The Dream

Once upon a time there was a mother ladybug. She just had some babies, and she named them. One she named Luna. One she named Lentina. And the last one she named Leequana. They were larvae. They crawled around on the leaf they were born on and ate aphids.

One day the mother ladybug's friend Buntina came along. She was a butterfly. Her wings were blue with purple spots on them. She brought a present for the mother ladybug. It was a baby present. They had a little chat. The mother ladybug chewed on aphids, and the butterfly sucked on nectar. They had a good time. After they were finished eating and drinking the mother ladybug opened her present. It was a picture of a mother ladybug and three children ladybugs. She said, "Thank you," and they hugged each other. And then the butterfly went away.

Then she tucked her babies in their beds, and they had their nap. When they woke up they found presents for each of them beside each of their beds. They opened up their presents. Luna's present was a stuffed animal ladybug. Lentina's present was a ladybug memory game. Leequana's present was a big globe of the insect land which was where they lived. They all loved their presents. They ate a little aphid for snack, and then they played with their presents and decided to all play the memory game together.

When they were done playing the ladybug memory game it was bedtime. They didn't want to go to bed, but it was time to go to sleep. So they went into their beds and went to sleep. They all had the same exact dream. And this is what their dream was.

In their dream, they went to the Insect Amusement Park, and they had a great time there. Luna went on a tremendous slide. It was the tallest slide in the whole amusement park. She was very brave. Lentina and Leequana didn't want to go on because it was too scary for them. They walked on, and they got to the bug carousel. Each of them went on. Luna rode on a grasshopper, Lentina rode on an ant, and Leequana rode on a ladybug. When it was time to get off they were a little dizzy, but not that much. Then they looked on their maps, and it said that there was a ladybug show. It was starting now! So they hurried to go and see it. The show was all about the ladybug life cycle. It was very fun. When it was over they went to see the storytelling. There was one story about a ladybug, another story about a grasshopper, and the third story was about an ant. The three larvae thought it was funny because those were the animals they'd ridden on the carousel. They were hungry so they went and had a little snack. They munched on aphids and then they woke up.

The end.

*ladybug photo from planetnatural.com

John Superhero and Simon Clayfeet

Once upon a bad time there was a superhero named John Superhero. He heard yelling, "Help! Help! Help!" and he ran to help whoever was calling for help. He saw a dinosaur. It was a T-Rex. He wasn't frightened or even a little scared. He went and saw who the T-Rex was going to attack, and it was his friend named Simon Clayfeet. His clay feet were stuck to the ground, and so he couldn't get away from the T-Rex. John Superhero tried to pick him up, but he couldn't because his feet were so stuck that it seemed like his feet were glued down on the ground, and the glue was dry. John Superhero had an idea. He went to the kitchen and got a cutting knife. He cut Simon Clayfeet's clay feet off of the ground so he could run away. And then John Superhero of course had to fight the T-Rex. So all he had to do was put the knife through the T-Rex. And then the T-Rex would die. So he put the knife through the T-Rex and the T-Rex died.
The end.

The Fairy and Mush Mush

The Fairy and Mush Mush

Once upon a time there was a fairy and her pet hairball named Mush Mush. Everyone hated Mush Mush. Everyone thought he was ugly except the fairy. The fairy loved Mush Mush. When they went out for walks all of the people yelled at Mush Mush saying he was ugly.

One day Mush Mush was tired of people calling him ugly. He asked the fairy if they could go to the magic charmer, who could do anything. He thought that maybe she could make the people think that he was not ugly. So they went to the magic charmer. But the magic charmer couldn’t do that. She didn’t know how to. So they looked up magic charmers and thought maybe they could go to a different one. A different one might know how to do it. And they went to a different charmer. This one couldn’t do it either. They kept on trying different charmers and different charmers until they had tried all the charmers in the whole entire world. But none of them could do it.

