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The Heron & The Web
Read more...Carl and Carlotta arrived at the house, the garden although very small, was so neglected, and over-grown it was difficult to walk from one end to another – years ago it must have been lovely. Outside the kitchen door was a paved area leading to an archway and then through to another paved area in which was a delightful oblong pond – on clearing away much weed and leaf debris they found, much to their delight, that there were goldfish living in it – how wonderful! Around the far edge years earlier someone had planted bamboo whose leaves had fallen into the water and completely hidden the beautiful goldfish, so it was only when these leaves were cleared that the fish were discovered. In thi...
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Twiggles – Aviatrix Extraordinaire
Read more...It was just the faintest of shadows crossing the sun.You could miss it if you didn’t know, but she knew! The distinctive black wings swooped ever lower and she hardly had time to brace herself before the onslaught began: “dik dik dik … dik dik dik … dik dik dik …”. However hard Twiggles tried she would never understand.She loved everything about flying, but at times like this that was no compensation. With a sigh of resignation, she executed a perfect barrel roll and headed for cover. Out of the corner of her eye she spotted Ginger D’Arcy dropping like a stone! With a shuddering crash he impacted the top of the garden fence.Then, miraculously, he was just standing there, rocking...
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Two Seeds
Read more...Two seeds sat side by side in a fertile flowerbed during springtime. The one seed was eager to grow and flower; its thoughts were filled with visions of itself pushing through the earth, sending out more shoots, drinking the dewdrops, blossoming and climbing high towards the sun. He wanted to embrace the whole Mother Earth, and thus, the seed started to grow! The second seed, on the other hand, was apprehensive about beginning the growing process. He thought to himself: “If I start to put down roots and my stems begin growing, I will get wet from the dewdrops, my leaves will be trampled by the birds and snails and butterflies will feed of me. When my flowers bloom, they will be pick...
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The Prince and the Water Nymph
Read more...Once upon a time in a faraway kingdom, there was a beautiful lake. It was surrounded by a forest, and surrounding the forest were mountains. It looked just like any other lake. But it wasn’t. This lake was deep, and wide, and had many secrets. One of the biggest secrets was that it was home to mysterious, magical creatures: the water nymphs. The water nymphs were very shy, and only a handful of people in the world have ever seen one. They are quite like mermaids, although instead of being half human and half fish, they can change from one to the other. Some do not even change into fish; they might become an eel, or a tadpole, or a seal, or even a dolphin- so long as it was a creature t...
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Didi and the Androids
Read more...Nobody knew how the Androids worked, not even Professor Sci-Fi. Ever since the foreign leader Extinctus had arrived from a strange and far-away land, the Androids had stalked Perpetua in search of books to burn. The Androids never spoke. They never harmed anybody. But they seized books from every home they encountered and then marched them far away to the tower where Extinctus lived. There the books were burned in great fires visible for miles each night. The fires were even visible from the sea where Didi Dolphin lived, glittering like stars that had fallen from the heavens to settle on the distant coast. But now Didi had a mission, one that could change everything. Professor Sc...
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An Unexpected Visitor
Read more...Every afternoon, James liked to visit Litrasaurus in his cave to read with him. Litrasaurus was a wise old dinosaur who had many wonderful stories to tell. On this particular afternoon, James was entering the cave as he always did, but something seemed out of place. There was a young dinosaur walking around the entrance. This little dinosaur looked familiar, but James couldn’t quite put his finger on why. The dinosaur looked confused. “Hello”, said James, “is everything ok?” “I’m lost”, he said. “Don’t worry, you’re safe in here” said James, “- what’s your name?” “I can’t – I can’t remember … ” said the dinosaur, “and I can’t remember how I got here, either”. James knew som...
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Jungle Animal Acrostic
Read more...I am a giraffe: G is for great, I’m tall for tree grazing I is for Incredible – my neck is amazing! R is for ruminant, I’m the biggest one. A is for Africa where I am from. F is for fascinating, read all about me! F is for friendly, I only eat tree. E is for exciting, what it’s like to be me! I am a zebra: Z is for Zebra, I’m striped and fast E is for elegant, look at me as I trot past B is for beautiful, I look good in stripes R is for running, I run for my life! A is for Africa, I live there too. I am an elephant: E is for Enormous, a huge land mammal L is for life span, I live longer than a camel! E is for ears, great big and...
