The Story Pirates begin their roadtrip to StoryTellerCon. Featuring two new stories: ‘Alligator Droppings’, a story about a very fancy breakfast dish that isn’t what it sounds like (or is it?), written by Jocelyn, a 10 year old from Canada, and ‘Bees in the Ballot Box’, a story about the importance of voting, even when there are bunch of bees, written by a 9 year old from Virginia named Trevor. Peter and Lee also sit down with Nimene to read more stories written by kids in the latest installment of Story Love.
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Alligator Droppings
by Jocelyn, age 10, Canada
Once upon a time a king and queen woke up. The queen yawned and the king said "i am hungry! It must be time for breakfast."
"Yes," said the queen. But what will we eat for breakfast today?"
"Let's get dressed and go down to breakfast and choose our breakfast for today," said the king.
They walked down the stairs into the royal dining room and a castle servant came and said to them, "hello Sir, Hello Madam. What would the royal magasties like for breakfast today?"
"I do not know," said the king.
"I do not know," said the queen.
"Then," said the castle servant, "I will call in all the breakfast makers in the land!"
And so the castle servant called in them all. But the king and the queen said no to them all! They said no to pancakes, waffles, eggs in any styles, cereal, PB and J sanwiches, granola, fuit, yogurt and much more. But none of the breakfasts were quite right.
"Oh dear," said the queen, "is that all?"
"No," said the castle servant, "there is one more. He is quite odd though."
"I do not care!" said the queen, "let him in." And in came a strange man wearing dark, dark sunglasses so they could not see his eyes and wearing bunny ears on his head. He was also carrying a strange bag.
"I think...." the strange man said, "for breakfast you should have....alligator droppings!!!"
"What?!" screamed the king, the queen, and the castle servant all together.
"You heard me," said the strange man. "I said alligator droppings."
The king and the queen were very hungry so they said "OK".
"Follow me!" the strange man anounnced. So the king and queen followed him.
They ran and they ran and they ran until they came to the deep, muddy, disgusting...Alligator Swamp!
"On no!" said the king and queen.
"Here we are!" said the strange man. "Now I just need to find the supplies for getting alligator droppings from my bag.
"Aha!" said the strange man and took out a net, 5 steaks, stilts, beans, 8 more nets, a set of armor, a chess set, a rubber band, rocks, and 19 books. Then he grabbed a belt with a compartment to store stuff in. And then he said "of course the queen will fetch the alligator droppings."
The queen did not want to fetch the droppings, but she was very hungry so she just said "OK." So the strange man got her ready.
The queen waded into the swamp on stilts. She threw beans and steaks and books and a chess set to distract the alligators and went to the droppings.
The queen scooped up all the droppings and began to head back when the alligators attacked her! The alligators tried to nibble her stilts and threw themselves at her snapping their jaws!
"Hiiii Ya!" screamed the queen and she waved about her net of alligator droppings like a club. Then she took the rubber band and the rocks and slingshoted the rocks at the alligators!
Then the queen rushed back to land with the droppings and got off all the stuff. Then the king and the queen and the strange man ran off back to the castle.
When they got back to the castle they went straight to the castle kitchen.
The strange man took out pots and pans and spices and tools and got to work. Soon an amazing smell floated out of the castle kitchen and it was the best smell the king and queen had ever smelled. And then it was time to eat! The king took a bite and the queen took a bite and together they said "mmmmmmm." "Yum!" "Wow!" And together they said "this is delicious!"
"This has been the best and most exieting breakfast we have ever had!"
"Good," said the strange man. "I'll be on my way then."
"Will we ever see you again?" said the king and queen.
"Maybe," said the strange man and then he walked away.
THE END
Bees in the Ballot Box
by Trevor, Age 9, Virginia
Bees in the Ballot Box
A boy stepped into the ballot box for the first time and saw bees voting!
“Ahh” he screamed! “Where am I?!”
“What are you doing here?!” said all the bees at once.
“I don’t know?!” replied the boy. Then he jumped on his bike and pedaled home as fast as possible! When he got home, he screamed, “Mom, Dad, when I went to go voting, bees were voting too!”
“What, where, why?” stammered his mother.
“I don’t know,” replied the boy.
“Let’s just go over there and see,” declared his father. So, they went back.
The bees asked, “What are you doing here and who have you brought with you this time?”
“My mother and father,” answered the boy. “Why are you here?”
The bees replied, “We don’t know. We were just sent here by the queen bee to annoy the humans.”
The boy thought and then said, “Let’s spray the queen bee with bee killer.” It worked! The queen bee died, and the other bees few off wherever they wanted to.
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Story Love Stories
Scroll down to read the original stories or watch Peter, Lee, and special guest Nimene read them and react below:
The Army That Couldn’t Army
by Lucas, age 6, Michigan
Adventures of Evil Pancake Pants and the Question Mark Agency
by Holland, age 10, and Brightly, age 8, Utah
It was a dark night. Evil Pancake Pants was jumping around in his pink hearted underpants. Dun Dun Dun! Then Evil Pancake Pants yells out, "World domination is today!" Then he mysteriously does a back flip.
Meanwhile...
Sir Question Mark the Great and Greg, the Dog Bunny, are making a plan to stop Evil Pancake Pants. Tomorrow they will use their plan.
The next day...
Greg and Question Mark the Great get in a super high speed hot dog Lamborghini and start riding in the car. Greg sticks his tongue out the window. Than Question Mark the Great says, "Great how ya doing back there?" "Ruff ruff!" he responds.
Meanwhile...
at Evil Pancake Pants base he is doing a workout. then all of a sudden, Question Mark the Great pulls up to his base. Then Evil Pancake Pants gets into his hamburger race car.
Then they have a super fast car chase. Then Evil pancake Pants says "Yeah!" During the car chase they pass the bakery and a woman is holding bread. When they pass her, she gets twirled around and looses her bread. Then she screams "I just wanted my bread!" Eventually they get to a dead end and Evil Pancake Pants goes to jail. Then he says, "The End!"
Story Backwards The
by Calvin, age 11, Virginia
(note: a period or comma indicates the end of a backwards phrase.)
Time upon once, short for Jeff or Jeffery was name whose kid a was there. "breakfast for time!" upstairs called mom His. "Heck the what!?" said he. bed he jumped out of, dressed get to. Breakfast get to downstairs walked he. Sneakers his beneath stairs the on wood the went squeak. "Pancakes best the make you mom." Said Jeff. "okay you are?" mom his asked "no oh! day backwards was it forgot I!" "Great, oh." Jeff said. "it of best the make well as might." (Note to the story pirates: this is taking a while to type, so can you guys make the school parts and I'll just skip to the end.) School after. Dessert delicious a and dinner had he. Games video some playing and schoolwork his finishing after, went he bed. "Day backwards another be won't tomorrow least at." said he. The next day he found himself on the ceiling. "Oh no."
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