Short Stories For Kids #5 | Why Is Mrs Whitterkins Outside In Her Nightgown?
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Meet Mrs Whitterkins, The Mayor’s Wife | Alexis Tapp
Here’s Mrs Whitterkins, all dressed up for an important meeting. You can meet Mrs Whitterkins for the first time in ‘Jimba Jackobean and the Bouncer Bangerrings’, the first of my childrens story books in the JackoWhisp series.
Mrs Whitterkins lives with her husband, the Mayor of JackoWhisp Village, at number 1 Whippoorwill Avenue in a very posh house with beautiful wrought iron gates. (Did you discover the answer to the question about wrought iron gates in my last post about the JackoWhisp Series?)

When you meet Hilda Whitterkins for the first time, she is outside in the middle of the night in her nightgown, asking her husband, “Is it an earthquake?”
Her husband, the mayor trembled as he answered, “Could be, but there’s never been an earthquake in JackoWhisp before.”
I won’t spoil the surprise by telling you what it really was, but I will tell you something else about Hilda Whitterkins… she keeps cluckets in a pen in her back yard, and you will meet the cluckets in the third book of the JackoWhisp series of kids story books, ‘Melody Whisper and the Golden Clucket’.
Some quick activities for you:
- Use your imagination to guess what cluckets might be. Type your answer in the comments box below.
- Where might Mrs Whitterkins be going all dressed up?
- Draw Hilda Whitterkins outside at night in her nightgown.
Here’s To Your Wonderful Adventures In The Land Of JackoWhisp,
Alexis Tapp
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All stories in this series
- Short Stories For Kids #1 - Meet Jimba Jackobean
- Short Stories For Kids #2 - The Land Of Jack-o-Whisp
- Short Stories For Kids #3 | Why Do Bouncer Bangerrings Bounce?
- Short Stories For Kids #4 | How Will Mayor Whitterkins Solve This Problem?
- Short Stories For Kids #5 | Why Is Mrs Whitterkins Outside In Her Nightgown?
- Short Stories For Kids #6 | Meet The Mudsloppers
- Short Stories For Kids #7 | Welcome To Jindleberry Woodland – Home Of The Quillarills
- Short Stories for Kids #9 | How A Children's Picture Book Is Made
- Short Stories For Kids #8 | Melody Whisper And The Golden Clucket
- Short Stories For Kids #10 - How A Children's Picture Book Is Illustrated
- Short Stories For Kids #11 - Music for Children's Picture Books
- Short Stories For Kids #12 – Map of The Land of Jackowhisp...






