Little Grunt and the Big Egg
A Readers Theater
Narrator 1 Narrator 2 Little Grunt Papa Grunt Mama Grunt
Unca Grunt Ant Grunt Granny Grunt George
Chief Rockhead Grunt
Narrator 1: Once upon a time, in a big cave, past the volcano on the left, lived the Grunt
Tribe. There was Unca Grunt, Ant Grunt, Granny Grunt, Mama Grunt, and Papa Grunt.
Narrator 2: Their leader was Chief Rockhead Grunt. The smallest Grunt of all was
Little Grunt.
N1: One Saturday morning, Mama Grunt said to Little Grunt...
Mama Grunt: Little Grunt, tomorrow the Ugga-Wugga Tribe are coming for Sunday
brunch. Could you please go outside and gather two dozen eggs?
Little Grunt: Yes, Mama Grunt.
N2: So off Little Grunt went. At that time of year, eggs were hard to find. Little
Grunt looked and looked. No luck. He was getting tired.
Little Grunt: What am I going to do? I can't find a single egg. I'll try one more place.
N1: It was a good thing that he did, because there, in the one more place, was the
biggest egg Little Grunt had ever seen!
N2: It was too big to carry. It was too far to roll. And besides, Little Grunt has to be
careful. Eggs break very easily.
Little Grunt: I know!
N1: He gathered some of the thick pointy leaves that were growing nearby. He wove
them into a mat. Then he carefully rolled the egg on top of it. He pulled and pulled and
pulled the egg all the way home.
Mama Grunt: My goodness!
Papa Grunt: What an egg!
Unca Grunt: That will feed us AND the Ugga-Wuggas.
Ant Grunt: And even th
