Doglandia

Today we have a brand new story for you that features lots of dogs and literally hundreds of barks. So many barks that you may ask yourself, “could they put in any more barks?” The answer is YES. Written by a 9 year old from Illinois named Paloma.

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Doglandia

by Paloma, age 9, Illinois

Hello. Welcome to Doglandia. It’s the coolest place in the galaxy.

We’ve got dogs up high, we’ve got dogs down low, so come down to Doglandia, the coolest place in the galaxy.

We’ve got cool dogs. We’ve got shoe dogs. We have two dogs. And many, many more.

We’ve got ten dogs. We’ve got twenty dogs. We’ve got thirty dogs. We’ve got forty dogs. We’ve got fifty dogs. We have dogs all over the world.

So come on down to Doglandia. The coolest place in the galaxy.

We’ve got Spanish dogs. We’ve got English dogs. We have Indian dogs. We have Serbian dogs. We have French dogs. We have polyglot dogs.

Doglandia is where your dogs can rest. It’s where your dogs can eat. They can even have a house of their own. There is even a palace where the king lives. Guess who’s the king? Yah, you’re right, it’s me!

We’ve got spy dogs. We have high dogs. We’ve got my dogs. And yours.

So come on down to Doglandia. The coolest place in the galaxy.

The End

Roll Call Stories

The Everlasting Chickie Story

by Vivian, age 6, Massachusetts

How does the chicken lay its egg? Well, maybe this story will answer your questions. Once there was a hen named Henny. One day she was walking around with her hen friends until SPLAT onto ground! came an egg! Suddenly, it happened to all of her friends! Eggs were everywhere! All of the hens looked at them curiously and pecked them open and chicks came out! Then Santa appeared making everything more confusing for the frazzled hens. Then they all started cheering Christmas! Christmas! and then the baby chicks went SPLAT onto the ground! and laid even more small eggs! Then the hens put the chicks on their heads and the chicks put the smaller chicks on their heads and shouted Christmas! Christmas! Then the small chicks went SPLAT onto the ground! and laid more eggs. Then those chicks laid even more chicks which were very tiny and those chicks laid even more miniscule chicks and so on and so on until there were chicks so small you could not even see them!Then the humans noticed and joined in chanting Christmas! Christmas! The whole giant party started chanting Christmas! Christmas! even Santa and his reindeer. Next they hopped on Santas sled and flew around the world dropping Christmas lights on peoples houses and chanting Christmas! Christmas! And then they stopped by the house library and got a few houses and decorated them with Christmas lights. Finally they put the houses on their heads and chanted Christmas! Christmas! Until the whole world went to the North Pole and built houses and lived happily ever after toghether.

The Pinecone That Wanted to be a Cow Boy (Literally)

by Koby and Cyrus, Idaho

A Thanksgiving Story

by Maya, age 9, Delaware

Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving! I had no idea what the word meant, but it was everywhere! The farmer, his wife, their three children, everyone was talking about it! I decided to ask the farm car what it was and settle this. He broke into a fit of laughing when I asked.

“You’re such a turkey!” he howled.

I stared down at my feathers, beak, and tail.

“Well, you’re right about that,” I said, confused.

He was laughing too hard to talk now.

“Thanksgiving,” he said through his giggles, “is when they turkeys.”

My beak dropped open. I ran through the chicken coop and cow pen like a…well, like a turkey!

“What is up with you?” a cow said calmly.

“GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE!” I screamed frantically.

****

“Okay, so…” I drew a line in the dirt. I was with my friend, the barn owl. “The hot chilis are here. I’m here. If I …”

“Those chilis are just way too hot,” my friend interrupted.

“That’s the plan!” I exclaimed. “These chilis are hot enough to blow me to the moon! I’ll come back after Thanksgiving.”

“Too hot,” the barn owl repeated.

“Well, I -”

“WAIT!” said the barn owl. “There’s one thing you should know!”

“No time!” I said, running towards the crops.

I plucked a plump pepper prestigiously. I stuffed it in my beak. “Gobble!” I shrieked. It was SO spicy! My feathers turned red, but I didn’t blow to the moon. The spice was what I was worried about now.

****

There was one last thing left to do. I had tried everything, from trampolines to gummy bears. I had to convince the farmer to eat something else. I stole a ham and cheese sandwich and carried it to the farmhouse’s front door. I rang the doorbell. The farmer’s wife answered.

“Hello?” she said.

I held out the sandwich in my beak.

“Oh, for me? Sorry, but we’re vegetarian.”

How to Make Grilled Peaches/Peanut Butter Smoothies (feat. Hannah Solow)

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.”

Butts/The Audition (feat. John Legend and F. Michael Haynie)

 A magnetic, musical manatee (John Legend) tries to convince the Story Pirates to form a marching band, but is he really who he says he is? Featuring two new stories: “Butts,” a song about, well, butts, sung by Broadway star F. Michael Haynie and written by Malachy, a 7 year old from Pennsylvania, and “The Audition,” a story about the trials and tribulations of putting on a brand new musical, written by a 10 year old from Massachusetts named Nora. 

