The Mythical Hotdog Tradition/The Origin of the Mythical Hotdog Tradition

Eric discovers a magic pen that brings his ideas to life. Featuring two new stories: “The Mythical Hotdog Tradition,” about one hot dog’s journey up Mt. Frankfurter to discover his personal condiment, and a prequel to that story, “The Origin of the Mythical Hotdog,” about how the Mythical Hotdog came to be in the first place, both written by an 11 year old from Pennsylvania named Keenan. 

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Illustration by Camila Franklin

The Mythical Hot Dog Tradition

by Keenan, age 11. Pennsylvania

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The Origin of the Mythical Hot Dog Tradition

by Keenan, age 11. Pennsylvania

Roll Call Stories

The Day It Rained Forever

by Thatcher, age 11, Georgia

“Just another day. Gonna eat my breakfast. Yummmmmmmmm. Gotta…MOM!”

“What is it honey?” “It's raining.” “so?” “Really hard might I add.” “Grace, a little rain doesn't hurt anybody.” “What about people who are allergic to water?” “GRACE!” “What? I'm just sayin.” “Just go and get dressed out of those pj’s.”Ten minutes later. “I'm finally dressed.” “Wait a second, WATER IS DRIPPING FROM MY CEILING. DAD!” “What is Grace?” “water is dripping from my ceiling.” “Oh my. Just put a bucket where it is drippin.” 9 days later, “Oh my goodness! It has been raining for 9 days straight.” “Huh.” Grace's dad said. “Wait a second. Grace said, "Is that 400 alien spaceships dumping water…”

The Dog’s Revenge

by Emmett, age 8, Illinois

Once upon a time there was a Griddysaurus named Jeff. In case you don’t know, a Griddysaurus is a cross between a Brontosaurus and a T-rex and griddys everywhere.

Jeff loved dogs and cats. Every day he met the dogs and said, “Hello little doggies.” The dogs ran from him. He walked up to the cats and said, “Hello little kitties.” The cats always purred when they saw him.

One day he could not find the kitties and he figured out that they had been kidnapped by an excessively big dog named Gas Giant*. Jeff and Gas Giant had a big fight and guess who won? If you guessed Jeff, then YOU’RE RIGHT. He did it by popping him with the griddy and he deflated into a Weiner dog. Anyway, they freed all the cats, and the dogs were nicer to Jeff, and they lived happily ever after.

THE END

*He farts a lot

The Day of the Dinosaur Pears

by Nina, age 7, New York

Once upon a time, there was a shark. (It did not like pears.)

There is also a pear tree in this story.

"Wait, there cannot be a pear tree in this story," the shark said. "Narrator, please."

"Fine," said the narrator.

The pear tree said: "Hi guy!"

"Ugh, fine," the shark said. "Anyway, I'm not a guy- I'm a dinosaur."

"No you're not," said the pear tree. "All dinosaurs are pears."

"What?" said the shark.

"Ah, yes," said the pear tree. "You see, once the dinosaurs roamed the earth. And then, a giant pear smashed the earth, turning all dinosaurs into pears. Since then, no one has ever seen dinosaurs-- only pears."

"Oh," said the shark. "Well, let's go find the pears!"

"Wait!" said the pear tree. "Our aunt pear told us all this."

"Too late," said the shark.

The end!

Attack of the Paper Maché!/What Happened to Our Sunscreen? (feat. Cat Cohen)

Superstar pop idol Skyler Twist (Catherine Cohen) brings her world famous Auras Tour to the Story Pirates ship. Featuring two new stories: “Attack of the Paper Maché!”, about a school chemistry experiment gone wrong, written by Julian, a 9 year old from California, and “What Happened to Our Sunscreen?”, a story about a mischievous wizard with a mysterious new product called Moonscreen, written by twins from Ontario named Lena and Harriet. 

