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The Calendar

Story Stats

Rating: 5
Grade Level: 4, 5
Page count: 2
Categories: Fantasy

Author

Barbara Ann
Porte

Appeared in

New Handbook for Storytellers

Story Summary

To help her hapless daughter get organized, a mother makes out a calendar of chores. Once the girl gains momentum, she starts doing chores ahead of schedule until one day she walks into the kitchen an old women having lived her entire live in advance.