A. The Moon, A Balloon, and A Spoon This is a very strange story about the moon, a balloon and a spoon-but who's to say it isn't true? It happened late one night when everybody had gone to bed. All the children in the houses had been fast asleep for hours, and all the grown-ups too. Only the cats that sat on the rooftops were wide awake in the moonlight. Suddenly there came a noise like..,,,...thunder perhaps, or a jet plane maybe, or the roaring, rushing sound of a hurricane......no-one could really say for sure. All at once everyone was out of bed opening their windows and looking up into the sky. There it was again, and again, and again. The noise was so loud that it knocked off some of the chimney pots and sent them rolling down the roofs. "What is it?" the people in the houses cried with fright. A ginger cat who had been sitting on the roof seemed to know the answer. "Its the Moon!" he purred, looking very aloof. "The M...