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Illustration by Camila Franklin

Attack of the Paper Maché!

by Julian, age 9, California

One time there was a kid named Maisie. She had to make a paper Mache volcano for the science fair at her school. She completed the volcano and brought it to the science fair. When she was putting the baking soda and vinegar in, she accidentally used monster baking soda. The monster baking soda turned the volcano into an evil volcano and it tried to erupt whatever it is that paper Mache volcanoes erupt in peoples face. Everyone tried to stop the volcano but with no luck. The volcano chased everyone out of the school. Then it made all of the other paper Mache projects evil too. Then Maisie had an idea. She ran home and got normal baking soda because she accidentally grabbed monster Baking soda. Then she ran to the school and tried to put the normal baking soda into the volcano, but the other paper Mache projects were protecting him like he was their king. So maisie threw the baking soda and it went into the volcano and the volcano exploded. Then the other paper Mache projects turned normal. The end.

What Happened to Our Sunscreen? The Story of Moonscreen

by Lena and Harriet, age 7, Canada

What happened to our sunscreen.

The story of moonscreen.

By Harriet and Lena (twins aged 7)

It was a hot and sticky day at the beach. The Rooney family was about to dig into their lunch. The Dad’s name was Rune, the mum was Rin and the kid’s name was Rose. Just as Rose was about to put sunscreen on, a seagull came by and swooped in and took the sunscreen. The seagull thought it was a wrap for lunch. Rose said “oh no! That’s my sunscreen!”

The seagull went back to his den. Once he got there, he noticed that it was sunscreen and not a delicious wrap. He went [spitting/farting sound]. He got mad and decided to play a trick. Then he got ready to fly back when he turned into a magician. And then, he turned the sunscreen into moonscreen. It looked like jello. He flew back as a seagull and gave it back to the Rooneys.

Rose said “Oh finally we have our sunscreen back”. When she opened it she said it looked like jello. Then she looked on the bottle and it said moonscreen and she said “Ahhh!”. Then the seagull turned into a magician once more. He said, “Put that on. It’s getting late in the day and you need to protect yourself from the moon and it’s totally normal. And anyways, it’s going to be a full moon tonight”.

So Rose put it on. Rin and Rune also put it on their whole bodies. But then, their butts started wiggling and they couldn’t stop. They all said “stop doing that, why are you doing that??” They could still walk. Rose said “what the?! It was cursed and he tricked us.” The mum and dad were so scared that they had to run to find something to do with their wiggling butts. They saw a hula hoop competition and they went and they won but there was no prize. Then they saw a dance competition for teams of 3 people. And they danced and danced and danced till they were done and they were so tired. But guess what? They won! And guess what the prize was? Sunscreen! They put on the sunscreen and their butts stopped wiggling. The End.

Roll Call Stories

The Worlds Biggest Baguette

by Rex, age 7, Massachusetts

Once I was sleeping in my bed and it was early morning, and I heard a big thunk. I opened my door and I saw a giant baguette covering my street. Then I called the police and they could not get the baguette out of its spot. The end???

The Trees With Growing Pains

by Pearl and Olivine, age 10, Tennessee

One day a forest of trees told each other that they were always cramping. They needed to call the doctor, so they did! One tree called the doctor and said, “hi, my name is Banana Pants and me and a forest have been cramping a lot, like since forever!” The doctor’s name was Joey- Jon. “Ok, I’ll be there at 18:00,” he said. It was 2:00 there. 48 hours later, the doctor arrived and he was a fox, he digged their roots our of the ground. One tree said, “I feel a lot better now.” So they ran a 5K.

