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Pat Flynn has written 2 wacky fairytales. Do you recognise them?

Jackie’s Bean There, Done That

Sin, Der and Rella

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Your Wacky Fairytales

Magical Squirt!

“Wake up, sleepy head!” Squirt’s father scolded, poking Squirt.
“Hey, don’t!” Squirt protested, opening his eyes. “Oof! Mad! I’m tuck!” he wailed,
trying to release his mouth from the wall of his plant house.
“What do mean, I’m mad and you tuck?”
“Mo, I men I’m t-tuck!”
“Oh, you meant you’re stuck! But again? Seriously, you must learn how to use your powers better. First it was your fin, now it is your mouth, what’s next?” his dad said, pulling Squirt from the wall.
“At last!” Squirt cried, swimming out of the plant house into the deep blue ocean, and then back in.
“Maybe, um, uh, ummm, maybe my b-bottom’s next”, said Squirt cheekily.

You see, Squirt was a fish. A powerful magical fish.
One of his powers was sticking onto things, but the problem was, he couldn’t control his powers yet.
That was what had happened to Squirt.

“Over here, Squirt!”
Squirt’s best friends as well as classmates, Minky and Poppy cried out to Squirt.
“Coming! Bye Dad!”
Squirt dashed towards his friends and shouted, “Tag!”
He then raced them off to school.

Squirt and his friends soon arrived at school.
They continue to play tag until they reached the cave where the class was held. When the bell sounded, everyone started to settle down in the cave.

“Hello kids,” said Ms. Primrose, “Today we are going to learn about—” her voice got interrupted by a loud ringing sound.
“Yay, recess!” a lot of fish cried, but Ms. Primrose shushed them.
“I’m afraid not. There is a shark in the school ground. Stay put and don’t leave the cave. I need to go and take care of this incident. I’ll lock the door behind me.”
The teacher then left them.
Everyone huddled together excitedly and started whispering.

“Oh, it’s so not fair! We should go and help as well.” Minky complained for the 20th time that morning.
After sometime when the ripple of excitement was gone, the bossiest fish in class, Deirdre, started to boast about her talents in how to save everyone from the shark.

Suddenly, a loud noise was heard outside the door of the cave.
“Shhhh!” Poppy whispered, but it was too late.
A shark, which had found the door, broke the door off its hinges, and stuck its nose into the cave.
“So Deirdre, what can we do now? Help us!” The class, except for Minky and Poppy, echoed one after another.
Squirt even joined in and teased in his cheekiest manner, “Hey, pleasssssse Deirdre, tell us you are going to save the day!”
“Arrrrg! Be quiet!” Deirdre moved backwards to hide herself.
After Deirdre moved backwards, a lot of the children pushed her forward to face the shark.
The shark opened and closed its jaw as if in wait for Deirdre and her tender flesh.

Squirt suddenly remembered the bamboo book he had read about. It had said to throw a rock at its nose, because that was it’s weak spot.
Since there was no rock, Squirt decided to try out his new power in sticking himself on the shark’s nose.
He prayed his magic would work.
“Sticky, be with me!” he shouted, and made a dash for the shark’s nose before the shark opened its mouth to chomp at him.
The magic worked and now Squirt’s bottom was stuck on the shark’s nose!
The shark looked cross-eyed at Squirt, and then got weakened.

A ripple of excitement rang out through the rest of the fish when they saw the shark had become unconscious.
Everyone, including Deirdre for once, came to congratulate Squirt.
Squirt beamed with pride. He had saved the day!

Justine, 9, 3030

 

Why Leaves Fall Off Trees

There once lived a tribe called the Warlok tribe. One day, in autumn, the leader of the Warlok tribe, Walagumalumagoo noticed some leaves falling off some nearby trees, he got worried.
He called the rest of his tribe to get together.
“We are losing our leaves on our trees,” he cried. “The leaves are falling off the trees and soon, will have no more leaves left on our trees. We must appreciate the remaining leaves and pray that they will stay. We shall bury all the leaves that have already fallen,” said Walagumalumagoo.

“Why are we losing all our leaves?” asked a brave aborigine called Jabaloo, but Walagumalumagoo had already continued speaking.
“Now before we separate, I will warn you; do not go spying at night as it could be dangerous,” he said sternly.
But even as he said this, Jabaloo and her twin sister, Lynnele, were already looking at each other with mischievous twinkles in their eyes.