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Solving A Story Writing Problem
Read more...Once upon a time there lived a young man who loved to write stories about the world. Every year he chose a different animal to write a story about. One night he couldn’t think of a new animal to write about so he went onto the Internet to try and find something but he still could not find anything so then he just began all over again word for word. To do that, he had to work all night to do it so he decided he would stop writing stories about animals of the world and started writing about flowers instead.
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Sally The Homesick Alien
Read more...A million years ago, there lived an alien called Sally. Sally lived on Mars. She went out for a walk one day and she saw a man from Earth standing between two big, red rocks. Sally ran back home calling out “there’s a man on our planet!” But before she got there, the man chased after Sally saying “I won’t hurt you.” So Sally stopped and she let the human being take her down below to Earth. She stayed on Earth for quite a while but one night she looked up at the night sky and saw her family. She realised Mars was a better planet and she wanted to go home. She started to think how much she was missing her family so the next day she secretly began to make a rocket so she could go back ...
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A Halloween Surprise
Read more...One fine day on Halloween a rather strange person came out of Mum and Dads’ room. They didn’t know what it was or who it was. They were intrigued, so they followed them. Once the person was out of sight they began investigating the room. They found nothing out of the ordinary besides a small piece of paper on the floor. It was a photograph of their Dad and Mum but Dad’s body was ripped out of the photo. They found the other piece and in the photo everyone was wearing Halloween costumes. They found a secret door in the house, hidden for years behind a bookshelf. They stopped and heard maniacal laughing. They didn’t think of opening the door because the laughing sounded so scary. The ...
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A spy in the camp for Litrasaurus!
Read more...It had been one of those beautiful summer days and Fancy was flying the children back to Litrasaurus cave she was tired but they had all had so much fun. She had taken them on one of her flights of fancy to a wonderful distant age that they had wished to visit – more of that adventure in another story. On her journey back flying high over the land of Perpetua she noticed something strange, it looked like a child asleep but it was getting dark and she could not make it out clearly, she did not mention it to the children but flew as fast as she could to safely return them, it worried her as she knew that the dark woodland was not somewhere safe for lone children as many mysterious creature...
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Secret in the cellar
Read more...Last lesson, Friday afternoon – numeracy. Time crawled so slowly, I thought it had stopped. I liked numbers. They made sense to me. They didn’t slip and slide off in all directions like words did when I was writing. They moved obediently into neat rows and columns so Mrs Taylor could give each answer a bright green tick. I’d finished the sheet, even the extra questions. I wanted the bell to ring. I checked the clock again. It still said 3.15. Fifteen minutes to go. I yawned. Our classroom was hot and stuffy. A trapped bluebottle buzzed angrily against the window pane beside me. The bell of an ice cream van tinkled in the distance. ‘Have you finished, Anna?’ Mrs Taylor’s voice ...
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Gone missing
Read more...My name is James. When I was six, I lived in a large, rambling, old, falling down house in Derbyshire Our house was home to spiders, hedgehogs, bats and mice. Lots of mice! Mum kept a large broom with which to shoo them away out of the house. I remember the day that Sam went missing, Dad sat by the telephone his head in his hands, Mum was crying, She had been really nice that day. At lunch I was allowed hot chocolate pudding AND ice cream. The day dragged slowly along. “Time for bed James” I did not make my usual protestations. Snuggled in bed, Mum bent down to kiss me good-night when we heard a scritching, scratching sound. Mum sighed and went downstairs to fetch the broom. The sou...
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Lonely Lily
Read more...Once upon a time there was a secret house, it was in an unusual place, it was deep in a magical mountain. In this house lived a lonely fairy she had no friends because she lived in such a far away place, so nobody knew she was there. Her house was moved there by a witch, who was jealous of the fairy, who was good and kind and friendly,and everybody liked her, so here she was, stuck in the mountain. Her name was Lily. One day she had an idea, ” I know,” she said” I have furniture, and objects in my house, I’ll wave my wand and make them able to talk to me, then I won’t be so lonely!” For a while she was happy playing and talking to the cups, saucers, chairs , toys and everything e...
