Recently, Jodie read Just So stories by Rudyard Kipling. Based on these stories, she wrote her own. She also wanted some of the fonts colourful. Jodie will turn 8 soon, and is still crazy about mermaids.
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A long time ago, there was a beetle that was round, green
and furry. He was about the size of an acorn, and he had six thorny legs and
sharp fangs. He was a predator who loved meat.
One day he saw an elephant and
thought to himself, “Mmmm, what a juicy looking animal to eat.”
So he crept
towards the elephant planning to sink his fangs into the elephant’s knee, and
eat him whole.
When he was about to bite the elephant, then “THUMP!,” the
elephant stepped on him and he became flat like a squashed furry capati! The
beetle became so angry, he began planning a revenge!
That night, when the elephant was sleeping, the flat, furry
beetle crept onto the elephant. He wanted to pull and bite the elephant’s long,
juicy, fat ears.
While he was climbing, his thorny legs pricked the elephant’s
back. The elephant woke and felt itchy and began scratching his back with his
trunk. As he rolled his trunk on the itch, he was actually rolling the beetle!
“My
revenge is ruined! Stop rolling me about! It’s ticklish!” screamed the beetle.
When the elephant stopped scratching with his trunk, the
beetle got up and saw that now he looked thin like a stick, almost like a stick
bug. So angrily he planned another revenge.
The next day, the beetle crawled into the elephant’s trunk. He
wanted to go inside the elephant’s body to control the elephant. As he crawled into the trunk he got stuck in
stinky, slimy, yellow mucus! He pulled and pulled and suddenly the elephant
sneezed!
The insect shot out free, but he left his fur behind! Then he said to
himself, “I am now so thin, I don’t think I can eat meat anymore. I should try
leaves from now on.” And that was how the stick insect was made.
The End.
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