Flat Stanley's Fruit Adventure

Flat Stanley was hungry!  "I wonder what there is to eat in Israel," he thought and off he went to find some breakfast.  The first fruit he encountered was roundish and bright orange.  But what was it?  The skin was smooth, not bumpy like a tangerine.  And it wasn't shaped like an orange.  What in the world could it be?  "That's my favorite fruit to eat in Israel," I told Stanley.  "It's a persimmon."  Persimmons grow all along the coastline in Israel. Every year 16,000 tons of persimmons are grown in Israel and sent all around the world (some are even sent to Needham!) for people to eat.  "I can't wait to try my first persimmon," thought Stanley.  "But what else can I eat around here?"


He searched and searched until he found a little green pear.  "I know what this is!  It's a pear!  And I love pears!  I eat them all the time back in Massachusetts.  I am so happy they have pears in Israel, too!"  So Stanley gathered his bright orange persimmon and his little green pear and brought them along.

"If only I had one more fruit," thought Stanley.  "I already have a bright orange persimmon and a little green pear.  Perhaps something red this time."  Poor Stanley was really getting hungry, so I thought I'd help a bit.  "Stanley, look what I found!  Do you know what this is?" I asked him, holding up a big red fruit.  Stanley looked confused.  It was red like an apple, but it wasn't an apple.  It was round like an orange, but it wasn't an orange.  And it was smooth like a watermelon, but he just knew it couldn't be a watermelon.  So I decided to tell him the answer.  "Stanley, this is a pomegranate.  In Hebrew its name is rimon.  The rimon grows in Israel, too!  And this rimon is so BIG!  I have never seen a rimon this big at Trader Joe's!"  

Hooray!  He had done it.  Stanley had his bright orange persimmon, his little green pear, and his big red rimon.  But what would Stanley do?  He was a flat boy!  He couldn't eat all of this round fruit!  How would it fit into his flat stomach?  Suddenly Stanley had an idea.  He would cut the little green pear, the bright orange persimmon, and the big red rimon into tiny pieces.  Fruit salad!  And finally, Flat Stanley sat down and enjoyed his first breakfast in Israel.