A Mother’s Day Mix: The Ambitious Millipede’s Mother’s Day Gift And Happy Thanksbirthgivingday

In THE AMBITIOUS MILLIPEDE’S MOTHER’S DAY GIFT, an ambitious but forgetful millipede realizes what day it is at the last minute, which means that he doesn’t have a gift. His siblings don’t see a problem, advising him to give a simple hug, the very gift that each one of them is going to give. A hug? That’s too run of the mill for the ambitious millipede, and so he goes out to find a much, much better gift. Fortunately for him, not only is he ambitious, but he’s also clever, and he soon thinks of the perfect gift for his many-footed mother: shoes. Where, though, can he get his hands on some in a hurry? It’s a spiderweb that he happens upon that answers that question for him. Fortunately for him, not only is he ambitious and clever, but he’s also bold, and so he boldly asks a spider to sew him lots of shoes. The spider reluctantly agrees, but one spider alone won’t be able to make enough shoes in time, so the ambitious millipede has no choice but to go all around to get more spiders to volunteer their sewing services. Needless to say, the task takes all day and all night. But will it be worth it in the end? And in HAPPY THANKSBIRTHGIVINGDAY, a little boy, irked at having to share his birthday with Thanksgiving, spurns merrymaking in favor of moping about his shabby shindig. All his guests asleep after the big holiday meal, he has to wait until they wake up to open his gifts, which gives him one more thing to grumble about. To while away the time, the bugged birthday boy befriends a slice of pumpkin pie, not knowing that the dessert will put things in perspective for him with some wise words.