That night, when Jabaloo’s family went hunting for food, the sisters made their plans for the night. When the men had finished hunting, and everyone had finished eating dinner by the fire, the whole tribe went to bed.
Lynnele and Jabaloo stayed up until they were sure that everyone was asleep then started spying from their tent window.
Unfortunately, they had no luck.
After awhile, Lynnele yawned and said sleepily, “Look, we must get some sleep.”
“Ok,” agreed Jabaloo as she was also too tired and that her eyelids were drooping.

In the morning, everyone was shocked to see most of the leaves were sprinkled all over the grass. Lynnele and Jabaloo were disappointed that they did not stay up the previous night to solve the mystery of the falling leaves. They promised themselves they would stay up that night no matter how tired they were.

That night, they lived up to their words. When Lynnele had just about fallen asleep, Jabaloo pinched Lynnele.
“What did you do that for?”
“To keep you awake! What else?”
It certainly worked. They began arguing loudly but suddenly Lynnele gasped in amazement and pointed open-mouthed at a strange pale spirit until her saliva started dripping down her chin.
“Eeww! Wipe that yukky stuff off immediately!” Jabaloo exclaimed but her own ‘yukky stuff’ also started to drip when she saw the spirit.
“Now who has the ‘yukky stuff’?” Lynnele mocked.
“But, but, look! A spirit? I can’t believe it! Omigosh!” whispered Jabaloo.

Lynnele soon found her courage and demanded, “What are you?”
The spirit smiled in her kindly manner and explained, “I am the nature spirit. I make the leaves fall off trees in autumn, and I make them grow back in spring. Now, I must go, as it is nearly dawn.” She then waved a sincere goodbye and faded away.
“Bye,” said Lynnele and Jabaloo together but realised the spirit had disappeared.

“Well,” Lynnele exclaimed, looking bewildered, “Did I dream?”
“Don’t worry, I’m still here. I’m just camouflaged. But before I go for real, understand this: we shall cross paths again next autumn! Goodbye and good luck! Farewell!” she cried and left only a curling wind, which swept away the remaining evidence of her existence.

The next morning the twins announced what had happened. Walagumalumagoo was angry that his command was disobeyed but forgave the twins as he was relieved that their leaves would not be gone forever.
The twin sisters became famous and the tribe named them ‘The Leafy-Sprite Twins’.

Up to now, the nature spirit is still working hard, and that is the reason leaves fall off trees.

Justine, 9, 3030

 

The Conquest of Mount Everest

Once there lived a wealthy man called Frank and a poor man called Bob who were friends. Frank was greedy while Bob was caring. Frank was rich because he forced other people to give him all their money.

One day, Frank wanted to be the richest person in the world. So he set off to be the first to climb Mount Everest. Bob, his friend decided to go with him to accompany him. When they reached the foot of the misty mountain, they started climbing rapidly. Ten days later, they were ten kilometres away from the very top of the mountain. At noon, Frank was tired from walking and insisted to stay for a short nap. Although Bob was tired, he kept walking until he reached the top of the enormous mountain.

At the top of Mount Everest, Bob drew picture after picture in his tiny notebook. He also wrote a detailed journal of his adventure. Five harsh days later, he finally reached the foot of the mountain. Before Bob got on his jet-black stallion and rode to the Kingdom of Tavania, Frank stole the journal and rode off to the Kingdom of Tavania on his own stallion.

When Bob reached the Kingdom of Tavania, Frank was about to show the journal to the Majesty of Tavania. But when he opened the journal, there were only two blank pages. Then Bob showed his original journal and the Majesty of Tavania had Frank hanged for lying to him. The Majesty of Tavania also let Bob marry his daughter and they lived peacefully forever after.

Jerome, 10, 2134

 

Why is the sky blue?

Once before the world began, there lived many enthusiastic cave men who were scared of an enchanted phoenix, which destroyed their beloved homes. So the King of the cave men ordered every capable man to fight the phoenix, but the phoenix could camouflage with its background and looked invisible. They had to make something to blast the feather on its tail that made it evil. So they made a hundred sleeping darts with wood and a sleeping potion to make the bird sleep.
The King also requested a hundred of his strongest men to throw the darts. When the cave men saw the colourful phoenix, they tied it to some trees using super strong ropes for a better shot. They threw the darts and the fierce phoenix fainted and dropped on the cold ground. They carried the sleeping phoenix to their hide out and celebrated all night long.
In the morning, the King took the feather off the bird and they took the darts out. They also untied it. Then it sneezed for a half day and night bubble. So the bubble hit the sky and turned it from dark red to light blue. From then on, the sky is blue.