They wanted to live somewhere now that they could walk. So, they asked the doctor, Joey-Jon, where to live. He said, “ask Garlic the hedgehog, she’s a real estate agent.” She showed them three houses. One was a sweater shop and the owner’s name was Cheez-It, the squirrel. They said, “no.” The next house was a pumpkin patch, the owner’s name was Book, the snake. They all said, “no.” The next house was a roller skating rink and the owner’s name was Ross the Cat. She was very nice. They all said “yes” to that one. They roller skated all day and night and lived happily ever after. The End

The Mooze

by Ryan, age 5, California

Once upon a sink, there was a bottle of milk that got left in the sink. Three Thursdays later, when the weather was super hot, the milk turned into an ooze. Or a Milk-ooze. Really, it was more of a Mooze.

The Mooze crawled out of the sink, and headed for the pantry. It made all the food in the pantry go bad. Really, really, bad. Better call the Cow Police bad.

When the Cow Captain arrived, it was too late. All the bad food had destroyed the house, and was on the moo-ve into the nearby town.

The mooze had snuck onto the shoe of the boy who lived in the house, and on his walk to school, it decided to escape into the open world.

There was CHAOS happening as The Mooze made popcorn kernels explode, and the roofs of houses went flying into the air. Before The Mooze could take over the whole world, it would have cross the ocean.

In order to stop it before it reached the ocean, everyone summoned the rain, yelling “RAIN FALL, RAIN FALL!” While doing THE rain dance. Until it did.

The Mooze was diluted, and melted into a mooze blob that sank into the ocean floor after it was washed into the sea by a big whirlpool that went all the way down to the bottom of the deepest, darkest trench. (The Mariana Trench)

The Mooze was never heard from again. The humans cheered and cheered until the water drained out, evaporated, and the ooze was officially gone.

The End.

Too Much Whipped Cream/The Talking Towel

Rolo and Baby with a Mustache compete in the 34th annual Story Pirates Mustache Competition. Featuring two new stories: “Too Much Whipped Cream,” a song about what happens when one family goes overboard with their favorite dairy topping, written by Jesse, a 6 year old from Texas, and “The Talking Towel,” a story about how hard it is to keep secrets, written by an 11 year old from Germany named Anna.

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Illustration by Camila Franklin

Too Much Whipped Cream

by Jesse, age 6, Texas

It all started with a brownie. "Mmmm chocolaty yummy goodness. It would be even better with Whipped cream!" *Shhhhhhh* "Maybe some more" *Shhhhh* "Just a little more" *Shhhhh* Until..... "TOO. MUCH. WHIPPED. CREAM!"

The Tower of Whipped Cream rose into the sky and through the clouds. *SPLAT* An airplane flew through the Whipped Cream cloud!

And then it rains, and washes all the Whipped Cream away. The End.

The Talking Towel

by Anna, age 11, Germany

Ah, what a perfect day to go to the beach!, says Reed. Just need to grab my swimsuit and towel. He arrives at the beach, “Ok, I just need to lay my towel down now”. Suddenly he hears “cough, cough, so much sand!” coming from the towel. “Did you just talk, towel!?”, exclaims Reed. “Uh, maybe” says the towel. “You talked, I heard you!” says Reed. The towel concedes “Fine, you caught me, you canNOT tell anyone that I can talk!”. “This must be a secret between us”. Reed admits, “I am super bad at keeping secrets”. Suddenly, the boy yells out “Hey everyone, my towel can talk!”. Then many random strangers comment “OMG, this towel can talk. Wow, that is so cool”.
The towel then says, “Oh no, we need to do something, no one is supposed to know I can talk!”. So Reed says “Oh, I know, so that no one else knows about it, we can…put the people in my closet at home!”. The towel says “They will probably just escape”, and Reed says: “True, maybe we can send them on a fancy tropical vacation! They will never want to leave.” Then towel says “How much money do you have?”. Reed empties his pockets, “hmm, I have a button, lint, and two quarters, let’s go to the airport and buy sixteen tickets for the people who know you can talk”.
At the airport, the lady at the counter says: “With a button, lint, and two quarters you can get a small airplane sticker. A plane ticket to a tropical vacation costs 2,500 dollars EACH!” Reed then says “That is so expensive! We need more ideas on what to do, let’s go to the beach and come up with new ideas, I have better ideas when relaxed”. So he and towel went back to the beach.
As they walk to their beach chair, a man walks by with something in his hand. Reeds asks “Excuse me sir, what are you carrying there?”. The man replies, “This is a memory eraser, it makes people forget all memories from the last day”. So Reed says, “Can we by any chance borrow that for a button, some lint, and two quarters?”. “That is a super deal”, says the man, so they agree to the deal and the man gives the memory eraser to Reed, who then begins to erase memories of those who know towel can talk. ZAP, ZAP, ZAP, ZAP, ZAP…until all sixteen people had their memory erased. So then it was just Reed and the towel sitting on their beach chairs, when towel says “only one more person to zap”. “Who?”, says Reed. Then towel grabs the memory eraser and ZAPs Reed, “You” the towel quickly says.
THE END

