Polly Pig wants to fly

This is a story to teach kids about perseverance. It's ok if you don't succeed the first time, you just need to try and try again!

Polly pig is a piggy with big dreams. He wants to fly! But pigs can't fly, that's what everyone tells him, including his very best friend Wolly wombat. But Polly wouldn't listen. He dreams of flying every second of the day - when he wakes up in the morning, when he's having lunch, when's he in school, when he's having dinner, even when he's sleeping!

One day, Polly saw a bird. "Can you teach me how to fly?" asked Polly. Mr Bird looked at Polly and said "Pigs can't fly, you have no wings". So Polly went home and made himself a pair of wings. He climbed up the tree, spreaded out his wings and jumped.... whhhheeeeeeeeee.... opppsss... and plop! Polly fell into a muddy puddle. But he didn't give up. "I must think of another way" said Polly.

The next day, Polly met a flying squirrel. "Can you teach me how to fly?" asked Polly. Mr Flying Squirrel looked at Polly and said "Pigs can't fly, you have no stretchy skin like mine". He stretched out his arms and legs to show Polly his parachute-like skin on the sides of his body. "Wow, I'm gonna have to make myself a glider" said Polly.

So home Polly went and made himself a glider. His first glider was good, but not quite good enough. He managed to glide from one tree to the next before we went plop into the muddy puddle. But Polly didn't give up. He went home and made a second glider. This one was better, but also not quite good enough. He managed to glide from one tree to the second to the third before he went plop into the muddy puddle. But did Polly give up? NO! He went home and made a third glider. Wolly cheered for Polly when he made his third try with his third glider. This glider was good. It was so good that Polly glided from tree to tree without falling. Wolly clapped and cheered! "You're flying Polly, you're flying!"

"Yes yes yes, I'm flying!!! Woo hoo!!!" Polly was very very happy. He was finally flying. Who said pigs can't fly? All the animals came out to see Polly the flying pig. They were amazed. Everyone clapped and cheered. "Polly is flying! There really is a flying pig!"

At the end of the story I concluded by telling H "See, Polly didn't give up right, he tried and tried again and he finally could fly. H nodded.
Me: What must you do if you can't do it the first time?
H: Try and try again! 
:-)