Hello my name is Tubby, I live here in this wonderful library and I love to eat books. I live here with my friends Gumbo and Freckles.

Gumbo! Freckles! Come out come out wherever you are.

Over there on that great book is Grand Old Holy.

She is really old and wise and tells us wonderful stories when she is awake that is.

Oh and we love to sing!

"All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all."

Oh no, you three again! Anyway today I will tell you a really interesting story of how God saved all the creatures and a good man named Noah.

A long time had passed since Adam and Eve were created.

The land was now full of wicked people. This made God very unhappy.

There was only one good man called Noah. He blessed Noah for being a good person and said

"I will destroy all bad and wicked people. Only you and your family will be saved".

So he asked Noah to build a huge boat called the Ark.

God then said, "Bring your family and two of every kind of animal to the Ark". He also asked him to gather enough food to last for a very long time.

He then told him that in seven days he would send rain which would go on for forty days and forty nights.

The rain would bring a huge flood. Only Noah and his family and the animals on the boat would survive.

Noah did everything that God had asked him to do. He spent many days building the Ark.

He gathered two animals of every kind, gathered food and got inside the Ark with his family.

God sent the rains for forty days and forty nights. Noah and his family were safe inside the Ark.

After the rain had stopped, to know what was going on outside, Noah would send out a dove every day.

But the dove would come back with nothing. One day the dove came back to him with an olive leaf. Noah knew that the Earth was finally drying out.

They stepped out of the boat after a year, very happy to have survived the flood.

I hope you have been listening very carefully, because this question is a little tough.

Tubby, if you answer this question correctly, I will sing along with you.

Ok! Here is the question. How did Noah know it was time to leave the Ark?

I know! I know! He sent out a dove and it came back with an olive branch.

Very good. "All things bright and beautiful; all creatures great and small; all things wise and wonderful; the Lord God made them all."

The Holy Tales.