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Speaker 1: Lewis story. The story you were about to enjoy was
Speaker 1: inspired by a violet thank you so much for your
Speaker 1: amazing idea. After playing their new board game Candy Forest
Speaker 1: all afternoon, Levi and Ivy couldn't think of anything else
Speaker 1: but candy, gummy bears, licorice, chocolate, sour snacks, jellybeans, and
Speaker 1: cotton candies. It all sounded amazing, so they asked their
Speaker 1: parents if they could run down to the candy shop
Speaker 1: in town to get a sweet treat. Their parents agreed
Speaker 1: and told them to only get one candy each. It
Speaker 1: was almost time for dinner, and they didn't want them
Speaker 1: filling up on sugar. Levin and Ivy excitedly jumped onto
Speaker 1: their bikes and rode down the street to the candy
Speaker 1: shop next to the library. Once inside, they saw their
Speaker 1: friend Violet. Violet's family owned the candy shop, which every
Speaker 1: kid in the neighborhood thought was just about the coolest
Speaker 1: job you could have as an adult. Because of that,
Speaker 1: Violet was usually in a really good mood. I mean,
Speaker 1: who wouldn't be if you were surrounded by candy all day?
Speaker 1: But that day was different. Violet looked a bit down,
Speaker 1: so Levi and Ivy tried their hardest to cheer her up.
Speaker 1: Hi a Violet called out, Ivy, we just had to
Speaker 1: stop by because we've been playing that new board game,
Speaker 1: Candy Forest all afternoon. It's so much fun, but it
Speaker 1: makes you pretty hungry for candy, said Levi, looking around
Speaker 1: at the store with a bit of a surprise look
Speaker 1: on his face. Yep, it's a pretty cool game, said
Speaker 1: Violet with a sad sigh, having to save candy forests
Speaker 1: from king no sweets.
Speaker 3: Good thing.
Speaker 1: It's only a game, right, Imagine a world with no candy.
Speaker 1: Talking about the board game was not making Violet smile
Speaker 1: as Levi and Ivy had intended. Instead, their friend was
Speaker 1: looking sadder and sadder, And as Levi and now Ivy
Speaker 1: looked around the candy shop, they started to see why.
Speaker 1: It kind of looks like a world with no candy
Speaker 1: and here, Violet, said Levi with a half smile.
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 1: Are you waiting for a delivery? Yeah, I've never seen
Speaker 1: it so empty in here, added Ivy. But I'm sure
Speaker 1: the candy trucks will arrive any minute, when the candy
Speaker 1: shop will be filled with sweet treats. Again, not exactly,
Speaker 1: said Violet. The delivery isn't late. We're not waiting for
Speaker 1: any trucks. The real problem is Violet pause, looking like
Speaker 1: she was going to cry. The real problem is we're
Speaker 1: running out of candy, said Violet. Yeah, that's what we said.
Speaker 1: Your store is running out of candy. So if you
Speaker 1: just put in an order, your problem will be solved
Speaker 1: by thinking it was a simple fix. No, Leviot's not
Speaker 1: that easy, added Violet. The candy shop is running out
Speaker 1: of candy because the world is running out of candy.
Speaker 1: Levi and Ivy couldn't believe what they were hearing how
Speaker 1: could that be. They knew Violet had more to tell them,
Speaker 1: so they let her talk. The board game you're playing
Speaker 1: isn't exactly just a board game, Violet began, It's happening
Speaker 1: for real. Violet then went on to tell her friends
Speaker 1: how candy Forest is a real place. It's where all
Speaker 1: the candy shops in the world get their candy from.
Speaker 1: King No Sweets has always tried to shut the forest down,
Speaker 1: but now he's actually doing it, and Violet's parents and
Speaker 1: the other candy store owners don't know how to stop him.
Speaker 1: They were away that afternoon meeting with some other shop
Speaker 1: owners to try and figure out how to stop the King.
Speaker 1: King No Sweets is in the candy Forest right now,
Speaker 1: trying to take all the candy away.
Speaker 3: Violet went on.
Speaker 1: He only wants healthy food to be available to kids,
Speaker 1: and while I know having a healthy diet is really important,
Speaker 1: a little candy here and there is okay too. Levi
Speaker 1: and Ivy couldn't believe what they were hearing, and they
Speaker 1: didn't know what to say. But for the first time
Speaker 1: they had been in the candy shop, Violet looked hopeful.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, you both.
