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Welcome to Squigly's Writing Corner! Squigly has received a number of literary works from his friends and would like to share them with you. You can submit your writing too. Look for new postings August 1, 2009!
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The Magic Pencil
One dull, cold day Scarlett and Jordan Bibby sat on their beds, reading the only two books they had.
"Kids! there is a parcel for you!" their mother called from the kitchen.
The Bibby family was extremely poor, and an occasional parcel brightened their day. They ran as fast as their legs could go, snatched the parcel and ripped it open.It was from their Uncle Ben who lived all the way in America but loved to spoil them. Jordan opened his gift first. Wrapped in golden printed wrapping paper was a pencil sharpener, with a really nice purple and blue design on the silver top. He was very excited, but a little bit disappointed, as he had no pencils to use with it.
Next, Scarlett opened her gift, sealed in a gift bag- pink with golden swirls. In the bag was an eraser, with the same design as the sharpener had. Both kids were confused, until their Mother handed them another gift bag. Inside was a single pencil, again it had the same blue and purple design. As soon as they saw it, Scarlett and Jordan grabbed all three gifts and rushed to their bedroom, where they had some paper bags to draw on.
Being very polite, Jordan let Scarlett use the pencil first. Scarlett had a huge smile on her face as she drew lots of mouthwatering food. She knew that her parents could only afford the food that they already had, but she wanted to draw them anyway. She sat for about ten seconds, staring at the cheese pizza she had drawn. She and Jordan didn't know that the pencil contained a tad of magic..... very suddenly, Scarlett gasped. In front of her, where she had drawn the treats stood a plate of those treats!
In the next few years, the Bibby family were the richest people on the earth. Scarlett and Jordan had drawn money, food, clothes, and so many other things- even things they didn't need.
Today, they are grown ups, living in a 9-storey mansion with their own kids, 6 dogs, 4 cats, 3 ponies, 8 hamsters, 5 turtles, 1 talking parrot, 90 fish, and about 60 other pets.
Obviously, they lived happily ever after.
Emma, age 11 , Australia
The Magic Stone
Once upon a time an alien came to explore the solar system. He kept a magic stone on the earth, then disappeared. The astronaut who came after the alien took it and went back to the earth. After two orthree minutes, the astronaut died and the stone disappeared right up in to the space with a clashing sound and the alien laughed.
Ruhini, age 8, Sri Lanka
The Princess and The Dragon
Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess than there ever was. She had pretty golden hair with a green tiara with pink, lillac and blue jewels in it. She was 16 and she lived in a palace near the woods. Her name was Darby and her favourite dress was a sparkly pink and blue one. She lived with her prince, Jeremy and her cat Sophie. She had a father, the king but her mother had died when Darby was 5. One morning, she put on her purple hood and her yellow gown on. "Jerils, dad, I'm just out in the woods. I wont be long, I promise." Darby said. She asked her servants if they would open the drawbridge for her and then she skipped out into the woods. She started singing and her friends, the woodland creatures sang along with Darby most of the time but they did not sing with her today. Darby felt lonley when they didn't sing with her.
"Grrrrrr! wanna be friends, I'm lonely?" The creature said in a sad voice.
"Okay," Darby said and they both lived happily ever after.Kaila, age 9, New Zealand
One Monday morning I went to school and felt like it was just going to be a normal day. My teacher, Mrs. Roy, came into the class and stared talking about 4th grade. All of a sudden the class phone rang. Mrs. Roy said for me to report to the principal's office. So I went to the office and my principal started to whisper. She said, "I need your help on a secret mission. Go find a person called HQ and ask him these questions." So I found HQ and asked him the three questions. To all of the questions he ansered ok, ok, ok. HQ wrote down the answers to the questions my principal asked. So I went back to school and gave the principal HQ's answers. Before I left school to tell my parents everything I did she said, "Don't share what you did today." I started to say something but she said I'm trusting you so don't make me regret it. So I went home as if it was just a normal day in school.
Stephanie, age 9, USA
One morning I was getting up and I saw a dog. It was a yorky mixed with a Shih-tzu. It was so cute. It had blue eyes and black and gray so I called him Pepper. Before you knew it we were best friends forever until she ran away, since then I think about her everyday. I look at her pictures everyday and I miss her very much. This story is real.
Amirah, age 9, USA
One day Jaden was jogging down the street when something caught her eye. It was a pink dog with yellow spots. She thought to herself what a beautiful dog. Her two favorite colors were pink and yellow. She thought she would show the dog to her father. She brought the dog to her father. He said, "Maybe you should show it to Squigly." She thought that was a wonderful idea. She went to Squigly's Playhouse and showed him.
He said, "How wonderful! You found Fifi. Thank you very much." He gave her 1,000,000,000 dollars.
Although Jaden was sad she couldn't keep the dog she was happy to have so much money.Courtney, age 11, America
For some reason when I was sitting next to Georgia at lunch she shivered and then suddenly started crying. I asked what was wrong, but she didn't answer. A few minutes later, she did. "This morning, my mom told me that my dog was very sick and she wouldn't be able to live. She said that at 11:00 she'd have my dad bring her to the doctor and have her get a shot which would make her die. She was like my best friend and now she's gone," she sobbed.
"Oh, I feel sorry for you." I patted her on the back. "Did she say that you could buy another one?" I asked her.
