Flowers Will Not Grow Well Enough For My Mom To Like Them/The Breakdancing Knight

In part 1 of our season finale, the Story Pirates and the Evil Robot Story Pirates both arrive at StoryTellerCon. Featuring two new stories: “Flowers Will Not Grow Well Enough For My Mom To Like Them”, a song about a high stakes race to grow beautiful flowers before mom gets home from the Bahamas, written by Kendyl, a 9 year old from Indiana, and “The Breakdancing Knight”, a story told in meter about a medieval knight with some modern tricks up his armoured sleeve, written by a 12 year old from Georgia named Abel.

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Original Stories

Flowers Will Not Grow Well Enough For My Mom To Like Them

by Kendyl, age 9, Indiana

My mom gave me a list of things to do well. She was gone and on that list it said to plant the flowers in the garden. I did and then I went inside and I went to bed. And then I got ready and went outside and the flowers were all slashed and I was in trouble. My mom was going to be home in 10 days, so I was going to be in trouble. I had to think of something fast to do and for plan A, I was going to find the same flowers. I could not do that because the bill would go to my mom. I moved to plan B which was to ask my mom if I can buy them, but I couldn’t do that because I would get in trouble. I moved on to plan C which was to water and that didn’t work out. I had to move on to plan D. Plan D was to glue it together, but that will make the problem worse. I left the garden alone and then the days went to 9,8,7,6,5 and there were only 4 DAYS till my mom got home from the Bahamas. I left it how it was and the days went down to 3 DAYS. I still left it how it was and so on to 2 and 1 DAY left till my mom got home. It went to 30 minutes, so I left it. And then 20 minutes and then 10 and 5,4,3,2,1, and then I got a message that said that the plane was in a storm, so I would not have to worry. Then I got very sad. Then, I got a message that said it was not that plane. I was fine, but the flower garden was still dead. I called my dad and I said not to tell mom that the flowers had died, he did. NO!!! I am “cooked” when my mom gets home. She is so strict, and I only had about 2 hours, so I asked my dad if I could go to the store and get new flowers for the garden. He said yes and it would be fine. I will not get “cooked” by my mom.

The End

Breakdancing Knight

by Abel, age 12, Georgia

('Twas a bright spring morning, then some cool surf music played, "what does that sound?!" Yelled a random bystander. Then they saw that it was Bobby Drake, the knight (who also moonlights as a breakdancing instructor). Bobby Drake was walking along a dirt road, when he came to a small town called pastry. It was there that he met his second cousin (twice removed) Jackson Samuel the fourth. before he could talk to him, the king of the neighboring Kingdom, Mr. salty, the invincible, came to conquer them! He brought forth his… Breakdancing army! "I will only go away–"said Mr. salty–"if one of you can beat my best soldier at breakdancing!"

"We can never defeat him!" yelled a random villager. "I will!" Yelled Bobby Drake. "Who must I fight?"

"My best soldier, Johnny the awesome!"

(scene change–the breakdancing courtyard)

"By right of awesomeness," – king salty started –" johnny shall go first." (Johnny unleashes an amazing breakdancing number.)

"Your turn." Said Mr. salty.

(Bobby Drake unleashes an even better breakdancing number)

"I have been defeated!" Said Mr. salty.

THE END

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The Alien Who Decided to Visit Earth

by Penelope, age 7, New York

Ones upon a time there was an alien and he decided to visit earth so he had some training to do so he asked his human firend so he can get some training, but when he went to Earth he accidentally made a big sworm of slime that is alive when he tryed to make slime. then his hummin firend got a big sponge to suck it up. then he went to spase to throw in in the whirlpool.

Bonis: and he made 11 new firends.

We Aren’t Good At Cooking

by Oliver, age 10, Colorado

Bigfoot on the Moon

by Jolene, age 8, Texas

The Historic Time Traveling of the Snake Trying to Find Peter in the 90's (Not the Story Pirate, the Frog)

Today’s episode features a brand new story written by over a hundred different members of the Story Pirates Creator Club!