Jerome, 10, 2134

 

Once upon a time in an old cottage there lived an old man who had a son called Hansel and a daughter called Gretel.But one day Hansel choked on a bean and it turned his voice into one that sounded like a little girl. So Hansel ended up growing his hair and wearing dresses so no-one would tease him about his voice ,but he didn’t mind because he loved playing with Gretels dolls . So Gretel went out and bought her and Hansel some more dolls . But Hansel didn’t want the blue dressed one so he chucked a tantrum and ripped the dolls head off which then out popped a genie “I will grant you 3 wishes and blah blah blah ” it said “ok” said Hansel , “well I want a pink dressed dolly ummmmm a dolls house and a toy car. which she then sold for 3 dollars and 45 cents.

Caitlin, 11, 4559

 

Why can dragons fly?

A long time ago, ordinary dragons lived in underground burrows and native Indians lived on mountains which were only as tall as a hill. At that time, dragons had tiny wings and couldn’t fly or glide, but they could run rapidly at a speed of hundred and ninety-nine miles an hour. The dragons were only twice the size of a man and ate the innocent Indians. By then, the Indians didn’t know how to protect themselves from dragons.
On a very bright night, while the dragons and Indians were sleeping, the short mountains grew ten miles up. It was because invisible tentacles from the moon pulled the mountains up. The next day, the dragons were starving to death and were close to extinction because they couldn’t climb nor fly to catch their prey. Every day at least 10 dragons died. Therefore, the Indians celebrated day and night.
After a month, there were only two adult dragons and 99 trillion baby dragons left. There were so many babies left because baby dragons only fed on soil, so they didn’t die from starvation. The baby dragons didn’t need to drink nutritious water because the soil had fresh water in it.
The next night, the moon’s rays pulled the wings of the dragons till they could fly. The following day, the dragons were ruling the valley again. They were extremely happy to be able to fly. This is why dragons can fly.

Jerome, 10, 2134

A Bad Boy with Ray Bans

Once upon a time there was a boy named Harry who wore Ray Bans sunglasses and he liked books with vampires. And his books had peas and corn through them which got squashed on the page because he didn’t stop reading while he was eating. He went to sleep while he was reading and he was in a spooky castle. And people chased him cause he stole their stuff by cutting it out of the book. When he woke up he put all the stuff back in the book and cleaned the books. He wanted to make sure he would have no bad dreams. The End

Tobias, 7, 0820

 

The Three Bears and the Locked Box

Once upon a time, there were three bears who lived in a cottage in the forest. There was Papa bear, Mama bear and Baby bear. One day Papa bear said “Why don’t we go for a walk?”

“Ok,” said Mama bear. So they went out for a walk and on the way they found a…Treasure Chest!!!

“…:)” said Papa bear.

“Eureka!” said Mama bear.

“Way! a pressure test!” said baby bear.

“-_-…it’s a treasure chest” said Mama (you know what!)

“Oh, ok! A treasure vest!”

“Never mind!” Then baby bear found a key!

” ‘o’a wey!” said baby bear. Then Mama bear *slaps forehead!*

“A KEY FOR GOD’S SAKE!”

“ok a key!”

“Could I please have it? Oh thank you. *opens* said Papa bear.

“Money!” said baby bear. “Yay! You finally got it right! said Mama bear.

“Lots of money!!!” said Papa bear. “We’re rich!” THE END

Zoe, 8, 2560

 

The Lost Charm Necklace

One day the Little Red Hen baked some cakes for the Easter Party she was holding. She invited all the characters in Magical Fairytale Land and everyone was busy baking. Cinderella was baking some cookies and Hansel and Gretel were cooking lollies for the big party. Even the Big Bad Wolf was baking cupcakes.

Everyone arrived at the party, bringing their food to share. They all played fun games like ‘Pin the Tail on the Bunny’, ‘Pass the Easter Egg’ and an Easter Egg hunt. They all had a great time and gave each other presents. Hansel gave Gretel a beautiful charm necklace with an Easter Egg charm on it. She liked it very much and she decided to wear it straight away. Soon it was time to go home, but nobody wanted to leave so they played guitar together for a while, then left saying that they would met again for Cinderella’s birthday party.

Cinderella was turning 18 on the 10th June and invited everyone to her party. Cinderella’s birthday party was fun. Everyone played games and danced to music. When Hansel and Gretel were looking at Cinderella’s birthday presents, Gretel noticed that her charm necklace was missing. She was very upset. Everyone helped to look for it and then noticed that the Big Bad Wolf had gone. Hansel gave Gretel another charm, a birthday present, to cheer her up until they could find her necklace.

