Little Miss Neat and the Last Leaf, by Roger and Adam Hargreaves, is an entertaining kid's book read aloud for preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school ages (and adults still young at heart), for the Fall / Autumn season.
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00:00Little Miss Neat and the Last Leaf.
00:29Original Concept by Roger Hargraves.
00:32Written and Illustrated by Adam Hargraves.
00:37Little Miss Neat likes things to be neat, which is why she is called Little Miss Neat.
00:44She likes things to be as neat as two pins, which is why her cottage is called Two-Pin
00:50Cottage.
00:55One autumn day, Little Miss Neat looked out of her window to admire her very neat garden.
01:01As she looked, a leaf fell from the tree in the middle of her lawn.
01:06Oh, goodness gracious, she cried.
01:09What a mess!
01:14She rushed outside, picked up the leaf, and went back indoors and put the leaf in her
01:19garbage bin.
01:20That's better, she said to herself.
01:26But when she looked out of the window again, there was another leaf lying on her immaculate
01:32lawn.
01:33Out she rushed again and picked up the leaf and put it in the garbage bin.
01:41And so it went all day long, rushing backwards and forwards until it was too dark to see
01:48anything.
01:49Poor Little Miss Neat was exhausted.
01:51I don't like autumn, she murmured to herself as she fell asleep.
02:00The next morning was even worse.
02:03Little Miss Neat had to sprint to keep up with the falling leaves.
02:07And that was how Mr. Happy found her at lunchtime, running backwards and forwards.
02:16You look exhausted, said Mr. Happy.
02:19I am, puffed Miss Neat, but I have to pick up all these horrid, messy leaves.
02:25Do you know what I do? said Mr. Happy.
02:28I wait until all the leaves have fallen, and then I pick them up.
02:33You ought to try it, it's much easier.
02:39After Mr. Happy had left, Miss Neat thought about what he had said and decided she would
02:44try it.
02:45But it was easier said than done.
02:48Poor Little Miss Neat worried and fretted and fretted and worried as the leaves slowly
02:53covered her lawn.
02:55She hated it.
03:00But eventually all the leaves had fallen.
03:03Well, nearly all the leaves.
03:06There was just one leaf left on the tree.
03:09Little Miss Neat waited, and waited, and waited.
03:17When it got too dark to see, she got a flashlight torch and waited, and waited, and waited,
03:25all night long.
03:30And that was how Mr. Happy found her the next morning, still waiting.
03:38What are you doing? asked Mr. Happy.
03:42What you suggested I do, replied Miss Neat.
03:45I'm waiting for all the leaves to fall.
03:48Mr. Happy smiled, reached up, and plucked the last leaf from the tree.
03:55Oh, said Miss Neat, suddenly feeling rather foolish, and she blushed.
04:07Mr. Happy helped her to rake up all the leaves.
04:10And by tea time, Little Miss Neat's garden was as neat and as tidy as it usually was.
04:16You know what you should do next year? said Mr. Happy.
04:19Oh, please, no more suggestions, cried Miss Neat.
04:25Oh, don't worry, said Mr. Happy.
04:30You'll like this one.
04:31I think that next year you should go on a holiday and ask Mr. Busy to clear up the leaves.
04:37It wouldn't take him a minute.
04:39What a good idea, said Miss Neat.
04:42You've taken a leaf out of my book, smiled Mr. Happy.
04:47And turned over a new leaf, chuckled Miss Neat.
04:50You can leaf through the holiday brochures, giggled Mr. Happy.
04:57And I can leave the leaves behind, laughed Miss Neat.
05:01Oh, stop, laughed Mr. Happy.
05:05Leaf me alone.
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