Little Miss Sunshine lives in Rise and Shine Cottage on the bank of a river.

And Little Miss Sunshine, as her name suggests, is a very happy person.

The sort of person who never gets in a bad mood.

the sort of person who is the exact opposite of somebody else who appears in this story.

that somebody is Mr Grumpy.

And Mr Grumpy, as his name suggests, Is the grumpiest person in the world.

The sort of person who is always in a bad mood.

Everything annoys him.

Flowers growing in his garden. Sunny days ... and rainy days. But the thing that puts

Mr Grumpy in the worst possible mood is seeing other people happy.

One morning Mr Grumpy met Little Miss Sunshine.

“Good morning Mr Grumpy,” said Miss Sunshine cheerfully.

“There is nothing good about it,” snapped Mr Grumpy.

“Humph,” huffed Mr Grumpy, after Miss Sunshine had left. “That Miss Sunshine is always so abominably happy! Just for once I’d like to see her in a bad mood.”

It was on his way home that Mr Grumpy thought of a plan. A plan to upset Little Miss Sunshine. He raced home and made a list of all the things that were guaranteed to upset him.

It was a very long list! “Now, there must be something here that will put Miss Sunshine in a bad mood,” he

said to himself.

Mr Grumpy was not a very nice man!

The first thing Mr Grumpy had written on his list was, ‘waiting for buses’.

So the next day Mr Grumpy opened a gate and let all Farmer Fields’ sheep out into

the lane! And the bus was delayed for hours and hours while all the sheep were

rounded up.

Mr Grumpy ran round to the bus stop.

“Tee hee,” he chuckled nastily, “I can’t wait to see how upset Miss Sunshine is.”

But Little Miss Sunshine was not upset. In fact she was not there.

It was such a nice day she had decided to walk into town.

“Bother!” said Mr Grumpy.

The next day Mr Grumpy looked at the second thing on the list.

“Losing,” he read out loud. So that evening he invited Miss Sunshine round to his house to play cards and ...

he cheated!  

ut Little Miss Sunshine being the happy-golucky person she is did not mind losing.

Mr Grumpy won every game they played.

“Oh, well played Mr Grumpy,” she said at the end of the evening.

“Bother, bother,” said Mr Grumpy after she had left.

Mr Grumpy read down his list again.

Number three said, ‘getting caught in the rain’.

Mr Grumpy filled up his watering can and, using his ladder, climbed a tree just outside Miss Sunshine’s house.

And there he waited until Miss Sunshine came out for her walk.

But Little Miss Sunshine saw the ladder. “What a silly place to leave a ladder,” she

said to herself, and walked round the other side of the tree and put the ladder away.

“Bother, bother, bother,” muttered Mr Grumpy, who ended up stuck in the tree all night.

Well, nearly all night. Just before sunrise he fell asleep ... and fell out of the tree!