Below are detective cases and Big City "Big Event's." They each include seven clues to solve the mystery. Read one clue at a time. Can you guess what is happening before clue seven?
Detective Case #1:
Clue #1: A strange cloud formation has been seen over the southern part of the Big City. What is the cloud from?
Clue #2: The cloud formation appears every day about lunch time and then dissipates a couple hours later.
Clue #3: Chisel noticed the cloud forms directly over Widipoot Muscrat's farm.
Clue #4: Chisel went to Widipoot's farm at lunch time and found him serving Bar-B-Qued sweet potatoes to other animals.
Clue #5: Chisel did not notice a new cloud, so stayed around and ate some sweet potatoes for lunch.
Clue #6: After lunch Chisel watched Widipoot as he cleaned up his out door kitchen and then dispose of his charcoals.
Clue #7: Widipoot dumped all the hot coals in the little lake next to the lunch area. The steam formed a huge cloud!
Big Event #1:
Clue #1: The mayor has announced an important visitor will be in the big city this Saturday. Who is it?
Clue #2: The mayor said he heard of the news when he was visiting some cats on the south side of town.
Clue #3: The cats said the visitor would be stopping by their neighborhood first.
Clue #4: It was learned that the visitor would next view the exhibit at the museum on Pootan the Cat.
Clue #5: The mayor announced a dinner of fish shaped corn cakes and pumpkin seeds for all animals to honor their guest.
Clue #6: All roads from the Big City to the Great Mootash estate are being groomed.
Clue #7: Loopash, the great-granddaughter of Pootan was honored when she heard of the dinner.
Big Event #2:
Clue #1: The Central Park was roped off today, getting ready for the big event on Saturday. What is the big event?
Clue #2: The grass on Whirler's hill was cut very short and gardeners rolled golf balls down it.
Clue #3: All chickens were asked to bring eggs to City Hall.
Clue #4: Animals, today, were surveying and choosing their eggs.
Clue #5: Fifty-five contestants have signed up for the annual contest.
Clue #6: A debate has started whether regular or hard boiled eggs roll best.
Clue #7: Seven year old Fupoo Muscrat won the egg-roll race with a twenty-one second time.
Big Event #3:
Clue #1: Big City Mayor said he expects the weather on Saturday to be perfect for the event, especially the wind. What's the event?
Clue #2: A big truck full of different types of straw was seen driving into the Big City.
Clue #3: The mayor has asked the best seamstresses in the city to meet at town hall tomorrow.
Clue #4: He also asked the local basket makers to show up with all their tools.
Clue #5: Fifty hot air blowers are being delivered to the town hall on Friday.
Clue #6: The quilter's club was asked to come and get ready to quilt some very big quilts.
Clue #7: All animals necessary assembled in the town hall and made 20 hot air balloons which will be racing.
Big Event #4:
Clue #1: Everyone is waiting for the ribbon cutting ceremony so they can enjoy the new facility in town. What's the new facility?
Clue #2: The boot store is almost sold out of boots. A new shipment is expected in early tomorrow.
Clue #3: The hardware store is also close to sold out of small wheels. More are on order.
Clue #4: Animals are making tiny little skateboards smaller than the size of their feet.
Clue #5: The leather shop has received many requests for long thin strips of leather.
Clue #6: With their tiny skateboards and leather strips the animals are making homemade roller skates.
Clue #7: The new roller rink will be a wonderful place for all to skate and have fun.
I'm often a little sad when I come to the end of an adventure in a long book, and I have to leave the characters I have come to know, but you don't have to be. The fun continues. At the end of "Crazy Great Summer," I have included all of the shops on Main Street in Shady Glen. Cut them out, fold and paste them together, and you have a replica of Chisel's city. There is a mini-poster to hang on your wall whose pictures tell the story of the book, there are four pages that when taped together make the Volcano Island Board Game--you make the game pieces as well. Each book comes with a sheet of trading cards--all the same character. There are fifty different sheets. Can you collect all fifty trading cards? If you are collecting them as a school class, email us your school name, grade level and teacher name, something unusual and interesting about where you live, and your school email so other classes can trade with you. We will put you on our "Hedgehoggers-You News" page.
- Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Color the pictures
- Picture find
- Hoobagoobot
- Hangies/Board pieces
- Mini Poster
- Chisel Stand Up
- Cut out City/Game number cards
- Hidden Valley crossword puzzle
- Tomato target tree
- Scary Forest maze
- Volcano Island board game
- Chisel and you stationary sheet
- Chisel Hedgehog detective stories
- Connect the dots
- Picture puzzle make
- Chisel's favorite recipes
- Name find
- Trading cards
- Pen pals
Book Games Listing:
Answers to book crossword puzzle:
Across: 1.golfballs 11.bats 12.banana 13.diamonds 14.train 16.tree 17.Bootle 19.boulder 20.Bear 22.rat 23.fans 26.volcano 27.wholecherry 28.hedgehog 29.furniture 31.shoes 32.hootbaloot
Down: 2.library 3.sprinkler 4.rooms 5.peanutbutter 6.pennies 7.flashlight 8.Pootan 9.map 10.stinkbomb 15.fly 18.tomatoes 20.balloon 21.unicorn 23.fish 24.sing 25.vortex 30.go
Chisel Hedgehog Crazy Great Summer is three books combined into one. They are called Part One, Two, and Three. Each Part contains many chapters which each take about ten minutes to read.
- Worms for Dinner
- Hedgehog Soup
- The Flying Skateboard
- A People-Person!
- The Hidden Valley
- The Bootle and Chisel Creed
- The Eerie Fog
- Trouble at the Lighthouse
- The Fabulous Feather Trees of Volcano Island
- Monsters in the Jungle
- Smoke, Thunder, and. . ."AAAAGH!"
- The Great Monkey Hoax
- The Pool of Diamonds
- Trouble Getting Home
- Mufobagatrumpeter
- The Ghost of Chisel Hedgehog
- Face-to-Face with a Pterodactyl
- The Runaway Balloon
- The Science Experiment
Part Two: The Flying Skateboard-Plane Expedition
- Tomatoes and Flying Squirrels
- Mean Minks' Surprise
- The Treasure of Pootan's Forest
- Never Ride a Snowball
- Flying Skateboard Accident #3
- The Two-Story Monster Kite
- A Secret Revealed
- Mama, What an Ice Cream Cone!
- The Monkey Mistake
- The Chocolate-Bop Thief
- The Shark Scare and the Tyrannosaurus Rex
- The Flying Skateboard-Plane
- Captain Hedgehog
- Fire in the Sky
- Saved by the Mudpot
- Mountain Mud Fight!
- Mud Beds of Paradise
- Gold in the Snow
- Incredible Igloo Night
- Bears Aren't That Bad
- Spinach For Breakfast
- Trouble at Squirrel Meadow
- More Than Just a Watch
- Wonderful, Wonderful World
Part Three: The Golden Unicorn
- Minks in Underwear
- Pepperoni Pizza Gum
- The Golden Unicorn
- An Exiting Trip Home
- A Chicken Named Chisel
- Golf Balls Galore
- A Hedgehog on Maple Street
- Unidentified Flying Object
- A Martian Named Chisel
- The UFO is Landing
- Talkin and Root to the Rescue
- Ties, Belts, and Fancy Shoes
- Chisel to the Rescue
- The Great Escape
- The Search Begins
- The Second Unicorn
- Stink Bomb War
- Run From the Minks
- The Haunted Woods
- The Tragic Train Ride
- Chisel the Jailbird
- Flying Tomatoes
- Back to the Monster
- The Greatest Unicorn
- Cave of the Tooth
- The Tooth
- The Great-Great-Great Journal
- The First Animal Talker
- Who Said That?
