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''My Birthday Surprise''
was created especially for
Taro Suzuki
with love from
Mam and Dad
January 3, 2004
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Taro Suzuki was so excited! His
"big"day had finally arrived! He
had reminded everyone in Hachiouji-city
about his birthday on January 3rd,
for a long time. Taro had not
wanted a single person to forget
this special day. Today he was 7. |
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For months now, Taro had been
dreaming day and night about his
party. He had asked his friends
again and again, ''Do you suppose my
birthday will ever get here?'' There
were many names on his invitation
list. Taro hoped Kazu,Yumi
and Taiki could come.
He was really looking
forward to a great time! |
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It seemed to Taro that his dreams
always started out the same way.
He would be sitting in the middle
of an enormous room all dressed up
for his party. Beside him was a
key ring with 10 magic keys, each a
different color. Around him would
be doors, and Taro knew that the
keys were there to open those
matching, colored doors. |
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In each dream, Taro would find
many
happy, wonderful surprises behind
the locked doors....except for one.
There were 11 doors, but only 10
keys. Taro wondered how he would
get into that last room. There
wasn't even a knob on the door.
Every time he would start to search
for the missing key, He would wake
up. Oh well! Maybe Kazu, Yumi
and Taik could help him. |
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In his dreams, Taro liked to start
with the blue key that unlocked the
blue door. The blue room looked as
if it held a billion bouncing balloons.
There were balloons of
different shapes, colors and sizes,
and Taro had fun walking through
them. There was on balloon that
had to be the biggest, bluest
balloon he had ever seen. This was
so much fun, Taro raced on to the
next door! |
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The second door opened up to a white
room with lots and lots of birthday
cakes. There were tiny cakes and
gigantic cakes and cakes just big
enough for Taro to eat all by
himself. Some cakes were huge, but
there was one snowy white cake
behind the white door that had 7
huge layers. It was a cake for
Taro.
He wanted to show all these
beautiful cakes to Kazu, Yumi
and Taiki. |
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When Taro opened the cherry red
door, he almost fell backward! What
a fun dream! In front of him was a
monstrous mountain of melting ice
cream. There were cherries, nuts,
whipped cream and syrup running down
the sides. Taro thought it would
be
so much fun to side down this kind
of mountain. What a delightful,
delicious time he would have!
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Taro giggled when he opened the
orange door to the clown room.
Inside he found forty funny clowns,
most of them with bright orange hair.
There were fat clowns and
thin clowns, short clowns and tall
clowns, happy clowns and sad clowns.
Some clowns did tricks while other
silly clowns just clowned around.
In this orange room, Taro laughed
until
he could laugh no more. |
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The green room had so many presents
that Taro had trouble opening the
door. He wondered if any of the
gifts were from Kazu,Yumi
and Taiki.
He was hoping that one of those
boxes would have something
very nice he could play with on his
birthday. Maybe it was the
gigantic green gift box! Should he
open it? No, he must hurry to the
next door.
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Taro jumped up and down when he
opened the glittering gold door and
found a golden room full of rides
for his birthday party. In the
middle of the room was a beautiful
gold merry-go-round. Surrounding
it, Taro could see the ponies with
their golden saddles, a train ride
and even a small ferris wheel! |
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A pink door opened up into a candy
room.Taro was amazed at all the
candy. He found suckers, gumdrops,
lollipops, peppermint sticks, hard
candies, soft candies and all kinds of
chocolate candies. There was also the
biggest, bubbliest bunch of pink bubble
gum that he had ever seen. Taro knew
that he would have to share this candy
with Kazu,Yumi
and Taiki or he would
have a big tummyache. |
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Behind the brown door were many,
many huggable animals. Taro wanted
to hold and squeeze the soft, cuddly
brown teddy bears, as well as the
cats, dogs monkeys and dinosaurs.
Some of the other animals, like the
giraffe, were taller than Taro.
Other were so small they would fit
in his hand. If he put all these
animals in his room, he might not be
able to find his bed. Wow, that would be neat! |
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When Taro opened the yellow door,
he found a yellow room filled with
games fit for a king. Taro saw pin
the tail on the donkey, a fishing
pond, balloons for water fights,
jacks, musical chairs, drop the
clothespin in the bottle, bobbing
for yellow apples, hopscotch and
ring toss. Taro knew exactly which
games he would play first in the
yellow room. |
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Using the shiny silver key, Taro
opened the
silver door and saw colorful streamers
decorating every inch of the tenth room.
He also found everything else he needed
for his birthday party. Here were the
plates, cups, napkins, forks and spoons.
For his guests, there were stacks and stacks
of silver whistles, silver bells, horns, blowers,
birthday hats and other party favors.
He knew that he was ready for his
birthday party when he saw the squirt guns! |
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Taro found himself in front of
the
last door that had no key. He leaned
against the door to peek through the
keyhole and, as he did, the door
silently opened. He looked inside.
The rainbow-colored room was ready
for a birthday party with something
from each of the other ten rooms, but
Taro
was puzzled. Something was missing!
How could a birthday party be fun if
you were all alone? He became very sad. |
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Suddenly many voices sang out
"Surprise!" and
"Happy Birthday!" at
the same time. Taro Suzuki blinked
his eyes and
immediately stopped daydreaming.
He turned around and saw Kazu,Yumi
and Taiki.
This was his best birthday surprise
of all! Now he knew that having family and
friends was much more important than
all the presents and decorations or
even the cake. Oh, it was fun to be
7
and have a birthday celebration! |
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Happy Birthday!
Taro Suzuki
Where I celebrated my birthday:
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My favorite gift:
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What I liked most about
this birthday:
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People who were with me to
celebrate my birthday:
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