Rolo is (almost) driven to madness by a spot. Featuring two new stories: “A Barking Election,” a rousing song about an inspiring mayoral candidate (Erika Henningson) who runs against an incumbent pooch, written by Brody, a 10 year old from California, and “The Always Lost Werewolf,” about a pun-loving lycanthrope who just wants to get where he’s going, written by Petra, age 7, and Vaughn, age 5, from New York.
Scroll down for the original stories behind the episode!
Illustration by Camila Franklin
Original Stories
A Barking Election
by Brody, age 10, California
It was a beautiful day in Hitsville and Mrs. Parker was thinking about the mayor. She did not like the current mayor because he was a stray dog. That's right. Mayor Rufus was a dog! She thought it was wrong. She wanted to run for mayor. The election was next week. She had enough time to think of a speech and campaign.
The next day she went to the park. “Hey everyone,” said Mrs. Parker. Just then Mayor Rufus walked by. “Ruff ruff,” barked Rufus. “I just wanted to say… vote for me for mayor! I am the right candidate for the job — not some dog,” said Mrs. Parker.
She spent the next few days preparing her speech. Then, it was time to vote, and the two candidates made their speeches. “Hey everyone. Today, I’m telling you why I would be the best mayor. I would put more stores in Hitsville. I would make the city safe. And, I would make Hitsville a better place. So vote for me for mayor.” Next up was Rufus. “Ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff.” That was Rufus’s speech. Next, everyone submitted their votes. They counted the votes and Mrs. Parker won! Rufus was sad, but then, Mrs. Parker adopted him. They lived happily ever after in the mayor’s mansion.
The Always Lost Werewolf
by Petra, age 7, and Vaughn, age 5, New York
There is a werewolf named Stanley who is always lost because he’s a “where?” wolf, get it? He was trying to find a baseball game his friends told him about, but what he didn’t know was that it was actually a surprise birthday party for him. Because he was always lost, he was always hungry because he could never even find his own house. He was looking for the baseball field, just wandering through the forrest when he met a bee selling watermelon. He bought a slice but the bee couldn’t help him find the field. Then he met a deer selling pizza. He bought a piece of pizza but the deer didn’t know where the field was either. Then he met a skunk selling avocado toast, which he bought, but the skunk couldn’t tell him where the field was. Finally, he found the field and all his friends jumped out and yelled “surprise!”. Then they gave him his cake, which he was excited to eat, until they told him it was a watermelon-pizza-avocado toast cake, and he was too full of all of those things to want to eat it. Then they blindfolded him to do his piñata, and he wandered off and - you guessed it - got lost again and missed the rest of his party.
Story Spark
Brody, who wrote “A Barking Election" is presenting this week's Story Spark!
Write us a story about an animal that gets sucked into a video game. Tell us what kind of video game it is, and what happens to the animal when they get trapped inside. Most of all, tell us if they ever get out, and how.
Roll Call Stories
When The Punching Bag Fights Back
by Mila, age 8, Wisconsin
Once there was a guy named Dr. Mcfuzzy and he loved to exercise, his favorite way to exercise was to punch his punching bag. But one day while he was punching his punching bag he heard a strange, deep voice that said when the punching bag fights back. He jumped and screamed WHO SAID THAT and the voice said I did. Then Dr. Mcfuzzy saw that his punching bag had grown a face, and that the voice was also coming from the punching bag!!! Before he could say a word the punching bag started punching Dr. Mcfuzzy!! Dr. McFuzzy tried running away but the punching bag was punching too hard so he couldn’t. And in the end the punching bag went crazy and destroyed some of Pluto. And that’s why Pluto is no longer considered big enough to be a planet (it’s a dwarf planet though). The end
Kids Deserve Mail!
by Ebba, age 10, Kentucky
The Noos Reporter and Her Noos
by Lilah, age 7, Texas
Ahhh what an amazing day. Tooday I will wok to the noos stashin. Hmmm wie is there tentacols on mie char? I do not reemember that was there yesterday. I wander if it is an upgrad?
And then the tentacals vanisht and then. THE OCTAPUS LEVATATID!!! And hugd her! It was her old BFF.
The End
Burgers or Burritos: Tis the Question
by Titus, age 12, Colorado
Once upon a time, long, long ago, when kids rode to school on dinosaurs, and listened to music on cassette tapes, there were two food stands, right next to each other. One sold Burgers, the other, Burritos. All day they would stand there with their stubbly chins, and greasy hands selling Burgers and Burritos. Now, these where two very competitive men, so they fought constantly over who sold the better food. “Everybody likes Burritos more than Burgers!” One would claim. “Bah! You’re just jealous of all my business. Why, just yesterday I sold over 100 Burgers!” The other would counter. They could go on for hours bickering pointlessly, and the only time they stopped was to count their money. Well, the customers did not like this arguing because they had to wait hours just for their food to be ready, so soon less and less people came to their stalls. But the men didn’t care they just kept arguing and throwing food and getting poorer and poorer. Their food fights usually ended in them walking home looking very patriotic {Although they usually had to sleep with a spotlight pointed on them}. This went on for a while until a hotdog cart came by. Then, the men quit their senseless arguing and had a hotdog. They were both so enchanted by the flavor that they called a truce and opened a hotdog stand together, and far and wide, their hotdogs where considered the best out there, and they never argued again. The end
