Space Boy

A Story By

N. Nangai

Illustrations Courtesy: Pratham Books

Released In “Creative Commons – Attribution – Share Alike license”

Once there was a boy named Nakhul. He had a wish to go to space on his own.

He was an extraordinary child. He never did anything other than thinking. He was always thinking and thinking about how to invent something that would take him to space.

One day, he said about his wish to his grandma. She told him, "if you really wish to go to space, go make a plan, follow your plan and invent a wonder device. That's all you have to do."

Nakhul thought about this while playing cricket...

... while picking vegetables and while doing many other activities.

Once Nakhul's grandma asked him to pick vegetables from garden which he did happily.

Suddenly, he thought of a new invention.

Nakhul ran to his room and quickly made a thing which looked round like a wheel with a stick stuck to it. He believed this will take him to space. But how?

Nakhul's friends saw his invention and became jealous of him. They pushed him and his invention in to a pit.

Inside the pit, it was too dark. Nakhul pushed his sharp wheel this way and that and suddenly, he saw that he was on space.

He went around the earth for more than 1000 times.

Nakhul was very happy. He visited every planet and every star and made friends with the moon and the Pluto aliens.

Later, Nakhul returned back to earth with his superb invention.

He used that pit to go to space often, thanks to his playful invention and jealous friends.