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The Clock That Can Talk

by Maggie, age 4, Arizona
Nobody owned the aquarium, so they had a competition to see who would get to own it. They had a competition to see who could grow the biggest tree the fastest. It was between a farmer and a baby. The baby's name was Googoogaga and the farmer's name was Sharkybarky because one time he was in a boat and he saw a shark who helped him because whales were trying to eat him, so multiple sharks attacked the whales.

They both went at the same time. They each had a shovel, a bucket of seeds, and 2 buckets of dirt. There were 500 judges. They started when the 500th judge, a special judge, the president of the United States, told them to start.

They planted all the seeds at once. They made a hole, dropped in the seed, covered it with dirt, watered it, and moved on to the next one. It only took 15 seconds to plant all of the seeds and for them to grow.

But there were bulls on the farm who came to eat the leaves. The baby had a Nerf gun that he used to shoot at the bulls. They ran away from the trees but charged at the baby. The baby ran away and was a good digger, so he dug a hole and went in. The bulls dug with their horns, but they couldn't catch the baby. The baby ran away and the bulls ran home.

The farmer lost the competition and got dunked in an ice pool. He said it was refreshing, but when he got out, he was an ice block and they had to nail him out. The baby won and got to own the aquarium. The baby was very smart.

The end!

The Historic Time Traveling of the Snake Trying to Find Peter in the 90's (Not the Story Pirate, the Frog)

by Creator Club

It was a long day at the cuckoo clock factory and calvin bark the snake was just putting down his tools for the day, and as we was putting down his tools he turned to his coworker and his coworker said something that jogged his memory. Fiona the Cat says: “Oh I just remembered I bought some neon gloves at the store and I lost. When I get home I’m going to find there.” It made him think about the 90’s. On the way home from work. It reminded him of the 90’s. Skateboards, Elvis, rat tails, tall socks, mixed tapes, no screens, puffy hair, disco dancers, hula hoops, dragons, grunge. His brain is on fire with the 90’s. Why is this bothering me so much? All of a sudden, he has a flashback to 1996 when he lost his pet frog Peter who always wears a hat. They decided to show up for a new baseball cap, Peter suddenly saw the biggest juiciest fly and jumped off after it and is never seen again. He’s so tormented by sadness and regret. That he decided right then and there he has to travel back in time to save his frog. He knows how to do it all of a sudden. He makes a time travel building robot. He uses a whole bunch of gears and a clock. A giant alive cuckoo clock that files to the 90’s. He’s nervous to use the time machine. HE GOES FLYING BACKWARD IN TIME. 2020 2010 2000, 1996. He’s in a mall. It’s full. And no one is on their phones. He looks across the foodcourt, he sees himself eating a pretzel and Peter the frog. He’s got to be careful so he doesn’t ruin his own future. He builds two more robots and he has them build him a simple net he takes the net up the top of a mountain and does five back flips off the mountain right in front of Peter and slams the net down over him. Young Calvin yells, "Identical twin and does two more back flips.” Old Calvin decided he needs to get the hat. The Hat is also neon and it has a cute cloud on it with a pinwheel. Before he leaves the 90’s, Old Calvin decides he needs to do this one 90’s thing. Eat a purple neon dragon poster. However, when he gets back to the future, something has changed. He can’t feel the poster any more. Peter is there. Three hours go by and the net returns catching Peter in the future. “NET!”

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The Slow Sloth

by Willa, age 7, Nebraska

Anchovy the Flying Burger

by Orion, age 11. Ohio
Once there was a Burger named Anchovy. Anchovy could fly. Oh By the way he could fly because a radioactive cat tried to eat him but spit him out. The radioactive cat's spit was also radioactive and the radiocativness made the burger able to fly. Back to the story, Anchovy was flying around when suddenly a flying golf club attacked the city! Anchovy grabbed the flying golf club and made a hole in one the golf clubs only weakness! Because he saved the day he was tired so he landed on a table. The end P.s Jeff the stickman was controlling anchovy the whole time.

