Illustration by Camilla Franklin
The crew meets the owner of a cosmic zoo (Lake Bell) who has plans for a new exhibit. Featuring two new stories: “My Family Are Tigers,” the story of a kid who grows up in a unique family, by Sophie, a 10-year-old from the UK and ‘Winter,’ a song about a girl with an unpopular opinion who stands her ground, by a 9-year-old from California named Lila.
Original Stories
My Family Are Tigers
by Sophie, age 10, The UK
Tabby:Dear diary. This is my first page so I have loads to say starting with my name. Hi my name is tabby. I have a BIG secret. My mum,dad and brother Stripes are tigers. I'm human though. I was adopted by tigers and...
Stripes:What's this then hey? Dear diary. This is my first page so I have loads to say starting with my name...
Tabby: Stripes, quit it. MUM!
Mum: Stripes! Are you annoying your sister.
Stripes: I'm sorry! SISTER! I'm a tiger. She's a human. How are we related?
Mum: You have a point. Your adopted human sister then. But still, stop annoying her.
Stripes. Ok mum. Oh you'll pay Tabby.
Mum: STRIPES!
Tabby: Few. Peace at last. Anyway, where was I? Are yes! I was adopted by tigers and they speak English so it's not hard for me to communicate with them. I'm eleven tomorrow so that is exiting. Better go now it's dinner time.
Dad: Ok Tabby. We're having dead animals I got on the way back from work.
Tabby: Dad, that's your job remember.
Dad: Oh yes. Sorry.
Tabby: What kind of meat is it?
Dad: Gazelle meat.
Tabby: Ok...I'll just get a pasta pot Tesco I guess.
Mum: Ok love. Be back before family hunting.
Tabby: Ok Mum!
Tabby: Do we have to do family hunting? Is far to hard for me. I'm human.
Stripes: Your so dumb. We have to.
Dad: It's poring down outside. We have to do it next week.
Mum: Kids go to bed now please.
Tabby and stripes at the same time: Ok Mum!
The end!
Winter
Lila, age 9, California
One day there was a girl named Frost. She loved Winter. It was her favorite season. No one else liked it so no one liked her. She was even bullied for it. Once, at school, the teacher instructed them to wright an opinion paper of their favorite season and she was the only one who chose winter. Once they were all finished and up on the wall, nobody even bothered to read it and started to bully her more than ever. From then on, everyone, even the nice kids, made fun of her and bullied her more then ever and hated her. It continued on like this for a while, until open house. Then, all of a suden, Frost got a burst of confidence from her anger when some one said something SUPER mean to her a second ago. So she pulled out a chair and shouted at the top of her lungs, ""READ MY OPINION PAPER! JUST READ IT!"" She was very scary when she said that, so everyone crowded around it. It was mainly about all of the fun things you can do during winter. For example: Skiing, Snowboarding, Sledding, Snowball fights, etc. Reading it made people reallize how awsome Winter is and how much fun you can have during it. After that, people stoped bullying her and she actually became kind of popular!
THE END
Our adaptation of “Winter” was written by Alan Schmuckler and produced by Brendan O’Grady with vocal arrangements and direction by Jack Mitchell.
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