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Illustration by Camila Franklin

Butts

by Malachy, age 7, Pennsylvania
Butts are everywhere
Butts are nowhere
Butts are up
Your underwear
Butts are long
Butts are strong
Butts want to live in Hong Kong

Our adaptation of “Butts” was composed by Jack Mitchell

The Audition

by Nora, age 10. Massachusetts

NARRATOR: Usually stories start with “Once upon a time” and end with “Happily ever after”, but oh, no, this story is different. To set the scene, it was a loud, bustling day in New York City, where we find two writers, Tom.S and Tom.G, hard at work on their new musical, Dogs.

TOM.G: (on the phone) Yeah, I’ll get back to you on that Ronaldo, Ok, yeah, sounds good, bye!

TOM.S: (while pouring coffee) ‘Morning Tom, who was that?(he sips his coffee)

TOM.G: Oh, that was just Ronaldo, from set design, he wants us to make a deadline for the giant dog bone, the one you said should fall on all the dogs’ faces during “Daydreams”.

TOM.S: I forgot about the dog bone! Is he on the phone right now? Tell him to get on that! I’m going to the audit- (Tom.G shuts the door for his phone call) -ions :(

NARRATOR: And so, Tom.S set off for the auditions.

MONTAGE SINGERGUY: (singing in jazz monotone) Montage, we’re doing a montage, until Tom get’s to the auditions, yeah,yeah,yeaaaaaah! And now he’s there!

TOM.S: Here I am at the auditions! Let’s see who's first! I love this part, because they get to sing their own songs! Unlike most thetres I know! (music starts)

AUDITION #1: Your Pa-Pa-Paparazzi!

AUDITION #2: LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

AUDITION #3: (dead silence)

TINA: (feet shuffling) Um… I’m here to sing a song, but I just made it up. Is that okay?

TOM.S: Sure! What’s your name?

TINA: Uh… Tina.

TOM.S: Okay Uh… Tina, whenever you're ready!

TINA: Okay Tina, you got this! (singing) This is remembrance! The feeling that I can’t quite reach, but now I see that thiiis belongs to me! The moment I just walked in I felt it in my bones, but now I see that thiiis is a part of me. (quieter now) And now I see that this is a part of me. Thank you!

TOM.S: Wow! That was great! You got the part!

TINA: Thank you! I can’t wait to be on Broadway!

TOM.S: Oh, you won’t be on the street, it's only 7th ave, but it technically is a Broadway musical! Tom! Get in here!

TOM.G: What!

TOM.S: We found ourselves a Rizzabella!

TOM.G: The lead!?


TOM.S: Yep! Tina over here!


TOM.G: Great! We look forward to working with you!

NARRATOR: The End!

Roll Call Stories

The Strange Green Snow

by Isla, age 9 UK

Drake and Bobby McBobbyson (but we call him Bob for short) are best friends. They were having the

best me of their lives at a sleepover, at Drakes house, when Drake’s mum came in and said “boys, it’s

me to go to bed.”

They fell asleep and woke up to a ginormous fart! “Eeeewww!” they both said at the same me, then

they fell about laughing. Drake gets up and looks out of the window. “Come quickly Bob! It’s snowing,

but the snow is green!” Bob rushes to the window and gasps. He looks at the comic they had been

reading last night called ‘The Day of the Green Snow’.

Drake and Bob decide to go outside to explore. Bob picks up a handful of snow, and to his horror, it

starts wriggling in his hand. “Drake, it’s moving!” he shouts. At that moment, they hear a loud rustling

sound, coming from behind them. They both turn around and they couldn’t believe their eyes.

Standing before them was a big, fat, green snow alien! It turns out, it wasn’t snow at all, it was

actually ny green aliens – and now they were clumping together to make one giant monster alien.

Drake and Bob look at each other and whisper “run!”, and both shoot o running. The monster starts

following them and suddenly they hear an almighty roar. They turn around to look at what’s

happening and see the big giant alien monster eat the house! “Aaaaahhhh!” they shout. They see a

big bush and decide to hide behind it. Bob puts his hand in his pocket and nds the popping candy

that he had put in there yesterday. He had an idea! “Drake, let’s throw the popping candy in to the

monsters mouth”, he said. So they both got their popping candy and threw it in to the big alien

monsters mouth. Then, suddenly, the aliens were popping everywhere – up, down, le right –

everywhere!

The next thing they hear is a li le voice saying “why did you do that?”. Drake and Bob look down and

see lots of li le aliens looking up at them. Bob said “it’s because we don’t want to be eaten by li le

aliens, do we?” The aliens looked sad and said “no, no, no, we’re so sorry. We weren’t trying to eat

you, we were trying to ask you something.” “But why did you eat the house then?” said the boys. “It’s

because when we cough, we eat stu by accident. We’re so sorry” said the aliens. “It’s ok”, said Bob.

“But what did you want to ask us?” “Oh, we wondered if you could help us rebuild our ship?” said the

aliens. “Oh ok”, said Drake, “we’d love to. But rst, please can I have my house back?” The aliens

laughed and said “Yes, of course. Just give us a minute”.

