The Day The Bulldozers Came
The day the bulldozers came
The day the bulldozers came
Rooks were building
Crazy egg baskets in the oaks;
Stanza 1
Green flies sizzled by the pond
And a cold-eyed toad
Waited for them.
The day the bulldozers came
Squirrels were scattering
Up tree trunks,
Stanza 2
And leapt from branches
That were hardly there.
The fox
Stirred in his sleep
As the ground trembled.
Stanza 3
‘Ha ha!’ he thought,
Rooks were building
Crazy egg baskets in the oaks;
Meaning Green flies sizzled by the pond
And a cold-eyed toad
Waited for them.
The day the bulldozers came
When the bulldozers came to the forest, Rooks (a type of bird) were
Squirrels were scattering
making nests (egg baskets) in oak trees.
Up tree trunks,
And leapt from branches
Green flies were buzzing around the pond while a toad was waiting to eat
That were hardly there.
them.
The fox
Stirred in his sleep
As the ground trembled.
‘Ha ha!’ he thought,
‘I’m quite safe,
Deep down
When the bulldozers came in
to the
the Earth,
forest, squirrels were scared and they
No one can get
were running up the trees. They metried
here.’
to leap from branch to branch, but
Then the bulldozer came.
the tree branches were no longer there. The bulldozers had knocked them
down.
The fox woke up from his nap but he went back to sleep. He felt the
ground shake but he thought he was safe deep down in the foxhole.
However, the bulldozers came and dug him out of the soil!
 ‘I’m quite safe,

Deep down in the Earth,

No one can get me here.’

Then the bulldozer came.

Pictures to help you understand

1.
Bulldozers

2. Rooks

A type of crow
3. oaks

4. Green
flies

5. toad
6.
squirrels

7.
branches
8. Fox