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He orders a carpenter to build a tower reaching the sky, escalating demands that force increasingly risky construction. To satisfy the king, the carpenter ultimately removes a supporting bottom box, causing the tower to collapse. The king falls and learns that his ambition cannot be achieved as he imagined.","The King Who Wanted to Touch the Moon  \nEnglish Traditional Story  \nThe King Who Wanted to Touch the  \nMoon  \nA traditional story from the West Indies Retold by Carol Smith  \nThis story is from 'Stories for Children, Book 7' used in the SIL MLE Curriculum in Cameroon.  \nImages by MBANJI Bawe Ernest, and Jedidja van Oene, © 2019  \nSIL Cameroon.  \nEnglish  \nUnited Kingdom  \nCopyright © 2019, SIL Cameroon  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)[ ](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)[You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may](You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may)[ ](You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may)adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nImages on pages Front Cover, 1–3, 5 by MBANJI Bawe Ernest, © 2019 SIL Cameroon. CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0.  \nImage on page 4 by Jedidja van Oene, © 2019 SIL Cameroon. CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0.  \nThe King Who Wanted to Touch the Moon  \nOnce there was a king who wanted to touch the moon . He thought about it all day. He thought about it in bed at night. When he fell asleep he dreamt about it. He could not think about anything else .  \nOne day he sent for his chief Carpenter and said: “Build me a tower that will reach up to the sky. I want to touch the  \n”  \nmoon .  \nThe carpenter knew that he could not build a tower as high as that, but he was afraid to tell the King. He began to collect and cut wood.  \nAfter four weeks the king sent for him again and said: “Build my tower in three days or I will chop off your head.”  \nThe carpenter was very frightened. He sat and wondered what he could do .  \nThen he went back to the king and said:“Please, can I have all the wooden boxes in the land?”  \nSo the king told everyone to bring wooden boxes .  \nThe carpenter and his workmen built a high tower with them .  \nThe king came to see it and said: “It is not high enough.”  \nSo the carpenter got his men to cut down all the trees in the land.  \nThey made big planks of wood and put them on top of the tower .  \nThe King came to see it again . He began to climb up. He climbed to the very top and he tried to touch the moon .  \nThe tower still wasn’t high enough. The King shouted to the carpenter:  \n“Take the bottom box out. Bring it up here and put it on top. Then the tower will be high enough.”  \nThe carpenter said: “The bottom box your majesty?”  \nHe knew that the tower would fall down if he pulled out the bottom box . The King said: “Yes, the bottom box .”  \nThe Carpenter had to do what the King told him . So he pulled out the bottom box, and the whole tower fell down with a great crash, and the King fell down too .  \nSo he never touched the moon after all.","cbCaiv1BmwGrZWzD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiv1BmwGrZWzD","pdf",352519,14,"English","en",105,"# The King’s Impossible Dream\n## Building the Tower\n## Collapse and Aftermath","[{\"question\":\"Why does the king want to touch the moon?\",\"answer\":\"He becomes obsessed with the idea and thinks about it all day and night.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the carpenter try to satisfy the king’s demand?\",\"answer\":\"He builds a tower first, then keeps adding more height by using wood, planks, and stacked boxes.\"},{\"question\":\"What happens when the carpenter removes the bottom box?\",\"answer\":\"The tower collapses with a great crash, and the king falls down as well.\"}]",1784315189,22,{"code":4,"msg":29,"data":30},"ok",{"site_id":23,"language":22,"slug":31,"title":13,"keywords":32,"description":14,"schema_data":33,"social_meta":85,"head_meta":87,"extra_data":89,"updated_unix":26},"the-king-who-wanted-to-touch-the-moon-traditional-english-story","",{"@graph":34,"@context":84},[35,52,67],{"@type":36,"itemListElement":37},"BreadcrumbList",[38,42,46,49],{"item":39,"name":40,"@type":41,"position":11},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":43,"name":44,"@type":41,"position":45},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":47,"name":12,"@type":41,"position":48},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/story-novel/",3,{"item":50,"name":13,"@type":41,"position":51},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/the-king-who-wanted-to-touch-the-moon-traditional-english-story/92312/",4,{"url":50,"name":13,"@type":53,"author":54,"headline":13,"publisher":56,"fileFormat":59,"inLanguage":22,"description":14,"dateModified":60,"datePublished":61,"encodingFormat":59,"isAccessibleForFree":62,"interactionStatistic":63},"DigitalDocument",{"name":9,"@type":55},"Person",{"url":39,"name":57,"@type":58},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-07-22","2026-07-17",true,{"@type":64,"interactionType":65,"userInteractionCount":11},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":66},"ViewAction",{"@type":68,"mainEntity":69},"FAQPage",[70,76,80],{"name":71,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":73},"Why does the king want to touch the moon?","Question",{"text":74,"@type":75},"He becomes obsessed with the idea and thinks about it all day and night.","Answer",{"name":77,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":78},"How does the carpenter try to satisfy the king’s demand?",{"text":79,"@type":75},"He builds a tower first, then keeps adding more height by using wood, planks, and stacked boxes.",{"name":81,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":82},"What happens when the carpenter removes the bottom box?",{"text":83,"@type":75},"The tower collapses with a great crash, and the king falls down as well.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":50,"og:type":86,"og:title":13,"og:site_name":57,"og:description":14},"article",{"robots":88,"canonical":50},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":23},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":91},[92,95,99,103,108,113,118,123,128,131,135],{"id":11,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":12,"show_sort_weight":93,"slug":94},90,"story-novel",{"id":45,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":96,"show_sort_weight":97,"slug":98},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":51,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":100,"show_sort_weight":101,"slug":102},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":104,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":105,"show_sort_weight":106,"slug":107},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":109,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":110,"show_sort_weight":111,"slug":112},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":114,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":115,"show_sort_weight":116,"slug":117},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":119,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":120,"show_sort_weight":121,"slug":122},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":124,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":125,"show_sort_weight":126,"slug":127},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":126,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":129,"show_sort_weight":126,"slug":130},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":132,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":133,"show_sort_weight":132,"slug":134},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":136,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":137,"show_sort_weight":104,"slug":138},19,"General","general"]