"Yeah, but we can't find any place to get it."
"Wait," I said. "My dog had 6 pups that we're selling and there's one left! Would you like to come over to my house and buy it?"
"Sure," she said.The bell rang and it was a half day, so we all went home. Georgia went home with me. She got to see the puppy and her mom let her buy it. And it sure was cute! She named it Patience. A few years later, when we were ending Middle School, she told me that Patience was her best friend. I wondered if she remembered her first dog until she said that Patience wasn't any better than Chocolate, her first dog. And I was okay with that.
Ashlea, age 10, USA
Bob & Otto
One very warm day, Bob called Otto over to play. "Sure! I'll come over to play!" said Otto. "See you!"
Now Bob lives in a tree and Otto lives in a hole 7 inches from Bob. The reason Otto comes to play is that Bob has an ice cream machine. Knock, knock. "That must be Otto," said Bob. "I'll be right there." Bob grabbed the cookies out of the oven, then opened the door. "Hi Otto!"
"Hi Bob!" said Otto.
"I baked a ton of cookies for us to eat!" said Bob.
"Yay!" Said Otto. "Let me just grab th... what?!?!"
"OK, who ate all the cookies? asked Bob.
"Look Bob, a cookie crumb path that leads out the window!" said Otto.
"Otto, you're a genius!" said Bob.
"Could you go and tell my mom that?" asked Otto.
"Otto, focus," said Bob.
"Right," said Otto. "Let's Go."Twelve minutes later:
"Look! The path stops at this house!" said Otto.
"Let's investigate," said Bob.
"We looked everywhere in the house and no cookies!" said Bob
"What about the hidden door?"
"Huh?"
"Let's go in," suggested Otto.
Whooosh! Wee! Whump! "Ouch!" they both hollered.
"There they are!" said Bob.
"And a weird shadow," said Otto.
"Hi, I'm Berry. I'm a racoon." said the thing (a.k.a. Berry).
"Why did you take our cookies?" asked Bob.
"Because I was hungry and I had no food. Then I smelled your yummy cookies, so I too them."
"Oh," said Otto.
"Why don't we all share the cookies?" suggested Bob.
"Yeah!" said both Otto and Berry. So, they all ate cookies together.Brian, age 8, USA
The Little Animal
Once upon a time there was a girl called Mary. She had no pets and no toys. What she really wanted was a dog. One day she was walking along the coast and gasped as she saw a dog!
Kiri, age 8, England
How The Giraffe Got Its Long Neck
Long, long ago all giraffes had no spots. There was a giraffe that wanted cotton candy and the next day she saw a cotton candy store and she went in the store and asked the manager and he said absolutely because he was so kind. So she started the cotton candy machine and her head got stuck and it started pulling her and her neck was ten feet long. The next day she went back in the store and asked for cotton candy and the manager made it for her because he felt bad for her and to this day giraffes have long necks.
Courtney, age 11, USA
My day with an Alien
I was playing kickball with my friends from girl-scouts. I was up to kick. My best friend Macy was cheering me on with my other best friend Kailey. The ball came rolling to me and I kicked as hard as I could. It went so far I decided to run to second base. Abby was up (one of my friends) but before she had the chance to kick the ball a space ship came hurtling towards us. We all scattered around so we wouldn't get hit. Before the space ship hit the earth it stopped five feet away from me. Right before my eyes a beautiful young girl stepped out of the space ship. She had strawberry blonde hair and bright green eyes. The girl wore a yellow dress that went down to her knees and a necklace made of jade stone. She came walking out of the space ship toward me. She was paler than I thought. The girl was very small almost as small as an eight year old. "Are you Melissa?" she asked me.
"Y-yes," was all I could say at the moment.
"Ok well there's something I need to ask you, do you mind showing me two of your states, any states you want." She asked me...again.
All I could do was nod my head. Soon I got the guts to ask her something, "Um, what's your name?"
Her reply was,"Alena, my name is Alena."
I smiled, now that I knew her name I was more comfortable being with her. We really got to know each other, and we were talking as if we knew each other all our lives. I grabbed my bag and walked with her to her space ship. Alena gave me a tour.The space ship was the coolest place I've seen since I went to the turtle hospital in North Carolina. The walls were lime green and the floors were orange and yellow. There was all sorts of buttons and switches. I guessed it was the controls to the ship.
"So where to first?"Alena asked me.
"How about I tell you about New Jersey first. New Jersey is the garden state because they are good with vegetation (plants). This state is also one of the safest states from natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornados, and tsunamis."
Alena looked amazed, "Wow that is really cool. So if I decide to live here in New Jersey I will be safe from natural disasters?" She asked me.
"Yup! Now the next and last state I will tell you about is New York, also known as the Big Apple. Here you can go shopping for hours and there will still be tons of new shops to go to. New York and New Jersey share one of my favourite buildings in the world...The Statue Of Liberty! It is one of our symbols to remind us that we are a free country and that we welcome any immigrant who wants to be part of our nation without any fight, just like I welcome you to be part of our nation!"
"So where are you going to live?" I asked Alena.
"I choose...New York!" She said and that was the final time we saw each other and I was so glad that I had helped Alena. She will be one of my best friends forever!Kayla, age 11, USA
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