Illustration by Camilla Franklin
A holographic motivational speaker (Kristen Bell) encourages the Story Pirates to the extreme. Featuring two new stories: “Rosie the Rose,” a synth-pop tune about a flying rose who finds a new home, written by Avery, a 6-year-old from California, and “The Soup,” a story about a family of chefs who must compete in the kitchen against a scheming foe, written by an 8-year-old from Maryland named Elijah.
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Rosie the Rose
by Avery, age 6, California
One day long, there was a rose named Rosie. Rosie had magical powers to fly. But only in the nighttime. Rosie used to get food from plants in the night to eat with her special big mouth petal. But then she found out that there were more special magical things to eat in the morning, so she tried to fly in the morning instead. But then people started to see her. People said “What the heck is that rose doing?” and they started telling everyone they knew “Hey, there’s a special magical rose in the sky!” Rosie felt weird. She thought “What are those people doing looking at me?”
She flew down to a little girl and her baby brother sipping chocolate milk while vegetable shopping. Rosie said “Why are you looking at me?”
The little girl said “Because I never saw a rose flying in the sky and I wanted to know what it looks like.”
The little girl told her parents about Rosie, but they didn’t believe her.
A couple of days later, she told her parents again, but this time they did believe her.
The little girl asked her parents to give Rosie a house. They said yes.
The girl told Rosie that she had a house. Rosie was happy and said “Thank you.”
The girl gave Rosie some seeds. So Rosie planted the seeds. And then Rosie was the flower seller in the house.
The end.
Our adaptation of “Rosie the Rose” was written by Jeanna Phillips and produced by Brendan O’Grady with vocal arrangements and direction by Jack Mitchell.
The Soup
by Elijah, age 8, Maryland
One morning a family with the best chefs in all of America sat at their round table. They were so popular that people from all over the world came to their little house to taste their yummy food. They had yummy soups, yummy noodles, yummy everything.
One day a stranger came who challenged the chefs to a duel. The stranger chef said, “You have until night to decide what you're gonna make.”
The family didn't know what they were going to make so they decided to put each of their favorite dishes together.
And that night the man came. He brought a judge with him. Just before 8 o’clock, just before this duel the man who challenged the family warned the judge, “No matter what you must choose my side.”
But when the judge tasted the yummy food of the family compared to the bad food of the stranger he decided to choose the family.
The End.
