Stories

Welcome to our Library of Stories. Please click on the story title to read Chapter 1.
These are collaborative story openings created by school groups and community groups.
Each participant writes their own Chapter 2.

A Building Catastrophe

Bunscoil Bheann Mhadágain, R5 A Building Catastrophe Artwork by Sinead Farry - Bob the pink sloth falls from his ladder towards Google-Eyes the Big Purple Turtle
22nd September 2022

Bob was doing his job and his boss told him he had to go up high to fix a window frame. While Bob was climbing up the building to fix the window he started getting scared because he was terrified of heights. When he was on his way up he turned a different shade of pink. It was a bright fluorescent pink! When he changes his emotion the shade of his pink fur changes.

Bob fell off the ladder but luckily he caught on to the edge with his big sloth claws. However, when he slipped free Google-Eyes, his big purple turtle friend, went under him. Bob landed on his shell and slid off.

Bob said “Thanks for saving me!” Then he turned a bright shade of green because he was about to vomit. He was sick all over Google-Eyes’s shell.

Google-Eyes said, “Thanks for the vomit.”

Bob got back up and his boss said, “You’ve put that window on sideways. Get up there and fix that!”

A Dark Turn

St. Oliver Plunkett Primary School, P5
21st September 2022

Domino the chippie man found the dog in an alleyway behind Bridie’s Chippie in Strathfoyle. Every day, the dog came back to the chippie and Domino gave him some food. They created a bond. 

Dog was born with no eyes, so his mum didn’t want him, so he became a stray...

Lily, Snowball the Rabbit and the Amazing Monkey

Afterschool clubs of Windsor Women’s Centre and Footprints Women’s Centre
20th September 2022

Lily was at the animal rescue centre because she was looking for a monkey. She really wanted a monkey to annoy her dad. But there were no monkeys left because they had shipped them to an Animal Centre in Hawaii. They were too cold where they lived in Iceland. 

Since there were no monkeys left, she walked and swam to Hawaii. When she got there, there were no monkeys left because they had all sold out. She went into the forest and tackled a Gorilla to get a baby monkey. On her way to find a gorilla, she got a scratch on her face from the trees. It was really sore...

Katie's Adventure

St. Oliver Plunkett Primary School, P4Katie's Adventure - Black Cat in Woods - artwork by Eileen Neill
Tuesday 20th September 2022

One day a cat called Katie went outside to play in the park. She decided she was going to fly to the park but she didn’t know what she was going to go on first. Katie was a magic cat who could fly and cast spells. She saw her friend at the park and they went on the slide.

“Let’s go to the woods,” said her friend, Whiskers. Whiskers was a black cat who loved to climb.

Katie said, “Okay, but we have to come back before noon.”

“Why?” asked Whiskers.

“Because, at noon, lots of people come to hunt cats in the woods.”

The Wishing Stone

St. Bernard's Primary School, P6
15th September 2022

Flower slapped Winnie the donkey in the face! Flower did this because Winnie accidentally stepped on one of Flower’s petals.  Then Flower found a wishing stone right beside them and it didn’t work. (You have to be nice for the wishing stone to work.)...

Chickens on the Run

St. Bernard's Primary School, P6
14th September 2022

It was dark, and it was a stormy night. They were gone! Chuckle Chicken’s family had disappeared from the world. He went out to find his family but got struck by lightening instead. He gained a superpower when he got struck. He never felt the same again. He raised his wing and electricity shot out. Chuckles went back to bed that night in his coup and thought it was just a dream...

Potato Wars

St. Bernard's Primary School, P6
13th September 2022

Once upon a time there was a happy potato called Jeremy who was half eaten. You might be wondering why he was half eaten, nobody knows – except Jeremy of course! It was night and he was sleeping in his cave, he was on the Island of Ireland when the Famine was happening. He was running away from people trying to eat him during the Famine when he found the cave. He was too scared to leave the cave but once he did he met his friend Sally the Sweet potato.

Sally was acting a bit strange. “Yesterday you trapped me in a glass jar!” said Jeremy. Sally was getting very jealous of Jeremy’s girlfriend and one day the ex-girlfriend disappeared. Then the next day Sally admitted she was an evil witch who could make food disappear into a boiling lake AKA a pot. Before she turned them into food she trapped them in the jars.

After living in the jar for a week, Jeremy finally managed to push the jar open...

Transformations

Scoil an Droichid, R6
8th September 2022

There once was a girl called Angelie who got bit by a spider!

She woke up in the middle of the night and she felt like something was wrong. She looked in the mirror and screamed...

The Mystery of the Lost Teddy

Augher Primary School, P7
7th September 2022
A 100 Years Project workshop

It was evening time in Maggy Smith’s cottage. She couldn’t hear very well because of her old age. She used to run a bakery, but it burnt down in 1901. Maggy Moo’s Bakery was very popular and full of home baked goods. Her speciality were scones, soda bread and Victoria sandwich cakes. Children loved going after school to buy buns. They tried to get there quick before they sold out. The first two children to arrive got them for free! 

Horseriding

By the Afterschool clubs of Windsor Women’s Centre and Footprints Women’s centre
6th September 2022

Jessica was sitting in her front garden when her best friend April came to visit. April said to Jessica “Do you want to go horse riding?”

They went to April’s house to get money for their horse riding lessons that were happening in Botanic Gardens. When they got there, there was a very pretty golden tabby cat. April said: “Look at that pretty little tabby cat, let’s take it home..”

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