Roll Call Stories

The Chicken Which Had a Phone

by Emma, age 8, Poland

Ha ha! I am a chicken and I am evil! And I will take over all the chicken coops! boo! aaa! who are you? I am hero chicken which has a phone! why do you have a phone? I have no idea. ok now I will take over this chicken coop! boom! oh no! he’s gone! now I will text someone for help. tap,tap,tap send ok done. a hundred whooshes ok now I have back up. cluck cluck cluck! we will help you hero chicken which has a phone! but why do you have a phone? I DON’T KNOW! ok? Um ok? let’s go defeat evil chicken! ha ha ha! I already took over twelve chicken coops! now only a million to go! zoom! we will defeat you evil chicken! boom! karate move! hi-yah! ow! I can never be defeated! you can with my phone! how? you don’t even know what it’s for! It holds my super duper power! boooooooooooooooooooom!!! ah! I am defeated! three cheers for hero chicken which has a phone! hip hip hooray! but… but what? I’m not a chicken! what?! I’m a duck! the end.

The Leaves Ate Me

by Eli, age 8, New York

Once I raked a pile of leaves and jumped in them and it ate me.

Jerry the Jack-o’-Lantern

by Florence, age 10, Canada

Jerry the jack-o-lantern had a very big secret, he wanted to dress as a kid for Halloween! But it was strictly against the Pumpkin Law to do so. One night, he asked his mother if he could wear hair, googly eyes, and a shirt for Halloween. The conversation was not very good.“Mom,” Jerry asked when everyone was out of the room “I want to ask you something. On Halloween can I go trick or treating with humans dressed as a pumpkin?” when his mother heard the news she almost fell off the table they were being carved on. “Are you serious,” she whispered so they couldn’t be heard by humans. “You know it is against the law.” his mother sort of screamed while whispering to him for an hour until the humans arrived. The next day, Jerry was really mad and decided to go trick or treating as a kid no matter what. After the humans left, he put himself on a pole, wore a shirt, wig, pants, and pasted eyeballs into his eye holes. Then, he put the pole on a vacuum cleaner and grabbed a bag for trick or treating and started the vacuum cleaner. Then the vacuum cleaner went everywhere! It went to the left, right, and back. At first people thought this was just a very good Halloween costume, then one of his eyeballs fell out and people screamed. People went everywhere and called the police. Jerry quickly turned off the vacuum cleaner. When he got back home, he expected his mom to shout at him, but instead his mom started laughing uncontrollably. And they laughed for the whole night.

The Hockey Player Who Played the Ukulele/The Pumpkin Patch Mystery

Lee orchestrates a showdown with a mysterious garden thief. Featuring two new stories: “The Hockey Player Who Played the Ukulele,” a story about an athlete who changes professional hockey forever, written by Nolan, a 10 year old from California, and “The Pumpkin Patch Mystery,” a story about a magical and strange land inside of a pumpkin, written by a 10 year old from the Oneida Nation named Nova.

