The Lost Child at the Market
A free A1-level English story for language learners, readable online in 5 languages, with an option to listen via the free Storyteller app.
Lupita finds a crying boy at a busy market and helps him look for his dad.
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It is Saturday, and the market is busy. Lupita walks between the stalls. She needs tomatoes for her mom.
Many people talk and laugh. Then she hears crying. A small boy stands alone by a box of oranges. His face is wet.
Lupita kneels down. "Hello," she says. "What is your name?"
"Teo," the boy says.
"Where is your dad, Teo?"
"I don't know," he says. He cries again.
"It is okay," Lupita says. "Let's look for him together. What does your dad wear?"
"A yellow hat."
"Good. Hold my hand."
They walk through the market. Lupita looks for a yellow hat. She sees many people, but no yellow hat.
"Where did you see your dad last?" she asks.
"At the fruit stall," Teo says. "He buys apples."
"Then let's go there and wait," she says.
They stand by the fruit stall. The seller gives Teo a slice of apple. He stops crying and eats it.
Soon a man in a yellow hat runs to them. "Teo!" he shouts. Teo runs to him, and the man picks him up.
"Thank you," the dad says. He gives Lupita a big red apple.
She takes it and goes back to find her tomatoes.