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Pin Cushion
Read more...In a big house was a little pink bedroom and in that bedroom there was a pink bed, under the pink bed was a pink box where some toys and a small pin lived. The toys were alive and could all talk to one another. When it was very quiet and no children or grown-ups were near they would come out to play. They did not get played with anymore as they were old and used and the children had out grown them. One morning the dollies and teddies decided to climb up on one another to reach the bed. “Can I climb on too please?” Asked the pin. “Oh no!” said one of the dollies “you can’t come you aren’t a proper toy, you are sharp and may hurt us.” The little pin was very sad and made her own w...
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Lizzie & Darcy
Read more...Lizzie and Darcy are ginger twin cats, currently nine and a half years old. Lizzie washes herself all day long, and is spotless. Darcy is a boy and not quite so fussy about his appearance. SOMETIMES, Lizzie decides to give Darcy a wash and starts licking his face. He puts up with it for a few moments, then gets cross and gives Lizzie a whack with his paw. It then ends in a fight and I have to intervene to stop it. But they do love one another really and Darcy will protect Lizzie if any other cat attacks her. Darcy is actually in love with a pretty, fluffy cat who lives next door, but the fluffy cat takes no notice of him, and then Lizzie feels sorry for Darcy and gives him a l...
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Twiggles Birthday
Read more...It was Twiggles birthday and she purred with anticipation when she heard the familiar squeak of the front gate as the postman arrived to deliver the mail. There was a charming card from her neighbour Darcy which he had made for her. It had lovely differently coloured paw prints which he had made into the shape of flowers. He must have dipped his paw into an assortment of coloured inks to do it and she knew how much he hated wet paws, so it was very sweet of him. His twin sister Lizzie had also sent a card upon which was a picture of a fabulous bird of many colours soaring through a clear blue sky, Lizzie knew how much Twiggles wished that she could fly and that she would watch enviously a...
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Hornet Moth - a story of an old aeroplane for young children
Read more...I am a small biplane aircraft and this is my story. I think I can already hear you saying, “Just a minute, aeroplanes can’t talk or write”. That is quite true but over the years we old wooden aeroplanes, like old ships and houses seem to absorb into their structure some part of the atmosphere in which they have existed. Every now and then, if we are lucky, we encounter a human who is sympathetic to the atmosphere around us and can attempt to tell our story as we might do if we could. I am now in a museum and a year or so ago it was visited by an old man who flew me back in those days when I still smelt of aircraft paint and hot oil and petrol. He recognised me at once and I remembered hi...
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Twiggles the Birthday flight!
Read more...Well she had decided. She had already enjoyed the wonders of the countryside where she had lived, but only from the ground, despite her wonder of flying creatures, and so she would ask Fancy (the wonderful bird from Perpetua) who had promised to take her on an amazing flight and so it was to be a new adventure, not only to experience a flight on Fancy, but also go to a special land that Twiggles had never visited – Perpetua. This was the land where the magical bird Fancy came from and that must be very special. Twiggles left her message a week after her birthday as instructed to see if the dove returned with an answer. She was not too sure that any response would return it all seemed t...
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Jemima and the Pirates
Read more...Jemima was a young girl who could always be found in the garden. She loved nothing more than digging holes in the earth and planting seeds which would grow into delicious fruits and vegetables. But Jemima had a secret which she’d never told anyone in the whole world. At the bottom of her garden was an old rickety potting shed. Every once in a while, when her parents weren’t looking, she would creep down to the end of the garden and open the creaky old door. Inside was a giant potato sack which she climbed into and all of a sudden, she disappeared. Just like that! Jemima landed with a thump on something hard and grainy. She could smell the sea and the ground beneath her was s...
