It’s harvest season for the Story Pirates and Lee plans a huge feast. Featuring two new stories: “I Never Knew Tacos Were So Good,” a story about one dog’s relentless pursuit to make her best bunny friend try a new food, written by Annabelle, a 10 year old from Florida, and “Goats To Go,” a story about a peculiar business that specializes in goaten wanderlust, written by a 10 year old from Massachusetts named Charlie.
Scroll down for the original stories behind the episode!
Illustration by Camila Franklin
Original Stories
I Never Knew Tacos Were So Good!
by Annabelle, age 10, Florida
I Never Knew Tacos Were So Good
Remy: “Here, try a taco Fifi.”
Fifi: “Oh no!”
Remy: “Why not? Just try one, I know you’ll like it.”
Fifi: “NO way Jose, I am not going to touch that thing!”
Remy: “Come on Fifi, you’ll love it. I promise. Please Fifi, try it!”
Fifi: “ Nope, not one lick!”
Remy: “Come on Feebers *, just one. Please?”
Fifi: “I’ve already said no Remy, now stop trying.”
Remy: “ I will NOT give up trying to get you to eat this taco! Besides, it’s all beef!
Fifi: “Yuck, Remy!”
Remy: “Please Feefers!”
Fifi: “No Remy, quit it!”
Remy: “Fifi, please, please, please, I depend on you eating this taco!”
Fifi: “Oh, all right Remy. Fine, I’ll try it.”
Munch, crunch, munch!
Fifi: “WOW! I love this! Remy I can’t believe that I never tried this.”
Remy: “I know, right? Aren’t they amazing?”
Fifi: “I NEVER KNEW TACOS WERE SO GOOD!!!!”
Remy and Fifi together: “Remember, to always try new things!”
*Fifi is a bunny with lots of nicknames
btw, Remy is a dog.
Goats To Go
by Charlie, age 10, Massachusetts
Story Spark
Annabelle, who wrote “I Never Knew Tacos Were So Good!" is presenting this week's Story Spark!
Write us a story about talking trees. Tell us what the trees say to each other, and what they wish the humans would understand. Why do they feel so misunderstood? And what if one day, a child could understand them, even if the other grown-ups couldn’t?
Roll Call Stories
The Case of the Invisible People
by Dixie, age 9, Iowa
One day detective Shep was walking to work and then he bumped into something, but he couldn't see what he bumped into. So he continued walking to work, and then he heard a voice and he looked around, but he saw nothing! Then he said "Doctor Dixie must be up to something!" Then he started heading to her laboratory, when he got there he heard her CACKLING! Then he said "what are you up to?!?!" she replied "turning people... INVISIBLE!! muhahahah!!!" Detective Shep said "STOP IT! or ELSE!!" She said...... "NOOOOO!!!!" Detective Shep attempted to use his special Ninja power, but she pulled a LEVER and glue came out of a monstrous tube, and covered him from head to toe. He was stuck!!! THEN Detective Shep summoned an enchanted drooling cow named Johanna. The cow licked away the glue, and freed Detective Shep! He promptly handcuffed Doctor Dixie, before leaving her laboratory he found the lever labeled "uninvisible" and returned everyone to normal. Doctor Dixie spent the first of many nights in JAIL! The End
The Poem of Poems
by Diya, age 8, California
Poems can be all shapes and sizes. Colors and textures. A poem can go up or down. Left or right. It can make you feel sad, or it can make you feel glad. A poem can melt your heart, like ice cream, or make it rage like fire. It can express your feelings in a whole new way. It can cause friendships to happen. It can make you realize things. Poems are like smiles in a bottle. They make you feel good inside.
The Endless Rope
by Finn, age 6, Minnesota
Once upon a time there was a family called the Graves and they see this map in a bottle that came from a pirate shipwreck. They were taking a cruise on a cruise ship and they saw this mysterious bottle that was above where the shipwreck was in the water. They pulled it out with a rope, and then they took the cork off the bottle, and then they looked at the treasure map. And then, the cruise ship got where it was gonna go. They started to look for the treasure chest that held the endless rope.
On their journey they had to fight a group of lightning zombies. When the zombies put up their arms lightning would shoot out. The only way to protect themselves were shields they made from magical wood in the nearby forest.
They went on the treasure hunt and came to a whirlpool. They built an airplane to cross it using the magic wood from their shields.
They flew around and then they found the treasure on the other side. They threw the rope up through the clouds and it stretched up up up up up up up up up up until it hooked around something in the sky.
Then they started to climb up the rope. It took two years to get to the top. At the top of the rope they saw it connected to Jupiter.
Someone was on Jupiter and it was MORE LIGHTNING ZOMBIES!
So, they cut the rope and fell down down down down down.
They landed on a trampoline and bounced back up up up up up up up up and then they fell down down down down down onto a crash pad that was left behind from an old abandoned gymnastics place.
Then they took apart their plane and turned it into a car to drive back to the cruise ship. Once they got there they found the cruise ship in another whirlpool so they turned around. The whirlpool pulled them in anyway. The ship was safe.
When they went back home they took their magic wood car and put it back in their new place.
On their way into the garage the car fell into a big hole so they had to turn it back into an airplane.
They flew back out .
They landed the plane.
They turned it back into a car.
And they went home.
