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Cheeku befriends a squirrel and names her Chikootichoo. Guess who decides to move in with Cheeku?

Cheeku liked to watch squirrels
in the park near his house.
When he was tired of playing
with his friends,
he would lie on the grass
and watch the squirrels.
He always carried peanuts
in his pocket
and left some on the ground,
hoping that the squirrels
would come down
and eat them.
They did just that,
and Cheeku even noticed
a particularly plump squirrel
that was bolder than the others.
She often came close to him
and quickly picked up
a nut in her mouth,
before running back to the tree.
Slowly, she came to recognise Cheeku
and every evening
when she saw him,
she would call out to him
with a shrill “Chikootichoo”.
Gradually
she even learned to accept nuts
from his palm.
Cheeku named her Chikootichoo.
It was the beginning
of a long friendship
between Cheeku and Chikootichoo.
Cheeku always recognised
Chikootichoo,
as her ears were
darker than the other
three striped squirrels in the park.
One day,
when Cheeku was helping Baa
clean the courtyard,
he saw
Chikootichoo sitting on the terrace
and calling out to him.
Happy and surprised,
Cheeku told Baa,
“Look,
Chikootichoo has come to our house!”
Baa smiled and said,
“Maybe, she reached the terrace
by climbing the drain pipe.”
As Baa was speaking,
Chikootichoo jumped into
the courtyard,
ate some crumbs
and scampered away to the park.
Cheeku told Baa excitedly,
“I am so happy that Chikootichoo
came to meet me!”
Baa thought for a while
and answered:
“It should be all right,
as long as she does not build
a nest in the house.”
Soon,
Baa forgot all about Chikootichoo,
but Cheeku was sad.
For the past few days,
he had not seen her in the garden.
Then, one day,
Cheeku opened the door to his room
and heard a rustle.
Frightened,
he closed the door immediately
and called out to Baa.
She held his hand and said,
“Come let us look in your room.
Maybe it is just a bee.”
Baa opened the door
and saw the shadow of a squirrel
behind the window curtain.
The squirrel peeped out from behind
to see what was happening.
Cheeku recognised her
and jumped with joy,
“Oh, it’s my Chikootichoo!”
But, Chikootichoo was frightened
and ran out of the room.
Baa lifted the curtain
and informed Cheeku,
“Chikootichoo has built a nest
in a niche on top of the door.”
She asked Cheeku to climb a chair
and bring the nest down.
The nest was a huge
ball of coconut fibre
that the squirrel had woven
with strings and rags,
but it was empty.
Baa picked it up
and went to the park with Cheeku.
Then, Baa left the nest near a tree.
They hid behind a tree and saw
how Chikootichoo
picked up her nest in her mouth
and carried it up the tree,
placing it on a branch.
Two weeks later,
Cheeku went back to the park
to find Chikootichoo.
This time, she was not alone
but had two tiny baby squirrels
by her side!
Baa gave a bag of peanuts to Cheeku,
saying,
“Chikootichoo may have a brain
no bigger than a jowar seed,
but she has the memory
of an elephant!”

Story: Esther David
Illustration: Emanuele Scanziani
Music: Lidislav Brozman & Riccardo Carlotto
Narration: Kate Cammell
Animation: BookBox

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