Small mysteries - big impact! Exciting texts for guessing and chuckling - featuring animals as main characters or figures from the land of Fantasia - motivate children to read and tell stories. The stories and worksheets in German and (simplified and altered) in English provide diverse material for both subjects or interdisciplinary teaching. They can also be used in open teaching, station training, or substitute lessons. Each text comes with two worksheets that are well-suited for independent work. Highly motivated, children decode secret messages or match silhouettes to characters. They observe closely and proceed logically with a detective's intuition. Last but not least, the material encourages writing and creating profiles, sequels, or comics alongside the learning process.