- Leaving the People's Land
- Finding the Answer
- The End of Summer
Instead of singing in the shower like many of the rest of us, Chisel often finds himself singing while walking on his many adventures, and he is usually joined by those animals and things around him. The sounds of the book come to life on the CD between each song, whether it be words from the characters, the sound of the ocean, owls in the night, crickets in the forest, or even the clouds whispering advice. As you read the book, listen to the CD, and the stories come to life! Or listen to the CD by itself for a funfilled journey. Come join me, and Chisel too, in Chisel's adventures inside his world. See you there!See below for a complete listing of CD tracks, and then for selected parts of some songs.
- Intro
- Dear Diary (words)
- I Don't Sing Good
- Here I Go
- Maybe It'd Be Better
- All My Little Fears
- One Step at a Time
- Listen to the Breeze (words)
- Never Have I Seen
- I'm Okay
- Home Is Where
- Walk, Run
- Oh What a Summer
- Jefferson Would Be Proud
- Chisel Hedgehog Theme***
- Monkey, Monkey, Monkey
- Listen to the Breeze (words)
- Built a Boat
- Into the Sun
- Yaay Bootle
- Incredible Igloo Night
- Chased By a Bear
- If You Look
- Big, Bad Minkey Brothers
- Great, Great Summer
- How Can't You Smile
- Cartwheel (words)
- Apple Trees
- Off To Ride the Rails
- Try once
- Once again in a Big, Bad Place
- Beautiful World
- Thinking of the Memories
- Look at the Unicorn
- I've Made Mistakes
- All Alone in a Cave
- Luck's Been With Me
- Yes I Knew I Could
- This is to All the People
- Good Friend, Good Bye
*** When I told the stories to my children, we would always sing the first verse of the Chisel Hedgehog Theme first.
*****
Yeah home is where
You pop that popcorn
Lay on the couch
With a good ole movie on
Check the fridge
In the middle of the night
When your tummy says
"gimme some food"
*****
Yeah, free as a bird
They watched them fly
As they soared and they dove in the
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful sky
Yeah beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, sky-
*****
Into the blue
Wandering sky
Whispering secrets
When I pass by
*****
Yo do lo ol le he
Yo do lo ol le he
Yo do lo ol le he ho!
Yo do lo ol le he ho!
Yo do lo ol le he ho!
*****
Look at the wonders
Like the grass in the wind
Like the sun
Setting in the sky
Shadows, like paintings
From the trees in the night
Or the moon
Like a bulb in the sky
*****
Chased by a bear
And the bear is here
And we're tired of crawling
JUST EAT US BEAR!
*****
I look at the moon
Looking down at me
And smile at the twinkling
Stars I see
I feel the breeze
As it cools my cheeks
And I thank heaven
For the apple trees
And the sun shines
Down on them
And they drink from the streams
That the clouds have sent
And I thank heaven
For the apple trees
*****
If you look
At the world
From the place
Where we look at it now
You will see
Differently
You will see
Things aren't what you thought
Come with us
Take a ride
See the world
Through a whole different light-
From a whole different view-
For it's howwwwwwwwwww
How you look
What you see
Yeah it's howwwwwwwwww
How you look
What you see
Come with me
*****
Listen to the breeze
Talk to the trees
Ask Mr. Summer
What he has in store
Wave to the night
Sing to the moon
Wonder if tomorrow
Brings a friend or two
Yeah, laugh with the clouds
Dance with the wind
Close your eyes and glide
Through your mind's blue sky
*****
Built a boat
And we know how to sail it
Built the best ship
On the seas
Now we'll sail
Off into the sunset
Set a course
For the open sea
*****
Well how can't you smile
On a day like this
With the sun shining down
And the grass loving it
Pine trees pointin'
At the clouds overhead
With the clear blue sky
And the birds lovin' it
Yeah, how can't you smile
I just can't say
It's a beautiful world
It's a beautiful day!
