The Story Pirates meet a Wishing Wizard (Hannah Solow), resulting in a classic three wishes situation. Featuring two new stories: “How to Make Grilled Peaches,” a story about the wildest and weirdest recipe you’ve ever heard, written by Hanna, a 9 year old from New York, and “Peanut Butter Smoothies,” a story about a puppy who craves one delicious beverage over any other, written by a 9 year old from Vermont named Matilda.
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Illustration by Camila Franklin
Peanut Butter Smothies
by Matilda, age 9, Vermont
(note: the story has a Puppy, but Matilda doesn’t know what the name of the Puppy is yet. So Puppy is the placeholder)
Doggles is a fast food restaurant for dogs. However, in this universe, dogs can drive (dogs take the place of humans).
Two huskies – Puppy and Dad – are at the drive through. (Mom is at a conference in San Fran-barkso).
The speaker clicks on: “Welcome to Doggles, what would you like?”
“Uuuu mmmmmmm,” says Dad.
“a kibble burger, and a peanut butter smoothie!” says Puppy.
“I’m the Dad – I order what I want you to get!”
“Oh, come on!”
“Can this little one please have a treat meal with um one small kibble burger and a ummm..”
“Nothing else?” says the speaker.
“And a bag of small treats.”
“Is that all? Anything for you?”
“Oh yes of course… I will take a salmon burger with a cup of peanut butter flavored water.” (he’s a dog – don’t mind the peanut butter flavored water)
“Coming right up!”
“Dad! I wanted a peanut butter smoothie!”
“Oh sorry, honey um…someone else needs to order, we need to go down to the next window.”
“Here’s your food!”
“Thank you here’s the money. Come on honey we need to get home.”
“Ok Daddy but next time can you get me the peanut butter smoothie?”
“We’ll see.”
“Ok Daddy.”
Later at their house after the finished their food….
“Honey, get in the car I am bringing you somewhere.”
“Where Daddy where?”
“It’s a surprise, come on.”
They are in the car for half an hour when… she says, “ On the way home from this, can you get me a peanut butter smoothie?”
Then she sees it. “Oh. My. GOD.” There is a big building with pillars at least as tall as two of their house put together in all different colors in rainbow order. (we know dogs are kind of sort of color blind, but we’re not sure how to deal with this particular scenario).
Puppy says, “Daddy, is this our stop?”
“Yes, honey.”
“What’s in there? What’s in there?”
“It’s a surprise of course.”
As they walk inside, she sees something almost magical. It looked like a playground, but it wasn’t exactly a playground.
So she gets on the big rainbow playground-looking thing, and then it exteeends up and stops abruptly at a cloud. She is still young, so she doesn't know that you can fall right through a cloud, so she starts to walk onto the cloud, and it is completely solid!!! So she sees this big table and tries to climb on it, but it extends, extends, extends exteeends! Once the table is extended, big, large stairs pop up to the top of the table. So she walks up the stairs that appear, and there is a big table of peanut butter smoothies!!!
And then her Dad came up and said, “Drink all you want.”
The Puppy says, “Wait, don’t say it, don’t say it!”
And then he screams: “The end.”
How to Make Grilled Peaches
by Hannah, age 9. New York
The first step to making grilled peaches is to take all the cushions off your couch. Next, you need to pull out the vampire grill. But obviously the vampire grill only works at night. So, if you want grilled peaches during the day, you need to do this.
First grill the peaches at night. Then, when they are ready put them in a container. After this, you are going to need to heat them back up. So, what you are going to need to do is 1) put your container full of grill peaches in the middle of your living room, 2) draw a demon circle around it, 3) you need to make sure the demon doesn't attack you so you need to use your sweater to cover your head and then rub flowers all over you so demon can't smell you. 4) ok, now you have warmed up the peaches. But in the process you burned your whole living room.
So, you need to go to the demon avoidance store. But you need to get demon dollars to spend. To get demon dollars, get an ordinary penny and rub it on your butt. Now, you need to get two flowers and poke holes in them to turn them into goggles. Then look at a candy store, it will turn into a demon avoidance store.
At the demon avoidance store, they need to know that the penny you turned into demon dollar is really a demon dollar, so you need to rub it on our butt again. Then go to the "Kioscooooba" (audio attached) and put your butt penny inside the Kioscooooa and exchange it for a demon dollar.
Now go to the living room replenishing aisle and get the living room replenishing spray but make sure it is the living room replenishing aisle, not the hall way replenishing aisle or the bathroom replenishing aisle. Go to the check out and pay using your demon dollar. Go home and spray it all over your living room. Lastly, congratulations, you have got your grilled peaches.
Roll Call Stories
Turtle Court: Please Remove the Automobile
by Cooper, age 10, Tennessee
Superhero Family and Doors
by Emi, age 8, Nebraska
There once was a family who didn't like doors. But the family were actually superheros. Their arch nemesis turned out to be... doors! Here is a story of a family of superheros. As you all know, the family didn't like doors. One day, the doors came to life! And the family had to fight the doors. The doors were trying to take over the earth. The doors had the ability to stop people from closing any door. The superhero family had to go around and close every door. But the doors kept opening and opening. But the family, through all their might, managed to get every door closed. But it turned out that all the doors really wanted were marshmallows. So the family gave every door a marshmallow and sent them home, called Dooruplandia. And the doors shared their marshmallows with everyone! The Marshmallow (The End).
The Blanket That Couldn’t Be Warm
by Elijah, age 7, Washington
It was a cold winter night and Fiddly wanted his favorite blanket, but he couldn't find it anywhere. He searched all over his room and found it under his bunk bed. His sister must have put it there. Fiddly takes his blanket into the living room and relaxes with it on the couch and it randomly starts to get colder. Confused, Fiddly calls for his dad to come check it out. His dad takes a look at the blanket and wraps it around himself. He instantly turns to ice. Fiddly runs to his mom and tells her that dad is frozen. His mom laughs, thinking that Fiddly must be joking, but follows him anyway. When they get to the living room, it's snowing! Fiddly's mom rushes over to dad and yanks the blanket off of him. Immediately, Fiddly’s dad unfreezes and is very confused. Wind starts to blow through the house and the snow is getting thicker. The blanket pulls itself from Fiddly's mom's hands and starts to speak. It explains that people have been unkind to it, so it has grown cold. Fiddly gets the idea to say nice words to the blanket to help it warm up. He tells the blanket that it's his favorite and the best blanket ever. He asks the blanket if it could be warm again. The blanket didn't realize that it was Fiddly's favorite. The snow and the wind went away and there was no sign that there was ever snow there to begin with. Fiddly is still cold and wraps himself in the blanket and it is so warm and cozy. He's happy that he could make his blanket feel like itself again. Fiddly says “The End.”
