an aggressive school teacher; and sometimes fantastically enjoyable – notably the Land of Birthdays, the Land of Goodies, the Land of Take-What-You-Want, and the Land of Do-As-You-Please.
The first land the three children visit is the Roundabout Land, in which everything turns constantly. They encounter a pair of rabbits, who dig a hole for the children to help them escape the land when they discover that the hole back to the tree had closed up after the ground turned above it. After several more adventures, the people of the Faraway Tree need the children's help when they are invaded by an army of Red Goblins. The last land they visit in this book is the Land of Birthdays, where the brownies and the inhabitants of the Faraway Tree celebrate Bessie's birthday.









![Cities: Skylines (PS4/PS5) in 13 Minutes with trophies
#citiesskylines #citiesskylinesgameplay #citiesskylinestrophies
Cities: Skylines is a 2015 city-building game developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive. The game is a single-player open-ended city-building simulation. Players engage in urban planning by controlling zoning, road placement, taxation, public services, and public transportation of an area. They also work to manage various elements of the city, including its budget, health, employment, traffic, and pollution levels. It is also possible to maintain a city in a sandbox mode, which provides more creative freedom for the player.
Cities: Skylines is a progression of development from Colossal Orders previous Cities in Motion titles, which focused on designing effective transportation systems. While Colossal felt they had the technical expertise to expand the Cities gameplay into a more full-featured city simulation game, their publisher Paradox Interactive initially held off on the idea, fearing the market dominance of the SimCity series. However, they reconsidered after the critical failure of the 2013 SimCity game, which provided an opportunity for Paradox to establish a competing franchise. Colossals goal was to create a game engine capable of simulating the daily routines of nearly a million unique citizens, while presenting this to the player in a simple way, allowing the player to easily understand various problems in their citys design. This includes realistic traffic congestion, and the effects of congestion on city services and districts. Since the games release, various expansions and other DLC have been released for the game. The game also has built-in support for user-generated content.
The game was first released for the Linux, OS X, and Windows operating systems on 10 March 2015. Console ports by Tantalus Media were released for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 game consoles in 2017, for the Nintendo Switch in September 2018, and for Google Stadia in May 2022. A remastered edition, also by Tantalus, was released for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in February 2023. The game received favourable reviews from critics, and was a commercial success, with more than twelve million copies sold on all platforms as of June 2022. A sequel, Cities: Skylines II, was released on 24 October 2023.
Gameplay
Cities: Skylines allows for construction of cities, buildings, and a variety of transportation options.
The player starts with a plot of land – equivalent to a 2-by-2-kilometre (1.2 mi × 1.2 mi) area[1] – along with an interchange exit from a nearby highway, access to a body of water, as well as a starting amount of in-game money. The player proceeds to add roads and residential, industrial and commercial zones, and basic services like power, water and sewage, to encourage residents to move in and supply them with jobs.
As the city grows beyond certain population tiers, the player unlocks new city improvements, including schools, fire stations, police stations, health care facilities and waste management systems, tax and government edicts, mass transit systems, and other features for managing the city. One such feature enables the player to designate parts of their city as districts. Each district can be configured by the player to restrict the types of developments permitted or to enforce specific regulations within the districts bounds, such as only allowing for industrial sectors devoted to agriculture, offering free public transportation for the district to reduce traffic, raising or reducing taxes for the various classes of development, or, with the Green Cities DLC, discouraging fossil-fuel vehicles from entering a district while not discouraging electric vehicles, reducing noise pollution caused by traffic.
Buildings in the city have various development levels that are met by improving the local area, with higher levels providing more benefits to the city. For example, a commercial store will increase in level if nearby residents are more educated, which in turn will allow it to hire more employees and increase tax revenue for the city. When the player has accumulated enough residents and money, they can purchase neighbouring plots of land, each equivalent in size to the starting land area, allowing them to build up eight additional parcels out of 25 within a 10-by-10-kilometre (6.2 mi × 6.2 mi) area. The parcel limitation is to allow the game to run across the widest range of personal computers, but players can use Steam Workshop modifications to open not only all of the games standard 25-tile building area, but the entire map (81 tiles, 324 square kilometres or 125 square miles). Cities: Skylines (PS4/PS5) in 13 Minutes with trophies](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/L1TXblJE_tQ/mqdefault.jpg)
