Sting Ray: Maybe it is a dump truck--a big orange dump truck tipping out piles of rotten
groceries on top of us, and trapping us with the garbage-eating sharks and the
throw-up smell.
Plastic: Wouldn’t a dump truck be louder? I’m sure it’s not a dump truck.
Narrator 4: The backpack thumps down again with a bang.
Lumphy: I would like to be warned. Sudden bumps make everything worse than it
already is.
Sting Ray: (almost in tears) The Little Girl doesn’t love us and she’s trying to get rid of
us!
Narrator 5: The backpack opens. The rumbly noise gets louder, and the light is very
bright – so bright that Sting Ray, Plastic, and Lumphy have to squinch up their
eyes and take deep breaths before they can see where they are.
Narrator 4: A pair of warm arms takes them all out of the dark backpack.
Narrator 3: The three toys look around. There are small chairs, a sunny window, and a
circle of fidgety faces.
Narrator 2: It is not the vet. It is not the zoo. It is not the dump. (They are pretty sure.)
But where is it?
Narrator 1: The rumbly noise surges up. A grown-up asks everyone to Please Be Quiet
Now. And then they hear the familiar voice of the Little Girl.
Little Girl: These are my best friends in the whole world. That’s why I brought them to
show-and-tell.
Narrator 3: Find out more adventures of Lumphy, Plastic, Sting Ray and the Little Girl
by reading Toys Go Out by Emily Jenkins.