Speaker 1: Said, you've been playing Candy Forest all afternoon, right, asked Violet.
Speaker 1: How good are you at the game? I don't want
Speaker 1: a brad, but we're both pretty good, said Levi. We've
Speaker 1: figured out how to beat King No Sweets pretty much
Speaker 1: at every turn, said Ivy.
Speaker 3: Why do you ask?
Speaker 1: Because I think if we work together, then maybe we
Speaker 1: can help save Candy Forest, said Violet with a smile.
Speaker 1: Levi and Ivy were very interested in helping get back
Speaker 1: the world's candy supply, so they agreed to help Violet.
Speaker 1: After talking strategy for a bit, Levi and Ivy ran
Speaker 1: home to grab their board game. Violet said they could
Speaker 1: use that as a way to get to the Candy
Speaker 1: Forest quickly. Once home, Levi and Ivy told their parents
Speaker 1: they were helping Violet with something at the candy shop
Speaker 1: and could they please stay a little bit longer. Both
Speaker 1: their parents love Violet and her family and said that
Speaker 1: would be okay. Now. Back at the candy store, Levi, Ivy,
Speaker 1: and Violet got ready to take a trip. With the
Speaker 1: clothes sign on the candy shop door, the three friends
Speaker 1: walked into the back room, put the Candy Forest game
Speaker 1: board on the ground, and tried to prepare themselves for
Speaker 1: whatever happened.
Speaker 3: Next, Violet told.
Speaker 1: Her friends to hold hands, close their eyes, and jump
Speaker 1: when she said go. They waited patiently as Violet started
Speaker 1: to recite a little poem.
Speaker 3: Candy forest, sugary, sweet, full of tasty things to eat.
Speaker 3: We have to visit. It's candy.
Speaker 1: We need. Please get us there with lightning and speed. Ready,
Speaker 1: Levi and Ivy asked Violet as a breeze began to
Speaker 1: swirl around them. As ready as we can be to
Speaker 1: jump into a board game, defeat a menacing king, and
Speaker 1: return the world's candy supply, said Levi with his eyes closed. Good,
Speaker 1: answered Violet. Ivy squeezed her brother's hand and they both
Speaker 1: waited until Violet called.
Speaker 2: Out to go.
Speaker 1: Then they all jumped toward the board game on the floor,
Speaker 1: and within seconds they were transported to cant the very
Speaker 1: same one in their game, well almost, with king no
Speaker 1: sweets in charge. It was lacking the one thing that
Speaker 1: made it truly special, candy. The forest seemed quite sad,
Speaker 1: and Levi and Ivy knew they had to act quick.
Speaker 1: It's worse than I thought, said Violet, looking around. I've
Speaker 1: never seen the trees, bushes, flowers and vines so empty
Speaker 1: before there's hardly any candy left. That's when they heard
Speaker 1: a low, deep voice booming from the center of the forest.
Speaker 1: It didn't take long to figure out who it was,
Speaker 1: King No Sweets. He was talking about how his plan
Speaker 1: to shut down the forest was almost complete. I started
Speaker 1: with the cotton candy trees, then moved on to the
Speaker 1: jellybean bushes, the chocolate dropped flowers.
Speaker 3: And on and on and on. The King laughed.
Speaker 1: Pretty soon all the world will have to eat our
Speaker 1: fresh fruits and veggies, my favorite. That's not fair, whispered Ivy.
Speaker 1: I have my favorite fruits and veggies too, but I
Speaker 1: also have my favorite chocolates and candies. Sometimes sweet treats
Speaker 1: are really nice, and the King doesn't have the right
Speaker 1: to take them away from everyone. At that moment, the
Speaker 1: three friends could feel someone looming over them. When they
Speaker 1: turned slowly around, they came face to face with King
Speaker 1: No Sweets. Oh it's not fair, is it, called out
Speaker 1: the King as he stared at the three frightened friends.
Speaker 1: It wasn't fair when you started dipping dried fruit and
Speaker 1: sugar and calling it a good snack. And don't get
Speaker 1: me started on chocolate covered raisins.
Speaker 3: How could you.
Speaker 1: Those things are tasty, King, and we don't put candy
Speaker 1: on fruit all the time, Levi began, Yeah, there are
Speaker 1: so many other fruits and veggies in the world for
Speaker 1: you to eat, So why do you have to take
Speaker 1: away all our candy?