There was a rustling sound again, as all the aliens that were ung everywhere came back to cling on

to the big clump. Then Drake and Bob heard a loud, rumbling sound, followed by the biggest fart

they’d ever heard.

“There’s your house”, said the aliens, with a giggle.

The End

Ghost Pepper

by George, age 5, Massachusetts

There was a ghost who had a house. He went to the beach and saw a man. He said hi but the man did not respond because it was a ghost talking. The man said who is that? And the ghost said Hi its me, Im a ghost.

Can I name you? Asked the man.

Yes! Replied the ghost.

I want to name you Jack.

The ghost went back to his house and got them a snack. He brought fruit and vegetables back to the beach. He shared the snack with the man. The ghost tried a ghost pepper first. It was labeled ‘ghost pepper:warning!” the man said, No no don’t eat that! But the ghost ate it anyway. It was really really hot so the ghost ran home for water. He took a sip and went back to the beach. He picked up another pepper with no sticker. The man said, no don’t eat that! Its another ghost pepper. The ghost ate it, had another drink, and started to feel funny. The ghost began to turn back into a human. It turns out a ghost pepper can save a ghost.

The man said, ‘woah!’ as JAck became a man.

Jack was so happy. Thank you! He said. Then Jefferey walked down the beach. The ghost said to the man, remind me of your name…

The End

That wasn't his last name but this is the end of the story!

The Chicken Cow

by Julia, age 7, Georgia

The Chicken Cow

Hi my name is cow. But I am a chickin cow? Yes I am! I luve to jump into leaves! POOF chicken again!

The End

The Ballet Flamingo Did

Today we have a brand new story featuring a member of the animal kingdom that is both beautiful and incredibly weird looking: the Flamingo! Written by sisters Yasmina and Tamilla in New York

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The Ballet Flamingo Did

by Yasmina and Tamilla, New York

Roll Call Stories

The Pig That Found A Motorcycle In His Toilet

by Gabriel, age 9, Ontario

Once there was a pig named Tom Pig. He lived in a statue of himself eating pig food. He liked pig food. The roof of his house was made of pig food that was made of metal. He thought it wasn’t metal. He thought it was actually pig food. He ate his roof. Then he thought it was yummy. Then he ate everybody in the world’s roof. The roofs were yummy. Then he needed to use the bathroom very badly. Then his toilet was clogged, so he dived into his toilet and found a motorcycle. He rode on the motorcycle for 50,000 years. Then he went back to his house, but it was knocked down by the big, bad steamroller. Then he ate the steamroller’s roof. Then he started eating the wheels. Then one hour later, the big, bad steamroller was in his tummy. “That looked yummy,” another pig said. Then the pig found the big bad steamroller’s brother. Then two hours later he came back. “That’s way more disgusting than it looks,” the pig said. “Now I also need to use the bathroom” He went to his bathroom, but it was also clogged by the world record’s biggest motorcycle, and then he rode on it for 100,000 years. “Wow!” said Tom Pig. “That’s 50,000 more years than I did,” said Tom Pig. “Minus 50,000 years, plus 50,000 years. Hurray! I’m good at math, Tom Pig said. Then he planted a plant and tried to build another house, this time, out of computers. And then he made 12,000 alarm systems in case somebody came into his house.
The End.

The Seltzer Can That Wouldn’t Stop Fizzing

by Margo, age 6, Vermont

Mom: Honey, don’t forget your drink!

Rose: Coming mom! Let me just open this can of seltzer. Whoa, it’s very fizzy!

Evil Seltzer: I am alive! I am an evil seltzer! Rarrrrr!

Rose: Oh no! It’s an evil seltzer! And it won’t stop fizzing! It’s flooding the town with fizz! And the beach. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Evil Seltzer: Rrrrraaaaaaarrrrrr! I will destroy the world!

Rose: Oh no! What do we do? Let’s squirt sunscreen into the fizz. I’ve got my sunscreen. Hah! Oh no, it’s just making the fizz fizzier an… Wait, mom - why are you chopping kale?

Hi-ya! Oh yeah, you’re stuffing up the seltzer can’s top with kale so it won’t flood the town anymore. Or the beach.

Evil Seltzer: I will still destroy the world!

Rose: Well, you are not. Goodbye!

THE END

Narrator: And now, as the narrator, I see the giant seltzer monster from this story. And now I might be eaten by it.

Blast Off Mode

by Burnham, age 7, California

Once upon a time thar was man named Burnmom.

He is walking back down the street back home from school. Then he sees something green, magenta, and brown in the sky. But something seems strange about it. It’s a technology that he’s never seen.

He finds a red emergency press button and it tells him the instructions of how to use it. It tells him at the last to not press the very big button at the top. But when he tries to press the button in the middle that says Blast Off on it, he presses the button on top on accident. It flies up into the sky and lands right back down where it was before. Then he presses blast off mode and blasts off to the moon.

The End.

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.

Scroll down for the original stories behind the episode!

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.

Scroll down for the original stories behind the episode!

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