The Clock That Can Talk

by Maggie, age 4, Arizona
The refrigerator and a sparkly gingerbread girl sees the clock in the kitchen. The clock starts talking to them about what time it is. They get scared.

Belinda the Bobble/Waffles

Lee explores an alternate reality where the Story Pirates never existed. Featuring two new stories: “Waffles”, a story about a girl with a mysterious vendetta against everyone’s favorite breakfast food, written by Sophia, an 8 year old from New York, and “Belinda the Bobble”, a story about a ponytail holder that defuses an ancient feud, written by a 9 year old from the UK named Imani.

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Original Stories

Belinda the Bobble

by Imani, age 11, UK

Once upon a time there was a bobble called Belinda, and she worked for Master Clawclip... or did she!

When she was just young she decided to be a clawclip, but she changed her mind because she was too flexible and when she had tried to be one, all the other Clawclips laughed at her, so she decided to spy on them!

So she dressed up as a clawclip (it worked), and she worked for Master Clawclip. But really, she was a double agent and worked for the great bobble empire.

When everyone had gone home, Belinda would sneak into Master Clawclip's office and take one special thing and go back to the Empress and give the one item to her to work out what the Clawclips would do next.

One day Belinda went into Master Clawclips office and found his diary, which had the reason of how the Great war between the Clawclips and the Bobbles had started.

The reason was, the Empress of Bobbles was meant to have a grand meeting with Master Clawclip on the Queen's head, but the Queen got Master Clawclip and another Clawclip instead of the Empress. And the Empress never forgave Master Clawclip.

As soon as Belinda had read all of the reason, she ran all the way to Master Clawclip's house, which was a grand mansion, and she banged on the door. Master Clawclip opened the door and said "Go away, it's two in the morning!!!", "Oh, it's you Belinda. As you're one of my best Clawclips, make it quick!"

Belinda took off her costume, Master Clawclip was shocked! Belinda told him everything and then said "you and the Empress have to make friends or the war will go on for ever!!!". So Master Clawclip marched all the way to the Empress' huge, grand house (which was not a mansion) and they spoke it out, and everyone was happy.

So they made cool hairstyles for everyone, and they lived happily ever after.

The End.

Waffles

by Sophia, age 8, New York

(not a true story)

My name is sophia. I hate waffles. Oh you want to know why? Well it all started when it was my birthday. I was turning five. And my mom hired a clown because when I was little I loved being funny. So the clown came. His name was Mr. Waffles. And he did a trick with some fire. But it didn’t come out really well because one of the torches fell on my birthday cake. The birthday cake then fell on my presents and they all got ruined! Everyone had to go home. I was really sad. I had really been looking forward to my birthday. And from then on, I hated waffles, especially when I heard the word, Mr. Waffles.

I had had enough of waffles. I wanted everyone to hate waffles. So I put up signs in my school. The signs said: “Waffles are bad for people’s minds! They make people’s brains soggy like syrup!” I decided to make a vote for the whole school. If most people do not like waffles, then we will banish waffles from the world! Ha ha ha! (cough cough) Oh sorry that wasn’t supposed to happen.

The next day I went to school. To my amazement, everyone was munching on waffles! I fell backwards. I never saw so much monstrosity! I sighed a big sigh and fell onto the floor. Everyone was throwing waffles everywhere. There was syrup on the ground. I felt like I was sticking to the ground. There were flying waffles everywhere. And kids were using some as frisbees. One popped right into my mouth! I chewed. And swallowed. And and and it was amazing! The end.