Gretel kept the birthday present charm until Little Red Riding Hood’s Halloween Party. Everyone was invited again and the Big Bad Wolf came wearing the necklace that belonged to Gretel. While the Big Bad Wolf was getting a Halloween lolly Hansel and Gretel untied the necklace and put the birthday charm on it. Then Hansel gave Gretel a Halloween charm, a witch that she put on her necklace. The Big Bad Wolf apologised for taking the necklace because he didn’t know anyone owned it. He had found it in a box. Hansel and Gretel organised to have a Christmas Party and invited everyone.

At the Christmas Party everyone had fun. Before they started opening presents Hansel gave Gretel a Christmas tree charm. Then they opened their presents from Santa. Hansel got a recipe book, Gretel got an alarm clock and the Big Bad Wolf got a charm necklace all of his own.

Cassie, 7, 4470

 

Happily Toadily After

Once upon a yellow moon there was a Princess cricket, who was called Pricket. She loved a disgusting toad named, Disad. One morning Pricket was getting a drink from a warthog when she heard a really disgraceful sound. It was Disad!!!! He came bouncing up on a zebra. Then all of a sudden she said to Disad “Will you marry me”. Disad said yes so when the wedding started Pricket was wearing underpants!!!! Disad was wearing a shirt and pants, but because Pricket was a cricket she didn’t know what to wear. When the wedding was over Pricket went over to Disad’s house which was a log and she saw him getting married to another toad named Angie!!!! Pricket was angry so she went up to the door and barged in. Disad didn’t realise it was Pricket but he did truly love her. So because Disad didn’t know it was Pricket he went up to her and gobbled her up!!!! So Disad and Angie lived happily toadily after.

Grace, 10, 4507

 

One Great Toothbrush

A long time ago when all good household objects ruled the world a great battle began between a toiletbrush and a toiletchain.  This particular fairytale tells how a toothbrush (also known as Toothbrush-Joe or Joe for short) became a whacky fairytale hero.
Our fairytale begins on a Monday around fourish, while Brushlee (a toilet-brush) was teaching his apprentice, Kachuppy (a ketchup bottle) some mystical disappearing moves… Suddenly Jackychain (a toilet chain) came out of nowhere and killed the young new apprentice Kachuppy and enslaved Brushlee.

Time passed and two weeks later 2 new slaves called Toothbrush Joe and Toothpastie ( Pastie for short) arrived.. “You Came WOW” shouted Joe, It’s really him can you believe it Pastie ?!” “No I can not”. said Pastie thinking about an escape. “KEEP IT DOWN YOU THREE SLAVES !!! “said Jackychain in a grumpy mood. A few weeks later Brushlee had thought of a plan to escape. The plan involved distracting Jackychain while Brushlee and Pastie fled to freedom.

Brushlee mysteriously grabbed Jackychain pinning him underneath his hands even though both didn’t have enough time to escape. Pastie stayed behind and to late to interveen Joe heard a shout “Joooeeee”. Joe ran in but Jackychain had killed Pastie. Joe was so angry he started roughly grabbing him, but Jackychain magically disappeared into air and Joe felt an invisible kick.

Feeling madder than ever before, Brushlee started to fight Jackychain . The Brushlee and Jackychain were at the edge of the toilet Brushlee magically disappeared again, jumping out of the way, our hero Toothbrush-Joe pulled Jackychain into the toilet, flushed him down the toilet and they all lived happily ever after.
That’s the End.

Bryce, 9, 4740

 

The three bears and goldilocks

Once upon a chicken there were 3 bears. One of them was baby bear (The big one), mama bear (the small one), and papa bear (the medium one). They had a very, very villian which they hate. Her name was so evil, The greatest superheros would die. Her name was… G-g-g-g-goldilocks. The three bears HATED Goldilocks.She was their arch nemesis… In the dark side because they have cookies. But upon to the bears, they were on the light side which had porridge with honey. Goldilocks was so mad she went to their light white large cottage of lightness, squirted all of the deliciously delicate light bulb yellow colored honey, ate their wonderful pale grey porridge, broke baby bear’s tiny chair of tiny lightness, and slept in baby bears gi-normous bed. When she woke up she saw 3 angry bears holding pinkish blue lightsabers. “AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH GET OUT OF MY LIFE!!!!!!” She yelled. Then she screamed. She saw her worst weakness… EVIL KITTY CATS WHICH ARE ON THE LIGHT SIDE! “AAAAAAHHHH! TAKE THIS CAT AWAY FROM ME!” She screamed. Then she jumped out of the window. She fell 5 floors to the ground and never went home again… She just stayed lying on the ground. None of the bears nor the cat knew what happened to him. “Oh well. That proves a good will for that little rascal, never to be seen. Lets eat our porridge.” “Uhh papa….” “Yes baby” “She ate our porridge ._.” “Oh. Whoopsy. Then I guess we will just have some hon-” “That too papa.” “THE DOOR! THE SHOP! NOWWWWW…”

The end!