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An Adventure in Venice
Read more...This was a trip to treasure and has been recorded as one of the most interesting and entertaining birthday ‘treats’ ever. So by way of introduction, we two intrepid aviators set off in our long-winged bird of paradise, a Grob 109B to be precise – and for those aficionados not familiar with this elegant mode of flying apparatus, this is a motor glider built lovingly in Germany some 30 years ago, with an impressive glide angle of 1:28, an average cruising speed of 100 knots and a range of 8 hours – which means we can travel a fair distance. To arrive in the beautiful historically wealthy city of Venice, with its plethora of sighing bridges over waters rippled by singing, gesturing gondol...
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A Poem For November
Read more...No sun – no moon! No morn – no noon – No dawn – no dusk – no proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member – No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! November!
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New Baby Brother
Read more...Once upon a time there was a white little horse called AppleJack with a white mother horse who was having a baby boy. She waited for many days until it was ready then one Valentine's Day it came out and it was blue! He grew into a toddler and it had rainbow hair so the mother called it Rainbow Dash. One sunny day the family went exploring to the river. Rainbow Dash wanted to explore but he was too young to explore by himself. Applejack didn't want to explore so they all went back to their house and got ready to go to the seaside. At the seaside they saw shells, starfish, sand castles and seaweed. After a while it was time to go to bed. The mother tucked them in bed and hoped they...
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Dino D-Day
Read more...One cold ,dark day a group of kids called triple trouble were in the house trying to think of something to do. "I know!" Shouted James ,"let's explore the woods!".Noah jumped up "yeah, that's a great idea!" Once they were in the woods they started hearing wierd noises "umm I think we should go back"whispered Ophelia "nooooo!" Shouted Noah angrily . "Wait a second" said James and he pointed at a glowing green sphere , big enough for a whale to fit through. "What is it?" Asked Ophelia "I think it's some sort of portal" said Noah. Suddenly they heard a roar and then a gigantic spinosaurus appeared, "run!!!" Screamed James. The spinosaurus charged. The gang hid and ducked behind the thi...
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Christmas Bells
Read more...I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
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Winter
Read more...Clouded with snow The cold winds blow, And shrill on leafless bough The robin with its burning breast Alone sings now. The rayless sun, Day’s journey done, Sheds its last ebbing light On fields in leagues of beauty spread Unearthly white. Thick draws the dark, And spark by spark, The frost-fires kindle, and soon Over that sea of frozen foam Floats the white moon.
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Pilgrimage
Read more...Hello I am Kit the Knight and I am a Christian. I'm going to the Canterbury Cathedral to pray. I've been in many battles and I've won every one. I am very strong, very brave and I'm extremely kind as well as moral. I wear shiny armour and a gigantic metal helmet with a ruby red feather on the top. I am very funny and I make everyone laugh. Everyone respects me because I help everyone. I've got a huge horse named Joey. I said to nobody "I wish I had someone to come with me". A couple of minutes later I saw Ted. Ted said to me "What are you doing Kit?" I explained that I was going on a pilgrimage and Ted said to me "Can I come? I've always wanted to go on a pilgrimage but I've never h...
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A Poem For February
Read more...The birds are gone, The ground is white, The winds are wild, They chill and bite; The ground is thick with slush and sleet, And I barely feel my feet.
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The Heron's Tale
Read more...I am a male heron, a wading bird related to the bitterns family. You can find us worldwide, but mainly in tropical areas. I do not know how my ancestors got here and I often wish we were still in a nice warm country. As I am sure you must realise I am a lot smarter than the others as I was able to dictate this note to the human being now typing it out. I was lucky to find him but I heard some of his friends saying that he was a complete birdbrain so I got together with him! We are unusual in the bird world in that we fly with our necks retracted and, as I expect you have seen, most birds fly with their necks stretched out. Another of our odd characteristics is that some of our feathers...
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Peterkins Mystery
Read more...After Peterkin had calmed down from tasting the coconut which took a while. We walked on the soft warm sand when suddenly there was a big CRASH! Peterkin had spotted immedatley that a big wave had brought some of the barrels in with it from the shipwreck. Then we heard a explosion we were so frightened that we ran back as fast a cheetah into the forest. When we were far away enough we started to look at our surroundings but all we could see was just trees then Jack said "guys we might have a problem, we are lost! lets build a shelter to stay the night". Peterkin got hyperactive and we were not going to let him IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE BIG Jack shouted in less than an a hour they h...