Speaker 3: Asked Ivy.
Speaker 1: It's simple, since you did it all those other times,
Speaker 1: you could start covering all the fruits and veggies in
Speaker 1: the world and sugar and chocolate, grumbled the king, yuck.
Speaker 3: Then what would I have left to eat? Then all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, Levi.
Speaker 1: Ivy and Violet knew what was going on. The King
Speaker 1: was feeling the same way they were feeling when they
Speaker 1: thought the sweet treats and candy would be gone forever.
Speaker 1: They were feeling upset and sad, and we're going to
Speaker 1: do whatever it took to make sure that didn't happen.
Speaker 1: The King was feeling the same way. But what the
Speaker 1: King didn't think of was the negative impact his decision
Speaker 1: to close down Candy Forest would have on so many
Speaker 1: other people. Levi, Ivy and Violet were always taught to
Speaker 1: think of others, and now they had to teach that
Speaker 1: lesson to the king. While Levi and Ivy were great
Speaker 1: at Candy Forest, the board game, they quickly learned that
Speaker 1: this was not a game.
Speaker 3: It was real. Wife.
Speaker 1: They had to talk to King No Sweets and get
Speaker 1: him to understand that there were other ways that he
Speaker 1: could get what he wanted, and those ways didn't include
Speaker 1: closing down Candy Forest. If you give us a minute
Speaker 1: to talk together, I think we can come up with
Speaker 1: a solution that will work for everyone. Violet pleaded with
Speaker 1: the King. The King didn't have high hopes for the discussion,
Speaker 1: but he allowed the three friends to talk and agreed
Speaker 1: to listen to them. While he waited, he went about
Speaker 1: his daily routine of covering all the trees, bushes, flowers,
Speaker 1: and vines and candy forests with a heavy amount of water.
Speaker 1: Now you would think that would be helpful, since all
Speaker 1: living things need water to grow, But in candy forests,
Speaker 1: all the trees, bushes, flowers, and vines need to be
Speaker 1: fed sugar as water melts the candy that they all produce.
Speaker 1: We need to work fast, said Violet to Levi and Ivy.
Speaker 1: Now you said you knew how to stop King No
Speaker 1: Sweets at every turn in the board game, so do it.
Speaker 1: We can't, answered Ivy. We can't use the same things
Speaker 1: that we use during the game. Because the King is real.
Speaker 1: We need to talk to him and explain how what
Speaker 1: he's doing is wrong. We need to make him see
Speaker 1: how this is affecting other people, added Levi. He started
Speaker 1: doing all this because he was scared about losing his
Speaker 1: favorite treats, so he knows how it feels to be us.
Speaker 1: We have to make him see that there's a way
Speaker 1: for everyone to get what they want without taking any away.
Speaker 1: Violet trusted her friends and followed her lead as they
Speaker 1: walked back over to King. No sweets to talk.
Speaker 3: So what do you have in store for me? Asked
Speaker 3: the King with a smile, Throwing.
Speaker 1: Some sticky sour suckers at me to stick me to
Speaker 1: the ground so I can't move, or maybe dropping some
Speaker 1: freeze dried fruit candy on my head to freeze me
Speaker 1: in place, or how about pushing me into a river
Speaker 1: of chalcolate so.
Speaker 3: I float away from here.
Speaker 1: Well, none of your little board game strategies you're going
Speaker 1: to work here because this is real life and not
Speaker 1: a game. We know, said Ivy, interrupting the King. That's
Speaker 1: why we're not going to use any tricks from the
Speaker 1: game to stop you. We just want to talk and
Speaker 1: tell you how what you're doing is affecting other people
Speaker 1: and making them sad, just the way you felt when
Speaker 1: you thought there was a chance that all your favorite
Speaker 1: treats would go away forever, said Levi. King No sweets
Speaker 1: stopped what he was doing. He was surprised at how
Speaker 1: Levi and Ivy were going to handle the situation and
Speaker 1: somewhat curious to hear what they had to say.
Speaker 3: So was Violet.
Speaker 1: They started by asking the King to sit down and
Speaker 1: think of some of his happiest childhood memories with food.
Speaker 1: He went on to tell them about snacking on fresh apples,
Speaker 1: juicy berries, and tasty.