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What to do when your grandfather turns into an evil French lobster

by Annabelle, age 12, Australia

What happens when your grandfather turns into a evil French lobster
He locks your acuall grandfather in a closet
He chases you around refuses to cook you seafood
He grows a long moostach (said how it's written)
He twirls his long moostach
He puts you in time out and you have to sit in the tv room but only watch documentaries on the marvelous grouth of sea algi
To defeat your French evil grandfather lobster you have to;
Rip his moostach of and go tell Granny he hogged the TV and stole biscuits from the jar
Granny will go tell him of and the French evil grandfather lobster will feel threatened by Granny and run away
You now have permission to go untie your none French totally normal lobster free grandfather from the closet
You can all be happy now but just please I'm begging you don't eat lobster or the French evil grandfather lobster will come back, don't ask me why, because I don't know.

The One Flying Penguin

by Ryan, age 7, Massachusetts

The One Flying Penguin (accompanying illustrations attached!)

This is Pip Pip the penguin. "Hi"

He can fly, but he can't fly accurate. "AHHHHHHHH"

He is also a super hero. He saves the day.

And goes back to his base.

He looks at his security cameras for crime.

And he goes to fight crime.

The end.

The Haunted House

by Arlandria, age 8, South Dakota

Hair Hospital/The Real Reason Why Dinosaurs Went Extinct (feat. Hari Kondabolu)

The Story Pirates visit a roadside cherry stand with a strange proprietor (Hari Kondabolu). Featuring two new stories: “Hair Hospital”, a song about a place where you can receive both health care and hair care, written by two friends from California named Aviva and June, and “The Real Reason Why Dinosaurs Went Extinct”, a story about a bunch of scientists who don’t know their facts and end up in a pit full of spicy stuff as a result, written by an 11 year old from Germany named Fritz. 

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Hair Hospital

by Aviva, Age 12, and June, Age 10, California

Reporter 1. : Has this ever happened to you?!

Lady : I have a broken leg, and a hair crisis! I can’t drive to the hair salon

because of my foot, and I can’t go to the hospital because of my hair crisis. What am I going to doooooooo!!!!!!

Reporter 2. : Then you should come down to the… Ummmm.

Rep. 1 : The what?

Rep. 2 : Let me just check my email.

3 hours later

Rep. 2 : Hair Hospital

Rep. 1 : Were still on that?

Rep. 2 : The only hospital that takes care of your injuries and hair at the same time.

Warning Person: Warning, be wary of Lice, Fleas, Bird Poop, Short Staff, and Mad Scientists. For more info and the liability waver contact 555-555-5555

Lady: The End

Story Pirates adaptation composed by Eli Bolin and Mike Pettry

The Real Reason Why Dinosaurs Went Extinct

by Fritz, age 11, Germany

Fancy accent guy: Today we will talk about the Real Reason why Dinosaurs went extinct, but first: why do you think Dinosaurs went extinct?

Person 1: They took a Space ship to Space but then Somebody stuck some Magnetic stuff on to the space ship and a meteorite was attracted to it and they fell in Love. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut the space ship was stupposed to be destroyed!

then the meteorite hit the Dinosaurs and they went extinct.

Fancy accent guy: wrong! now you get dunked in the spicy stuff pit and need to eat it muahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Person 1: Noooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fancy accent guy: next!

Person 2: Ummmm the thing is i kind of don't want to say the anser any more, soooooo...

fancy accent guy: wrong and in the pit byeeeeee.

300.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 dunks later.

Person 300.000.000.000.000.000.000.002: im Person 300.000.000.000.000.000.000.002

fancy accent guy: coooooooooooooorect now you win 300.000.000.000.000.000.000.002 €

a while later

fancy accent guy: so earlyer when i said that the correct anser was that guys name i lied it actually isnt the anser is that they arent (long pause) theyl come for you just kidding or am i? dun dunn duuuuuuuuuuun

the end

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Robot Haircut

by Ethan, age 6, Canada

The Soggy Sandwich

by Quinn, age 12, California

ARE: You hungry?

ARE: You thirsty?

GET: The soggy sandwich!

The soggy sandwich package comes with 1) a sandwich, 2) a bag of water, and

3) instructions.

