Illustration by Camilla Franklin
A visitor from the future (Bobby Moynihan) implores the Story Pirates to help him save the universe. Featuring two new stories: “Good Cups,” a rap about all the different kinds of incredible cups you can drink out of, written by Timothy, an 8-year-old from Florida, and “The Dog That Thought the Sunset Was a Ball,” the story of a canine who will travel any distance for a game of fetch, written by a 6-year-old from Hawaii named Sheldon.
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The Dog That Thought the Sunset was a Ball
by Sheldon, kindergarten, Hawaii
Once upon a time there was a dog that thought the sunset was a ball. He went to a spaceship and he went to outer space and then he went to the sun and the sun had storms and the storms on the sun were on fire and the dog wanted to go back to earth because he was frightened. And then he went back to his fence and then he got locked up in jail because he was not supposed to go into the spaceship. The end. Inspiration: I saw Harry (our dog) looking at the sunset when the sun was going down late at night when I had my pajamas on after I brushed teeth and flossed. And I thought he was just pretending he was a person but he was just thinking the sunset was a ball and he even thought it was so cloudy because it was so cloudy so he gave me that idea to make the story. Thank you story pirates, I love you, good night
Good Cups
by Timothy, age 8, Florida
all those cups, cups, cups cups like blue cups, fast cups, Big cups, Twin cups, Time cups, yoga cups, pogo cups, Disco cups, swag cups, small cups, sleepy cups, fire cups...we are cups, cups cups, we are cups, cups, cups we are all good cups: THE END
Our adaptation of “Good Cups” was written by Alexis Simpson and produced by Eric Gersen
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