P.S Goldilocks declared this was the most ridiculous fairy tale ever.
P.P.S The bears loved it. Her lightsaber got weakened so they played around with their lightsabers for a few hours. Maybe even a day.

Kate, 8, 2031

 

Little Bo and Peep

Peep was Little Bo’s sister. Little Bo was 5 years old, Peep was 10 years old. Tomorow is Peeps 11th birthday. Little Bo, their mum and dad, nan and grandad, aunty and uncle had all planned a surprise party. Little Bo was in charge of making sure that when Peep went inside she closed her eyes when she walked past the living room and kitchen, so she wouldn’t see the decorations. The others were in charge of decorations. When Peep was asleep the others worked on the decorations. The next day (in the morning) everyone was hiding and when Peep walked down the stairs they all jumped out of their hiding places and said excitedly “Happy 11th birthday Peep!!” There was a beautiful cake and wonderful decorations. After the celebration Peep said “This is the best birthday ever. They all lived happily ever after…..

THE END!!!

Mackenzy, 7, 2640

 

Peanut Fairytales

There once was a peanut. He was walking one day through the forest where he met a flower. The flower was poisonous but the peanut did not know. Before the peanut could smell the pollen off the flower he knew he must surrender his peanut shell. The magic in the forest became alive as the love for the flower by the peanut became real and small tiny minute animals circled the area in the green growth of the poisonous flower. The animals were all curious about the flower and suspected that the flower was not a nice natural growing flower.
Now peanut shells help to keep the ground rich and fertilized for the flowers and all the plants and the animals decided to help the peanut. The goodness of the loving animals mixed with its powerful peanut attraction to the flower exploded into sparkles in the air and every drop off poison dried up. The peanut and the flower lived together in happiness.

Kelsea, 6, 4740

Tar & Zan

Tar kept a pet monkey named Zan. Tar copied Zan and soon became a monkey-man. Dwen (Zan’s brother) was jealous, so he tracked down Tar’s girlfriend and told her “Did you know Tar is dangerous? He killed my brother?” That was a lie.

“Don’t say that” said Tar’s girlfriend.

“If you don’t believe me I shall kill you” said Dwen. Dwen rounded up the monkeys, but Tar and Zan quickly saved his girlfriend just in time.

“Oh Tar, thankyou” said his girlfriend.
“Oooh, ooh, aaaar, aarr” asked Zan. (This meant “What about me?).
“You too” said Tars girlfriend. She turned to Tar.

“Will you marry me?” asked Tar.

“Sure” said his girlfriend.
And they lived happily ever after.
THE END.

Lauren, 8, 3690

 

Little Wolf’s Big Bad Cold

Little Wolf had just started school and had been a witness to regular lunch time sittings, which were when the school bullies (the three pigs) sat on a poor and unsuspecting animal.
Little Wolf wished someone would DO something about it! The next day, it seemed that Little Wolf had caught a Big Bad Cold! During class, Little Wolf had let out a huge sneeze all over the back of Bully Pig one’s neck!
This gave Little Wolf an idea…
That afternoon, after school had let out, Little Wolf strolled down Fairytale Lane towards the infamous straw house of Bully Pig one. As he approached the dwelling, he sniffed hard and soon felt a huge Big Bad sneeze coming on. When Bully Pig one answered the door, The sneeze blew down the Straw house and scared Bully Pig one so much that he ran away squealing.
This fiasco was repeated further down Fairytale Lane at the House of Sticks which was was home to Bully Pig two.
However, when Little Wolf approached Bully Pig Three’s house the story took a turn. His house was made of bricks.
Little Wolf saw a ladder by the side of the house and cautiously climbed up the ladder and down the chimney beside. When Little Wolf emerged from the chimney, he saw the three Bully Pigs shaking nervously in a corner. Little Wolf and the Bully Pigs made a deal that if The Pigs got rid of Little Wolf’s Big Bad Cold and stopped being bullies, Little Wolf wouldn’t tell anyone at school what had happened. Little Wolf agreed and spent the afternoon happily relaxing in a tub of warm water.
Now, at school whenever someone sneezed the Pigs began to shake in their boots and only Little Wolf new why.

Nikki, 12, 2485