Step 1: Take out the sandwich

Step 2: Dunk the sandwich in the water

Step 3: Leave it there for 8 hours

Step 4: After 8 hours go by, take the sandwich out

Step 5: Eat and drink your newly completed soggy sandwich!

The soggy sandwich comes in PB&J, BLT, Turkey and cheese, and Grilled

Cheese

Disclaimer: The soggy sandwich may be hazardous to your health.

The End

The Book That Read Itself

by Jasper, age 7, Washington

The Attack of the Dino Nuggets/The Case of the Missing Art

Rolo and Baby With a Mustache make funny bumper stickers. Featuring two new stories: “The Attack of the Dino Nuggets”, a story about a magic juice box that causes everyone’s favorite lunch food to grow huge, written by Zach, a 12 year old from Colorado, and “The Case of the Missing Art”, a story a museum heist with a twist that you have to hear to believe, written by an 8 year old from Washington, D.C. named Nigel. Peter and Lee also read more stories written by kids in the latest installment of Story Love.

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The Attack of the Dino Nuggets

by Zach, Age 12, Colorado

One day I was eating Dinosaur chicken nuggets and I accidentally spilled some magic juice box (MJB). The MJB splashed on the dino nuggets on the plate and the dino nuggets started to grow first 1 foot then, 5 ft then, 20 ft and then 60 ft then it came to life their mouths were dripping with ketchup then the dino nuggets all ran into the backyard oh no what did I do

(In the backyard)

What can I do? They are destroying my backyard Dad! Mom! I spilled the MJB on dino nuggets. (Dad) Oh no not again. (Mom) what should we do? (kid) I know to the lab

(The next day at the lab)

We made it. We finally did it. We made a super potion now to drink it. Bark! Hey! give that back, don't drink it, Benson!!! (sounds of drinking) wow Benson you can fly now hey you are super dog. Suddenly, the TV turned on, breaking news giant dinosaur nuggets are attacking the city time to go super dog to the city

(At the city)

let's do this, benson laser eyes (pew pew) “AHHHH!” screamed the dinosaur nuggets. “Run!” not so fast super dog attack.The dog is eating us noooooo. We did it super dog. “hey its the Mayor Banana pants” Great job super dog, We all thank you for saving our city from the Monstrous chicken nuggets. burp! That was good, Hey! you can talk Benson um……. The End (Benson!)

The Case of the Missing Art

by Nigel, age 8, Washington, DC

One day at the Swellville Museum, a thief crashed through a window (sound of glass shattering). The guard on duty gets suspicious and comes towards the noise—only to get trapped in a nacho cheese pit!!

Thief: “Catch ya later, Chip”

Guard: “That’s not my name”

Thief: “You sure look like a Chip to me cheesehead”

As he grabs the Mona Lisa and jumps out of the museum window into the night. The next morning Sheriff Rex (the dog detective) pays a visit to the museum after hearing that 90% of the art was gone from the museum.

Sheriff Rex: What happened here?

Guard: Mff meit moje mar mat (with his mouth covered in nacho cheese)

Sheriff Rex: Huh? (scratching his head before licking the cheese off the guards mouth)

Guard: I said the thief stole even more art

Sherriff Rex: Gasped “How?!

Guard: I don’t know , but I have a plan…psst pssst psssst (the guard whispers in Sheriff Rex’s ear)

By morning the thief was being interrogated by Sheriff Rex and the guard confessing his crime.

Thief: Yeah I did it (he said with a sad voice)…I only did it because I wanted attention and to make new friends.

Sheriff Rex: That’s no excuse, but I get how hard it can be to make new friends. (tears in his eyes)

“Yeah!!” said 99% of the people listening outside. Then the guard appeared and hit everyone with liquid nitrogen and helped the thief out, freeing him.