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Illustration by Camila Franklin

The Hockey Player Who Played the Ukulele

by Nolan, age 9, North Carolina

Once upon a time there was a hockey player who played the Ukulele. His name was John and he loved to play the Ukulele.

He showed up at PNC Arena one day and played the Ukulele instead of playing hockey. His teammates were very upset because he was the best hockey player in the world. Then his teammates learned how to play the Ukulele and started playing instead of playing hockey too.

Soon, every hockey player was playing the Ukulele. Then they started using the Ukulele as sticks, even the goalies! Soon everything in the world was made of Ukuleles. The arena, the Eiffel Tower, and even the White House were made of Ukuleles! All of the food was shaped like Ukuleles.

One day, an evil scientist named Bob McMickey Pants Scootlebob with his lab rat Gerry McBoop decided all the people should be made out of Ukuleles. They decided to throw all of the people into the Arctic Ocean.

John found out about their evil plan and gathered all of the hockey players in the world for the ultimate battle. They used Ukuleles as their shields and swords. John used a club made out of two Ukuleles (they were guitar sized). He banged Bob McMickey Pants Scootlebob over the head and then threw him into the ocean.

The people were saved! While Bob was sinking he bubbled the word “the end”. And then John said, “hey that’s my line! The end”

The Pumpkin Patch Mystery

by Nova, age 10, Wisconsin

A girl named Emma lives in Oneida. She woke up one day and she was going to the pumpkin patch with her mom. Her mom was busy talking to someone and Emma saw a really big pumpkin in the woods and when she walked up to it she saw a door on the pumpkin. She got really curious, and she went into it. She fell into it and saw a wonderland. It felt like a dream. She saw all these cool things like going down slides, eating candy like chocolate and nerds clusters. There were pumpkin people coming out of their pumpkin houses. one asked Emma, why did you come to our land. Emma said, I just saw a big door and wanted to go into it and see what was in there. All of a sudden there was a knocking on the door. It was Emma’s mom! Her mom said, “Emma, I was looking for you. What is this???”
Emma said, "now that you're here, you can come in."

Emma said, “I just saw it and decided to go into it. Now you’re in it and you can see it too!!” Mom said we can stay but not for the whole night. Emmas asked one of the pumpkin people what kind of things could they do in Pumpkin Wonderland. He responded with, "you and do anything here, it's a kid's dream."They go on the bouncey house. They went on roller coasters, swam in a pool, went on water slides. It started to get cold.

Then the pumpkin people said it was time to leave. The seasons were changing, and winter was coming. If Emma and her mom stayed they would freeze.
They went back up to the pumpkin patch, picked their pumpkins and went home. Before the went to bed that night, Emma said, "today was a crazy day." Mom said, "I agree with you."

Roll Call Stories

PillowPhone

by Owen, age 4, California

I have a pillow that’s a phone. I can call my friend when my parents are asleep to talk about what our dogs are doing. Hello little doggies.

Caramel Cheese

by Dietrich, age 7, Hawaii

The Strange Storm

by Hannah, age 10, New Jersey

“Hannah, get out of the living room, there's a storm coming! Get your toy from outside, it could get hit by lightning,” Dad screamed as I went outside to get my toy.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” I screamed … as I got hit by lightning.

I grabbed my toy and wobbled back into the house. I fell to the ground and I was out cold ...

“Call 911! She passed out,” my dad screamed as he carried me to my bed.

The next morning, I was in my bed. I had just woken up. I went to the mirror to see what I wanted to wear today. I start thinking about my favorite pop star. “OMG,” I said, “I’m her! I looked just like her! I must have shapeshifted!”

“YOU WHAT?” my sister Emma barged in.

I quickly thought of myself to shapeshift back. I told her about how I could shapeshift as she left, but I told her: Don’t tell anyone! She agreed.

Then, my best friend Parker was knocking on my door.

“Hannah,” Parker called out.

“What?” I replied tiredly.

