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Long
ago,
heading
out
to
sea
was
an
adventure
into
the
unknown.
People
believed
that
the
earth
was
_______.
They
thought
if
you
sailed
too
far
away
from
land,
you
would
sail
right
o
the
______
of
the
planet!
It
took
great
_________
to
head
across
the
ocean
in
a
small
ship.
When
sailors
looked
into
the
deep,
dark
sea
from
the
_______
of
a
ship,
they
imagined
strange
and
scary
____________
swimming
there.
One
of
the
scariest
stories
told
and
retold
through
generations
of
__________
was
the
legend
of
the
terrible,
mighty
Kraken!
he
Kraken
is
a
legendary
octopus-like
sea
monster
of
gigantic
size
in
Scandinavian
folklore.
For
hundreds
of
years,
sailors
told
stories
of
a
huge,
many-armed
creature
that
could
reach
the
top
of
a
ship's
main
mast.
They
claimed
it
could
pull
an
entire
ship
underwater!
Sometimes
it
would
swim
in
fast
circles
around
the
ship,
creating
a
whirlpool
that
would
suck
the
ship
under
the
sea.
In
these
stories,
or
legends,
meeting
the
Kraken
never
ended
well
for
the
sailors.
Replace
the
missing
words.
ike many legends, stories about the Kraken
probably started with something real. It may
have been based on sightings of a real species
of squid called the colossal squid.
In some stories about the Kraken is was said that it could oat
on top of the water and look like a group of islands.
Hold this page up to a mirror to use
your peepers to read this paragraph:
For a giant sperm whale, a giant squid is a
nice, lling meal. How do they avoid whales?
Squids have large eyes – its eyes are the largest
of any animal! They are as big as dinner plates,
up to 27cm (11in) across. These
giant peepers are thought to
have evolved to spot the whales
from far away, giving the squid
time to get away.
Official Kids Mag www.kidscoop.comVicki Whiting January 2021