Thief: The Art Thief strikes again MWAHAHA (cackles the thief and guard together)

THE END

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The Unicorn That Puts Her Jammies on in the Night and in the Morning

by Eva, age 5, Wisconsin

Dirty Time

by Liam, age 8, Pennsylvania

Mustard Ice Cream

by Alaska and Calliope, age 9, Tennessee

Once there was a girl named Jewel and her mornings always started the same way…”Ah good morning Gemma, my flying caticorn. Let's see whats on the news” said jewel. “This just in” said the news person “mustard ice cream is STILL the biggest thing on the planet. “Hurry gemma” said jewel “we have to get mustard ice cream before it sells out like it always does!”. So she and Gemma, the flying caticorn, went to the mustard ice cream store. When they got there not only was it sold out but they had raised the price to 100 dollar cents (it's 100 cents and 100 dollars at the same time). Jewel was very sad that her and gemma the caticorn could never get mustard ice cream. So when they got home they decided to make a plan. If they couldn't get mustard ice cream anywhere on their planet they would go to every planet ever until they got some. So they started their journey. First they went to Gemma's home planet called snuffleufugus where Gemma communicated with the other flying caticorns; they only had PICKLE ice cream there. They tried pickle ice cream but they just knew that it wasn't as good as mustard ice cream. Next they went to planet dollmania where they were only dolls who told them that everyone on their planet hated ice cream. Finally they went to planet mustopolis and they had all the mustard ice cream that had sold out on their planet and they were selling it for 500 dollar cents. So they stole it. And ate it allllllll. The next day they had a big tummy ache

THE END

Fashion Snail/My Impossible Vest (feat. Elyse Meyers)

Meghan and Rolo meet a theater maker (Elyse Myers) who changed the world. Featuring two new stories: “Fashion Snail”, a song about the world’s newest and slowest fashion model, written by Robin, a 9 year old from New Zealand, and “My Impossible Vest”, a story about a talking vest who is just trying to make it to the altar on time, written by an 8 year old from North Carolina named Margot. Peter and Lee also read more stories written by kids in the latest installment of Story Love.

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Fashion Snail

by Robin, Age 9, New Zealand

Once upon a time there was a snail named Robin who dreamt of

being a Fashion model!

She said to herself one day and you're be a Fashion model!

One day she found a bottle of sparkling blue nail Polish!

From that day on she fashion snail do do do do!

Fashion snail do do de do!

THE END!!!!

Our adaptation of “Fashion Snail” was composed by Rachel Wenitsky and Ned Risely

My Impossible Vest

by Margot, age 8, North Carolina

Once my mom got me a new vest from the store. When she gave it to me I noticed something... It had a hole!!! So I put a pebble in it. Pop! Ahh! So I put a pebble and stitches on it. Pop! Rip! Ahhhh! So I put a pebble, stitches, and glue on it. Pop! Rip! Boop! Ahhhhhh! So I put a pebble, stitches, glue and tape on it. Pop! Rip! Boop! Zoom! Ahhhhhhhh! So I put a pebble, stitches, glue, tape and another vest! Pop! Rip! Boop! Zoom! Poof! Ahhhhhhhhhh!
The End.
Ps it wanted to marry a lemon

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The Time I Went to Summer Camp

by Liam, age 10, UK

My name is bla bla bla chit chat doodle pants. This is about the time I went to summer camp. I live on NONSENSE lane. I speak Gibberish, and tomorrow is the day I go to summer camp! Also I am an evil mad scientist and I tap dance and play the flute. Also my shoes are made of mud. I was in the car for ten hours then the car turned into a turkey that breathed fire. We flew to summer camp. When I got there I went to my cabin and inside I found a monkey made out of marshmallows and his name was JEFF! everything in my cabin is made of cacti and my bed is made of clouds and when I lay on it it turned me into a pig made out of pillow fluff but I can stand on my hind legs and now I can understand JEFF now when he sings "Ring around the Rosey! everyone at summer camp went to play soccer in a pool I scored a point. JEFF scored a point. THE END!Jackson and His Dancing Pants

The Alpaca Wearing Sunglasses

by Isabelle (Izzy), age 8, Korea South

Once upon a time, there was an alpaca wearing sunglasses who lived on a farm. When the residents came by, they all screamed and put their hands in the air and stomped their feet.