Speaker 3: Bananas when he was little.
Speaker 1: He smiled as he told stories about eating vegetable stew
Speaker 1: with his parents and their castle, and sugar treating for
Speaker 1: baby carrots and his home kingdom.
Speaker 3: We have great memories like that too, said Levi.
Speaker 1: My favorite birthday dinner is pasta with my mom's fresh
Speaker 1: tomato sauce and a big salad filled with all the veggies.
Speaker 3: We grow in our garden.
Speaker 1: But I also have wonderful memories of candy filled pignats
Speaker 1: at my birthday parties. And cupcakes topped with little sugar balloons.
Speaker 1: Ivy and Violet saw what Levi was doing and started
Speaker 1: to tell all their favorite food stories filled with both
Speaker 1: sugary and healthy snacks. I can promise you that no
Speaker 1: one in our world wants to add candy or sugar
Speaker 1: to all the fruits and veggies you enjoy, said Levi.
Speaker 1: I know you must have felt terrible when you thought
Speaker 1: those tasty treats would be gone forever.
Speaker 3: I know because that's how we're feeling right now.
Speaker 1: Yes, you have to believe us, said Ivy. If you
Speaker 1: stop what you're doing, then everyone can have.
Speaker 3: What they want.
Speaker 1: We'll still enjoy our fruits and veggies just like you,
Speaker 1: but we'll also be able to enjoy a candy apple
Speaker 1: in the fall or a cotton candy at the state fair. Please, King,
Speaker 1: no sweets, started Violet. Candy is my family's business. It's
Speaker 1: our whole life, and we couldn't imagine a world without it,
Speaker 1: and neither should any little kid like us.
Speaker 3: Levi, Ivy, and Violet pled their case to the King.
Speaker 1: They just hoped that they really heard what they were
Speaker 1: saying and it made them feel what he was doing
Speaker 1: was wrong. As the three friends sat in silence. They
Speaker 1: watched as the king wiped a tear from his cheek.
Speaker 1: They knew they had gotten through to him. It's not
Speaker 1: a great feeling to think that your favorite food is
Speaker 1: being taken away forever, said the king. And I don't
Speaker 1: want you or anyone else to have that feeling, So
Speaker 1: I guess I can let candy forest go back to
Speaker 1: growing the world's candy like before. Levi Ivy and Violet
Speaker 1: couldn't control themselves as they jumped up and.
Speaker 3: Hugged the king.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, enough of that, said the King. Just promise
Speaker 1: to lay of sugar coating any more.
Speaker 3: Of my fruits and vegetables. Don't worry, King, there.
Speaker 1: Will be plenty of healthy treats for everyone, said Violet.
Speaker 1: The king then left to return to his kingdom as
Speaker 1: Levi Ivy and Violet started feeding all the trees, bushes, flowers,
Speaker 1: and vines in the candy forest with the sugar they
Speaker 1: were missing so much. In no time, all the cotton
Speaker 1: candy bloomed again, Chocolate drops sprouted from flowers, and gummy
Speaker 1: worms poked their heads out of the chocolate cookie dirt
Speaker 1: to say thank you, Violet. Levi and Ivy returned back
Speaker 1: to the candy shop just in time to make it
Speaker 1: home for dinner. I can't wait to tell my parents
Speaker 1: what we did today, said Violet. I'm gonna call them
Speaker 1: right now. They'll be forever grateful for you save in
Speaker 1: our business and the world's candy supply. Happy to help,
Speaker 1: said Ivy and Levi as they gave their friend a hug.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they would want you to have a little
Speaker 1: treat to say thank you, said Violet. Please take whatever
Speaker 1: you'd like. How about we come back tomorrow when you're all.
Speaker 3: Stocked up, suggested Levi.
Speaker 1: We don't want to spoil our appetites for dinner, said Ivy.
Speaker 3: Our mom is making our favorite.
Speaker 1: Veggie chili and cheese casadillas. The King would be happy
Speaker 1: to hear. That, could go, Violet. Levi and Ivy laughed too,
Speaker 1: looking forward to their delicious, healthy dinner, but knowing they'd
Speaker 1: be back at the candy shop soon for some sweet treats.
Speaker 1: That's because they've always known that enjoying any food in
Speaker 1: small amounts is more than fine, and thanks to them
Speaker 1: now the King knows too.
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