“How are you? I heard you went to the hospital last night,” Parker said.

“I feel fine,” I said.

Parker had come to visit, and she brought Kaylee and Mia, my other friends. But Kaylee and Mia left at 10:50 because they had to go see Sierra at 11:33.

The next week, Kaylee, Mia and I were at school talking about our new, super-secret superpowers. Kaylee and Mia have telekinesis and I can shapeshift.

“ See you later,” I told Mia and Kaylee as I walked to my next class and they walked to theirs.

Five hours later … “We made it,” I said with a sigh as we walked into the cafeteria.

Mia and Kaylee sat at the table, planning to save me a spot. I got on the lunch line to get a bagel bag and an ice cream bar. In my bagel bag, I found a very weird item: bright blue apples.

I'm thinking of giving them to my sister when I get home as a prank.

“Emma, I'm home! I brought you apples,“ I yelled.

My sister ate the apples. Next thing I know, she starts screaming.

PEW PEW PEW! I hear.

“Help! Lasers are coming out of my eyes,” she screams. We were home alone, so I ran to help her. She’s right! Lasers are coming out of her eyes!

This is going to be stressful to explain.

THE END

The Completely Normal Frog/The Laughing Landline

Welcome back to Season 7! When last we saw the Story Pirates, they jumped into a magical picture frame to…who knows where! Today, we find out where. Featuring two brand new stories: “The Completely Normal Frog,” a song that is in no way weird, we swear, written by Wyatt, a 10 year old from Vermont, and “The Laughing Landline,” the story of a town that learns a valuable lesson from fading technology, written by a 12 year old from Canada named Fia.

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Illustration by Camila Franklin

The Completely Normal Frog

by Wyatt, age 10, Vermont

Once upon a time in a random swamp, there lived a very normal frog named Gorf, because Gorf is frog backwards.

(GORF) Hi!

He lived in modern home, eating McDonalds with his pet mosquito, Gerg (greg backwards), which is totally normal, so STOP LAUGHING AT THIS TOTALLY NORMAL AND NOT AT ALL STRANGE STORY. Ahem.

Now, on with the story.

(GERG) Hey Gorf, wanna go fly fishing at the pond?

(GORF) I'm tired. What if I just lay down in a lawn chair while you fish?

(GERG) Sounds good to me! And also totally normal and not at all weird!!

(Later, at the pond)

WHIZZZ

(GERG) Wow, I just saw a WHOPPER!

(GERG) Can you hand me another fake fly to use? My lure isn't working on this fish.

(GORF) Okay, here is a good one.

(GERG) Thanks!

*SILENCE*

(GORF) Does it seem weird that you're fly fishing?

*PAUSE*

(BOTH) NOPE!

*C-CRACK*

(GORF) AHH LOOK OUT FOR THAT BRANCH FALLING TOWARDS YO-

*WHACK*

*KABLOOSH*

(GERG) AHH THE CURRENT IS WASHING ME UPSTREAM! WHICH IS NORMAAAL [fading out]

(GORF) Oh no! I must make a very fancy nine-story 400 MPH yacht to follow him in 3 seconds!!!!

3 seconds later!

(YACHT) NRR NRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(GORF) Hooraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! [fading out]

(GORF) Look there he is! I nom must jump from the ninth story balcony and save him!!!

*HUP*

(GORF)AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

*KABLOOFSHHHHH*

(GERG) You saved me!!!!!

(GORF) All in a days work foor... SUPER GORFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~What Really Happened~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

*HUP*

(GORF) AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

*KABLOOFSHHHHH*

(GERG) HEY! You landed on me while I as having a soft drink on a floaty not rushing down a river at ALL! AND YOUR YACHT NEVER EVEN MOVED!!!!!

(GORF) All in a days work fooor... SUPER GORFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!

(GERG) AND YOU SPILLED MY SOFT DRINK!!

(GORF) THE END!

