Synopsis:
A narrator sits in front of a roaring fire and begins to
tell the wonderful story of Mr Snowpenny...
Mr and Mrs Snowpenny
lived on a farm in the countryside. It had always been their dream to make and
sell ice cream. So one day, they made a batch of ice-cream and Mr Snowpenny set
off to the nearby village to sell it. Unfortunately on that hot summer’s day
the ice-cream melted before he could get it to the customers. No-one would buy
the melted ice-cream. This happened every day!
Mr Snowpenny was
devastated. The problem was that he wasn’t getting to the village fast enough.
The ice-cream always melted before he got there. He realised that he needed to
improve the speed of his bicycle. First he tried a slingshot, but this just
threw him into a hedge! Next he tied rockets onto his bicycle but these just
blew up in his face!
Mr Snowpenny didn’t
know what to do. He sat in his kitchen and thought and thought until the sun
went down. As he turned on the light, inspiration struck him. He had an idea!
He rushed to his shed and started working immediately. He finally emerged in
the morning light, ready to deliver his ice-cream. But what had he invented?
He delivers the
ice-cream with perfect ease, serving one satisfied customer after another. So
how did he do it? Well Mr Snowpenny had turned his bicycle into a teleporter!
This allowed him to get from A to B instantly! So Mr and Mrs Snowpenny finally
fulfilled their dream of making and selling delicious ice-cream.
The narrator closes
the storybook... “But the story doesn’t end there” he says...
Mr Snowpenny’s
invention helped people all over the world. Farmers used it to transport their
crops to people all over the world. World hunger was ended as aid workers could
much more easily transport food to the hungry. And best of all people stopped
using cars and aeroplanes. This meant less fossil fuel was used, which was
hurting the environment. Families all over the world started to use the
bicycles which were only powered by a little leg work.
So that is the story
of how one man and his bicycle changed the world...
The End
Themes Addressed:
This story seeks to show how technology could be used to help meet some of the Millenium Goals - specifically developing a global partnership for development, eradicating hunger and ensuring environmental sustainability.