Crash! "Oh, no!" says Charlie. "I must get a robot to clean my room."

Charlie has too many things in his room. A lot of them are on the bed - some books, his bat, his ball, a boat. And now Charlie can't find his binoculars. He wants to look at the postman through the window. He thinks the postman is a spy.

"That postman has a very big bag and I think there's a radio in it. And perhaps his pen is a gun. I must find my binoculars," Charlie says.

Charlie is always watching people and listening to them. And he is always thinking strange things. Sometimes he tells the police and they laugh at him.

Charlie's home is in a tall building. From his window he can see far away. He likes looking ot of his window. With his binoculars he can see a lot of other buildings and some hills. Charlie thinks that the hills are a thousand miles away, but he wants to go and walk in them one day.

Mark Foster and Phillip Burrows: The THursday Thief

Hotshot Puzzles Level 1 (200 headwords); Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999