*****
And I am on another adventure
To spy on the moon rising up in the sky
And I'll salute the sun in the morning
And say Hello to the clouds up high
*****
I don't sing good
But it's what I like to do
And my toes like the sound
And the beat of the music
And I don't always rhyme
But it's what I like to do
So I sing out loud
To the trees that enjoy it
*****
Once again
In a big bad place
And once again
I'm scared
Once again
I find myself
In a big
Uncertain world
Yeah once again
I just don't know
If I can
Really make it
I don't know
If deep inside
I have the strength
To take it
Once again
I look within
And see what
I am made of
*****
Well look at the unicorn
Look at the houses
Look at the things
That I have found
Look back in time
To all that has happened
Now the history
Speaks out loud
The years are whispering
To my soul
They're telling of
The times untold
The stories of
Who lived before
Are flowing from
Each page's door
*****
Well I've made mistakes in life
But this I can say
I always try
To do what is right
When I stumble along my way
And I'm sorry for my faults
And I'm sorry for
The things I've done
But I'm thankful for
All of the way I've come
And I've fought the battles
And I've fought the war
And I'll keep trying
Just one time more
And when I fall down
Well I will always get up
Until I am told
Well you're forgiven son
And I'm looking for
The hidden sun
Cause after the rain
I know the sunshine comes
You just gotta wait
And stand up straight
And then pretty soon
All the clouds have gone
*****
All alone in a cave like this
And I can feel the loneliness....
Where's that sun
And where's that sky
That make me smile
As the day goes by
Where's my friends
In the cold dark night
When the stars don't shine
And there is no light
Yeah, where am I and
Where have I been and
Where am I going
And where's the end
Where's there a hand
That I can hold
That lights the fire
Down inside my soul...
*****
And when the rain clouds are stormin'
And the sun is a scorchin'
When somebody says they don't like my face
I look at all the grass around
I hear the birds making sounds
I look at trees that seem to smile at me
I grab the corners of my mouth
And pull them up towards my ears
Until they finally stay there all by themselves
And then the world's not so bad
And I feel luck comin' back
And life is wonderful all over again
*****
This is to all the people
Who never thought they could
This is to all the people
Who never thought they would
This is to all the people
Who don't have faith enough
They don't trust
Just quite enough
They don't know
This is to all the people
Who have a pounding dream
This is to all the people
With never dying needs
This is to all the people
Who work like rabid dogs
Through sweat and pain
Goals to attain
They never stop
Keep right
Don't change your course now
Set your sights
Aim in at your goal
Hold tight
Don't ever let go
Steer high
Don't look at the ground
Always try
Never say I can't
By and by
You'll make it somehow
The peaks of mountains
Are never reached by easy steps
The valleys down below
Require no test
And those with hope
Do know that they can never rest
They just fight on
Till the battle's won
Victorious
In olden days
The deathly seas were hard to cross
But people sailed in boats for weeks
Willing to risk the loss
They knew that if they doubted
Then they would never start
So look ahead
Into the wind
Follow your heart
*****
Never is easy to do
Ain't somethin' I look forward to
Often brings a tear to a good man's eye
Always is hard when the time comes by
Remember all the things that we have done
Always have them to ponder on
Funny how the time is finally gone
Hard to say the words but the time has come
Well, Gotta say good bye now
Cause I know you have to run
Gotta think of the times
That we did have
Gotta fight back
When the tears almost come
Gotta hold my head
Up in the air
Yeah, gotta smile
And think of things you've said
Gotta say good friend,
Good-bye to you
Never lived a year when I didn't see
The flowers not bloom, or the seasons change
Only one thing that I know for sure
Everything will change a little more...
...Can't stop the smoke rising in the air
Can't stop the snow falling everywhere
The world keeps turning, have to turn with it
And we should always remember this
- Intro
Part One: Search for the Past