Illustrating Children's Stories

Featured Author & Illustrator

Gerald McDermott
  

 

Student Work:

THE SNAKE AND THE
WATER TURTLE

Maria H.

One day a snake saw a turtle swimming in a river and went where the turtle was and said to the turtle if he would please help him go to the other side because he didn’t know how to swim and therefore he would sink trying to go to the other side. The turtle did not seemed very convinced with the favour that the snake asked him and therefore he told him that he was not very sure because he was sure that when they were in the lake he will bite him and will kill him with his poison. The snake replied and told him that if he did that the will both die and he was not going to kill himself so the turtle, still not sure of what he was doing, got the snake in his back and swam. When they where half way through the turtle notices a pinch in his leg and knew that the snake had bite him and started making effect. The turtle surprised and annoyed asked the snake why did he do that, that now they were both going to sink and die and the snake replied that he did not do it on purpose it was just his nature.






RABBIT ON THE SKY

Alex M.

Once upon a time, in a far away land, the sun shined upon the rabbit hamlet. There lived a wise rabbit called Zomo, who always dreamed of travelling to the clouds and above. He always used to smoke from his magic pipe and had visions of the happiness of Cloudland. One day, while he was walking through the hills, jumping and jumping, he found two clouds who told him about Cloudland, and how to get there. He had to go on a journey to the dark forest of Pramuk, land of the wolves, and confront the dangers to enter the magic gate and get to Cloudland. After sneaking through the forest, and dodging a few wolves and spiders, he found the magic gate. Before going through the gate, a low voice said “Zomo the rabbit, before you enter, you must answer a riddle.” “It can walk with four legs when he’s small, two legs when he’s an adult, and three legs when he’s old, what is it?” Zomo answered “Humans,” and it was certainly correct! Finally he went through, and got eternal life, and lived in the clouds forever and after. In the present days we can find peculiar shapes of animals on the sky, and sometimes, we can see the rabbit Zomo!

THE TURTLE'S PROBLEM

Jorge P.

There was a little turtle that was looking for his family, but couldn’t find them. He asked the lion but he didn’t know where they were. Then he asked the eagle, and she said she would look for them. She flew away rapidly to look for the turtle’s family from the air. The turtle waited for a long time, until the eagle returned and said that she saw them and were two days away, but if the eagle carried him, in twenty minutes he could be with his family. So flying they left and finally arrived to where the turtle’s family was, so everyone felt happy.









   
I WONDER

Beatriz S. & Maria Amparo

Once upon a time a young lion lived in the jungle. He was the king of the jungle. This lion had a lot of friends but he also had a problem, he changed his mind very easily. Every time someone asked him a question he was not able to answer because he didn’t know what decision to make. At the beginning his friends were able to tolerate him but in time they asked a question the problem got worse. Now, he changed his mind even quicker and in more drastic decisions.

One day the lion king changed his mind again. This time he decided to change of friends. He rejected his friends, once and twice. His friends were very angry with him. So they went away from him. The lion king realized that he had made an error by changing of friends. But the damage was done, his friends were too angry with him. When he realized that his friends were not going to come back he was very sad. Since that day on he never ever changed his mind again.

     

THE MAGIC BOOM BOX

Manuel V. & Rafael R.

Raven Boy steels Afro Mane’s boom box while he was showing off. Raven Boy flies away with the boom box and makes a party. Everyone is invited to the party except Afro Mane and his tribe. Afro Mane decides to sneak in the party and recover the boom box. He gets crowned as Afro Boom Box King. To celebrate this he makes a royal feast and invites everyone except Raven Boy. Raven Boy gets scared and never comes back, so everyone is happy because they can dance their music without worrying about Raven Boy.
When Afro Mane is showing off his boom box, it unfortunately gets stolen by Raven Boy, so Afro Mane gets mad at the bird and he hunts him down, until he finds him. So then he takes his boom box back and tells the bird never to come back. All of the people in his tribe were happy with him, so the named him Afro “boom box” King, Everybody was happy because Afro Mane had saved his tribes music, now all of them could dance to their music and never have to worry again about the evil bird steeling their music.








THE BROWN ELEPHANT

Andrea R.

There used to be a pack of elephants, like a family. They used to do everything together, one day one of them got lost. Three days passed and the brown elephant had been wondering around, without any luck to find his family. Through the great African savannah he strolled and suddenly felt very hungry. He saw some green far ahead so he walked all day to the two trees. His pack had also seen the trees .The next day they arrived to the same trees, and got back together.

THE BIG KING

Nacho S.

Once upon a time there was a god named Nacho. He had power over all the citizens of the city and if he said to do something they would do it. One day he decided to go the tallest mountain in the world (Teide). He always wore the same clothes they were his favourite, by the best designer. He was twenty five meters from his feet to his head, he touched the clouds with his head and he could jump trough the mountains










MUSHROOMS

Victor Alfonso

Once upon a time in a very far away island in the Caribbean Jaumet was fighting for eat something, he had to feed his mom and him self and there wasn’t lots to eat just what he saw in a very narrow tree where there mushrooms. He thought they where going to be good but that mushrooms where alucinogenous and his mother and him where dead immediately.











   
THE LITTLE FISH’S WISH

Anabel C. & Julia G.

Once upon a time there was a fish who wished he could one day come out of the water and walk like some of the other animals. A Friday morning the sun had been watching the little fish.
He was very sad so he decided to help him but with one condition, he had to continue the wish chain. He accepted very excited.

The fish jumped out of the water. He couldn’t believe it, he was actually walking. He wouldn’t be trapped in the water any more. Now he was the one who had the job to concede a wish to another animal. The chain had to continue. The purpose was to make good actions. The animals were happy ever after, there wishes were conceded.









SANTA ON VACATION

Fredy H.


It was a cold busy Christmas, and Santa was busy as always, this year he was a bit behind with his work and he was really stressed. He smoked 3 cigarette packs a day to keep the stress down but it didn’t help at all. After the Christmas was over a little elf suggested him to go to this little island in the pacific which has no population and is the most peaceful place on earth. So Santa Claus went to this little island and had never been so relaxed in his life. So now he spends most of his time there. So if one day you see a man dressed in red on an island chilling it would be Santa Claus.

 

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