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Home > Publications > Happily Ever After story book

Happily Ever After story book

Publication Type: Children's lesson plans Published: 14th July 2020 Size: 5.1MB

A book of emergency tales for children about the ambulance service

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North West Ambulance Service has turned to Grimms age-old fairy tales to educate children on when to call 999. Stories such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty and Hansel and Gretel have been given a modern twist in a book, written by Mathew Owen and illustrated by Emmeline Pidgen, available to download here along with associated lesson plans and resources for teachers and parents.

Happily Ever After story book front cover
A book of emergency tales for children

Humpty Dumpty

Humpty-Dumpty sat on the wall.

Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall.

All the King’s horses and all the King’s men, couldn’t put Humpty together again.

So, a super smart-thinking man phoned 999, and they sent an ambulance in super quick time.

Sleeping Beauty

The handsome Prince is on his way to bravely rescue Sleeping Beauty from the tower. The Prince finds Sleeping Beauty – she is saved!

The handsome Prince is totally exhausted after rescuing Sleeping Beauty. This has caused him to have a seizure.

Luckily for him, Sleeping Beauty has woken up from her long sleep.

Seeing the handsome Prince is sick she acts quickly, remembering to dial 111.

The handsome Prince has had seizures before but feels much better now, which means Sleeping Beauty won’t have to dial 999.

The person from NHS 111 said if the seizures had continued, Sleeping Beauty would’ve had to call for an ambulance.

But Sleeping Beauty kept calm and did the right thing.

Snow White

Fluey, Coughy, Nervy, Dozy, Achy, Itchy And Sniffley are sitting having breakfast with Snow White.

Breakfast finished – now they’re all going off to work, except Sniffley who’s going to the chemist. He has a cold and doesn’t want to spread his germs to his friends at work.

Whilst they are out Snow White eats an apple, but she forgets she’s allergic to them. They make her feel very ill.

Luckily for Snow White, Sniffley has come home to rest. He has some medicine to make him feel better.

Sniffley sees that Snow White is sick and calls an ambulance.

Don’t forget, you should only dial 999 when you think someone is very ill.

Thanks to Sniffley’s quick thinking, the paramedics are able to look after Snow White and make her feel better.

Hansel and Gretel

Hansel & Gretel are having a walk in the woods. They hear something.

It sounds like someone’s had an accident and hurt themselves.

The witch has been baking. She accidentally touched the hot tray and has burnt her hands.

Hansel & Gretel see the witch has burnt her hands. If the burns aren’t bad you can treat them at home by running them under cold water.

If the burns are really bad, you must call the emergency services. Hansel & Gretel have called 999 and now the witch is being cared for by the paramedics.

Other resources

EYFS lesson plan

EYFS role play

EYFS and KS1 ‘999 or not?’ supporting power point

KS1 lesson plan

KS1 newspaper planning sheet

KS2 lesson plan

KS2 ‘999 or not?’ supporting power point

KS2 story planning sheet

We are working on converting these files into pages.

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Download Happily Ever After story book (5.1MB pdf)

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