Our adaptation of “The Completely Normal Frog” was written by Ned Riseley and Rachel Wenitsky and produced by Jack Mitchell

The Laughing Landline

by David, age 9, Canada

Once upon a time there was a city named seriousville and everyone in it wasn't allowed to laugh.

In seriousville there was a girl named Grace. Grace loved being serious with her friends. One day she went to call her friends on her landline, so she dialed her friend, Rachel's phone number but instead of ringing she heard laughing. First a giggle then a laugh then a full on guffaw! Grace screamed!! But then Rachel picked up and asked why she was screaming. Grace said that her landline was just laughing! Rachel said that was crazy because no one in seriousville laugh. She said no one had laughed in so long that she forgot how! Grace said she was probably right and then hung up. Later that day Grace's mom tried to call her boss but instead of ringing she heard laughing. First a giggle then a laugh then a full on guffaw! Grace's mom fainted! Even later that day Grace's dad tried to call his wife but she was still fainted so he got sent to voicemail. But instead of ringing he heard laughing! First a giggle then a laugh then a full on guffaw! He ran away. Finally the whole family decided to call 911. But instead of ringing they heard laughing! First a giggle then a laugh then a full on guffaw! But then they started to laugh! Then their neibours started to laugh, then their whole street, then the whole city, then the whole world started to laugh first giggle then a laugh then a full on guffaw!

THE END!!!

Roll Call Stories

The Mad Men

by Jauni, age 9, California

The Jewellery Trees

by Griffin, age 6, New Zealand

Once upon a time there was a jewellery tree and it washed up on the island of Ckomanako. And there were lots more jewellery trees growing, and there were special treasures that fell out of the tree (only crystals).

And there was another jewellery tree that only grew one jewel and then another, and then a coin. It was so weird. A coin is not jewellery.

And then the island, there was a stingray that stole the jewellery and a hunter hunted the sting ray. The jewellery tree came to life and they helped shake all the jewellery off, there was a treasure chest attached to the tree. The hunter stole the chest and held the chest lid down. And then a shark came to another island of jewellery trees and a cat came with the shark and the neighbours got really excited, and the dad got really mad. Because he hates jewellery. Those are jewellery trees! They're made out of jewellery! He pulled all of the jewellery trees out of the ground with his big muscles. The jewellery came to life and started beating him.

Then the island wasn't a fairytale anymore. It was all a dream. The end.

The Red Panda Who Wanted To Be A Tooth Fairy

by Miriam, age 12, Wisconsin
There was once a red panda who was very special! She was the queen of ALL the red pandas! Her name was *INHALE* Queen Samantha Girdlelocks Cupcake Ice Cream Cookie Sprinkles The 131st! And she wanted to be... *drum roll* A Tooth Fairy! She loved the idea of collecting human bones that had been yanked out of the mouths of small children! It sounded AWESOME! She called the Tooth Fairy Department on her telephone and greeted them as formally as she could, "Greetings fairies! I am looking for The Tooth Fairy so I can steal her job!" she said into the telephone. "Okay!" Said a voice from the phone, "I'm giving her the phone right now!" they said cheerfully. "Hello!" Said a voice that sounded WAY too happy, and Queen Samantha Girdlelocks Cupcake Ice Cream Cookie Sprinkles the 131st immediately recognized this voice as the one and only voice of the one and only Tooth Fairy. "Hello!" Queen Samantha Girdlelocks Cupcake Ice Cream Cookie Sprinkles the 131st said in reply, "I am here to steal your job!" she added. She felt that the Tooth fairy should know this, "Um.." Came the voice on the other end of the line, "No. Thank you for the offer though!" "Aww MAN!" The Queen thought. "But!" The Queen's fuzzy ears perked up in interest, "You can have a pin that says, 'I tried (but failed) at stealing the Tooth Fairies job!' " "Okay!" Said the Queen.

THE END!