"It's an alpaca wearing sunglasses! Make as much noise as possible to alert the farmer!” But the farmer knew about this. He always tried to take the sunglasses off the alpaca, but he kept getting new ones somehow. And so, the farmer set off on a quest to find out where he got the sunglasses. The alpaca liked his sunglasses, but there was one secret nobody knew about the alpaca.

He could talk!

It was incredible but they never found out, so yeah. At nighttime, the alpaca would go into the farmer’s bedroom to get the sunglasses back. Then he would go back to sleep as if nothing happened. The farmer thought the alpaca talk for some reason, so he put up security cameras. And he was right! The alpaca could talk!

"Wow these sunglasses are amazeballs!" said the alpaca.

The farmer continued on his mission.

"Hmmmmmm, how do I find out why my alpaca wears sunglasses? Hmmmmmm. Mmmmmmmmmm...”

So he asked everyone he met, "Do you know why my alpaca wears sunglasses?”

“No,” most would respond.

“Oh, I see,” the farmer would say as he went on.

Some would just ignore him.

“Hey you!... OK"

“You there!...Alright"

He asked literally everyone he crossed paths with, but no one knew...Then he heard a sound.

"Wooo-ooo you-ooo shooouuld let the mystery go-ooo!"

"NO!" said the farmer in a sharp tone. "No, I won't!"

"Ohhh theeen I caaaan't heeeelp you-ooo!"

Then the farmer was drawn to his destiny—like literally.

"Ahhhhhhh!" he cried. He let the alpaca go and he told all his customers about the alpaca wearing sunglasses.

“And you know what?!,” said the alpaca. "The end!!"

How to Turn a Piranha Plant into a Football

by Daxton, age 6, California

If you are in your backyard and you see a piranha plant you might want to turn it into a football. How turn a piranha plant into a football. First you feed it a football. Next you tame it. Last it turns into a football! Thats how you turn a piranha plant into a football.

The Kid That Has a Bad Name/CatsNews

Meghan learns to drive. Featuring two new stories: “The Kid That Has a Bad Name,” a story about what life is like when your name is ‘Do You Like Hotdogs?’, written by Emet, a 9 year old from California, and “CatsNews”, a peek behind the scenes of the #1 source for up to the minute news about cats, written by a 6 year old from Massachusetts named Autumn. Peter and Lee also read more stories written by kids in the latest installment of Story Love. 

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Illustration by Camila Franklin

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Original Stories

The Kid That Has a Bad Name

by Emet, Age 9, California

There was a little boy and his name was do you like hotdogs.
And now he is in school 🏫 "hi do you like hotdogs"
Said my friend" of course I do" I said
" No I'm just saying hi. Do you like hot dogs? Is your name right?"
"Oh" I said
I have to go. Bye. I said
But school's not over oh he couldn't hear me because he already went well bye. Hope you have fun at home
My friend said
At home hi Mom, I'm home I said
But school's not over my mom said
Bye have to go into my room I said
Wait for me. Oh man, he locked the door my mom said
Good thing I always have a key 🗝️ My mom said as she unlocked my door 🚪
What's wrong my sweetie, my mom said
I hate my name I said
Why do you hate your name my mom said
Because it doesn't make sense like everyone says my name. But I keep confusing it because I always because I always say 😅 of course! I love hot dogs
Even though they're actually just saying my name 📛
But your name makes you special my mom said
Oh I get it I said
Good now please go back to school my mom said
Hahaha 😂 fine I said
Bye. ! My mom said
I said bye back 👋🏻
Don't forget your backpack my mom said
Thank you I said
You're back my friend said
I finally realized that my name makes me special, I said
The end the principal said
Principal butt face what are you doing hereThe Birth of Soup

CatsNews

by Autumn, age 6, Massachusetts

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This Mirror is DEFINITELY Not a Mirror

by Madelyn, age 10, UK

I am Timmy Johnny Alfie Robert the thirty nine thousandth five hundred and sixty fifth and I an also a scuba diving evil wizard professor. I can see a mirror in a back room in my lair. I touch it and when I look into the mirror, my finger doesn’t touch its reflection. That’s weird. The mirror turns into ice cream and melts before I can lick it. It reveals a bright pink door. There is a sign on the door saying: come in here all you scuba diving professors. I go in and I start falling down, down, down... AHHHHHHHH! He he he.

