Little T and the Forbidden Teddy Bears

Far away, in a lovely land of palm trees and dates a baby boy was born with ears as big as rhubarb leaves. At the sight of them, his father was ready to die of shame: “Poor, poor me!” he lamented, “Poor me, to have fathered such a son!” But those ears of his made Little T exceptionally good at hearing things nobody else could hear:  the sound of a snail, of a strawberry, a shooting star… And one day he heard from far, far away, the sound of some very unhappy teddy bears…