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Story Snack: Secrets of the Scribes

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After the Bookworm eats a scroll, he panics about ruining history, only to watch the scribe's teacher calmly recite the story from memory to rewrite it.

The Bookworm leads a bite-sized adventure to ancient Egypt, exploring a scribal school where students learn hieroglyphs on papyrus. When his hunger gets the better of him and he eats part of a sacred scroll, he discovers the scribes' true secret: their shared knowledge and memory allow stories to survive for thousands of years.

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