Then they were very tired. So they took a nap. When they woke up the fairy had an idea. They could get a costume, and when they go out for walks they would put on that costume and Mush Mush would look pretty. And when they got home they could take off the costume because no one would be looking. So they did that. But it did not work because the people recognized the fairy so they thought that Mush Mush must still be Mush Mush so they still called him ugly because they knew it was really Mush Mush.

Then Mush Mush had an idea. They could disguise the fairy too. So both of them would be disguised, and then the people wouldn’t realize that it was really them. So they looked for a costume for the fairy even though she was already pretty. But all the costumes were Halloween costumes and Halloween costumes are scary and not pretty. So they went to a different store where they sold costumes. They had pretty costumes there. But all the pretty costumes didn’t fit her. They didn’t know what to do.

They thought and thought and thought until they felt like they’d worn out their whole brains thinking. So they decided to stay home for a while and not go out and forget about it. They did that for a while, but after a while they felt like going out, but they didn’t want Mush Mush to be teased. It was night time so they decided tomorrow they’d think of a plan. They went to sleep.

In the night both of them dreamed of a plan. And each of their plans were the same. They woke up and told each other their plans. Mush Mush told his plan first. His plan was that he could work in a circus and his tricks would be so good and so cool that everyone would like him even though he was ugly. And then the fairy said, “That was my plan too!” So they did that plan together. They built a circus that was their own circus and they did the best tricks in the whole world. And everyone loved Mush Mush even though he was ugly.

But the fairy was still not happy. She thought that the people only liked Mush Mush because he was doing tricks. The fairy knew there were other reasons to like him. The fairy told everyone in the audience that she loved to cuddle with Mush Mush, that he was very soft and furry and that she didn't care that he was ugly. The fairy thought he was pretty. And he was nice and helpful and he tried to do nice things for other people, but they wouldn't do nice things for him. When she said that, the people felt sorry for Mush Mush. They realized that they were being mean to him. He wasn't ugly. That's how he grew up to be, and they were being mean to him. From then on everyone loved Mush Mush and they never thought anyone was ugly ever again.

The end.

How the Sea Sponge Came to be in the Sea

by Lucia Kolba

Chapter 1
Once upon a time there was a sponge. It knew about the sea. It wanted to be a thing it made up called a sea sponge. It kept a journal where it wrote down all different things about sea sponges. It imagined that they lived in the sea, and that was why they were called 'sea sponges'. One day it decided that it would go into the sea. It went and took a swim. A biiiiig tsunami came and splashed right over it. It got washed down, down, down to the bottom of the sea, and the water was so dense there that it couldn't swim back up. So, it had to stay there. It kind of ruined the habitat there, but after a while it got to fit in. And this is how it fit in. It turned into a sea sponge like it always wanted to be. And since sea sponges are used to scrub things the fish and stuff like that came up to it and scrubbed themselves on it so they would get clean. And that's how the sea sponge got to be in the sea.

Chapter 2
One day scientists found the sea sponge, and they thought this was very cool because it was a new thing under the water. And so they put it in the news. And they wrote on the news that the sea sponges lived under water and they were good for cleaning. When the people read that news they thought that they could take them out of the water and make them be for the people to clean themselves instead of for the things in the sea. By then the sea sponge had had lots of babies. So there were lots of sea sponges in the ocean. So all different people could have them. So the people started thinking about taking them out of the ocean, and now the scientists didn't know what to do because they didn't mean that the people could have them. The sea sponge had found a way to live under the water, and the scientists didn't want to break the sea sponges' habitat. It already had lots of babies, and the scientists didn't want them to die.

Chapter 3
How the scientists saved the sea sponges.
Before the people could start taking the sea sponges out of the water the scientists sent the news and the people decided that they would look at the news before they started to take the sea sponges out of the water. In the news there was an article that the scientists wrote and it said, "You can't take the sea sponge out of the water. They're for the fish and sea things to clean with. You have to leave them in the water. They have a habitat there, and they already have babies. We do not want the babies to die." The people didn't want to do that, but they knew if they didn't the scientists would get mad. So they thought they had to. So they didn't take the sea sponges. They left them where they were.


The End