Jackson and His Dancing Pants

by Cameron, age 6, North Carolina

Jackson has dancing pants. He likes his dancing pants very much. One time his dancing pants were on fire because a dragon blew him with fire!!! But a random lady dumped a bucket of water on his head. Then the building turned into a crocodile and he had to fight him. He got out a sword and killed the crocodile and he was on the newspaper. He has a pet mouse named Joey. The End.

The Spider Who Got Lost

by Coen, age 6, Oregon

Super Ant

Written by a 8 year old from Tennessee named Nathan. 

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Super Ant

by Nathan, age 8, Tennessee

Hi there, my name is Paxton, and I'm gonna tell you about the time I met the Super Ant. It all started on an average Saturday morning when I wanted some pie.

Paxton: Hey Mom, can I have some pie?

Mom:Sure hun, I'm just cooking it… uh….? There's an ant on my pie.

Super Ant:Have no fear, Miss Paxton's mom, for I am Super Ant! What is your problem?

Mom:Well, Super Ant, I believe you've come to the wrong house, for me and my son Paxton have no problem.

Super Ant:Or do you?? Check the bathroom.

(Creeeak. Super ant runs away and comes back real quick.)

Paxton: I just came out of it. Nothing wrong in there.

Super Ant:I can sense that there is a criminal stealing stuff from the bathroom at the moment, so you didn't see him, Paxton.

Mom:Okay, let's go! (Pause). Oh, Super Ant you're right! The toilet is
missing!

Paxton: wait Super Ant did you always have a toilet on your back?

Super Ant: Fine you caught me, but you still gotta catch me! (Open the door, close door)(panting out of breath and running away).

Paxton: Hang on he’s an ant. He’s fast compared to his size, but slow in comparison to people.

Mom: Oh yeah, got ya super Ant.

Super Ant: fine but I still got away with a piece of bread!

Super Ant: The… (panting and running) … end… (panting running, panting running panting, running, panting running).

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The Weird Skyscraper

by Dylan, age 8, UK

Hello,

I’m a capybara

Specifically, one that sells skyscrapers.

Anyway, I had a wild day today

So..

I had a customer come in today. He said he selled computers, but he had a metallic look. Anyway, he said he wanted the empire state building. I thought that was a normal idea until he offered me the best deal ever.

A LITERAL ORANGE!

No, your ears aren’t deceiving you.

A plump, juicy, fresh orange. Picked straight from Spain an sent in a frigate plane.

You know what I had to say...

Yes, big yes, lots of yes, happy yes.

So, I hit the airport and booked myself a first-class seat on Capy-air-a. The airline for capybaras. Obviously.

So, I calmly removed the skyscraper

Like it was an everyday thing, of course.

But then what I found under was better than what you humans call “chocolate”

You guessed it, ORANGES!

And the only logical thing to do was to...

Nomm nomm (mouth full) oh, sorry. (Gasp!)

I dropped It! Oh well, here I am, skyscrapers falling everywhere and nyc in destruction.

You know what to do,

Fly all the way back to cardiff, the capital, reclaim my sweet orange and eat 18 pounds of beef.

Great.

Too Many Dogs

by Lorelai, age 6, Canada

The Goose Mayor

by Rory, age 9, Georgia
There was a talking goose who ran for mayor and won. The goose was very smart. He was a house pet in the town of Waterville. When the goose was elected, he made sure everyone had an indoor pool.