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FEATURING STORIES FROM: Amity Ewert, Benny Baker, Jack Steenholdt, Azaria Tidcombe, Eliza Culton, Gabrielle Hoskin, Andrew Frost, Charley Pierce, Jack Mullins, Tom Bain, Ella Charlton, Rachel Casanova, Mitchie Bain, Obi Ewert, Ol Culton

DOGS, BOXES and CRACKED EGGS

Published September, 2019

Hoges Productions

Deniliquin, NSW

Australia

Stories written and dictated by the clever kids at Blighty

Public school.

4 DAISY GETS LOST Ol Culton

6 SPIDERMAN Versus THE DARK SPIDER Jack Mullins

8 THE FAIRIES Amity Ewert

10 TEX AND ME Andrew Frost

12 THE CATS Benny Baker

14 GIRAFFE LOCKED IN A BOX Tom Bain

16 BELLA AND THE GOLDEN BONE Rachel Casanova

18 THE BLUE ROCKS Ella Charlton

20 RUBBLE Mitchie Bain

22 THE JEWELS Gabrielle Hoskin

24 DAISY AND THE EGGS Eliza Culton

25 THE CHICKEN AND THE SNAKES Azaria Tidcombe

27 THE TURTLE Jack Steenholdt

28 THE DINOSAUR Charley Pierce

30 THE BOX-Part 1 Obi Ewert

I was at my house getting ready to go to the park with

my dog, Daisy.

“Oh Daisy!” I said. “How black, brown and fluffy you

are. You make me cry.”

I let Daisy out of the house to go to the outside toilet.

After that, we went to the park. I rode my bike and

Daisy sat in my bike trailer. She barked 5 times and

then she stopped.

At the park, Daisy and I were playing fetch

with a ball that I brought from home. I

threw the ball very far. Daisy caught the ball. She

went wonky because she hit her head on the gravel.

She was blurry eyed. She

started walking in a zigzag

across the park. She walked

over to some brown and

black trees, and

suddenly she blended in

with the trees. I couldn’t see Daisy at all.

So, I started looking. I looked over at the playground,

around the big rocket and around the trees.

Then, I saw Daisy, but Daisy didn’t see me. She kept

walking and zigzagging in the trees.

I ran after her and chased her out of

the trees.

“Come back Daisy!” I said. “It’s me!”

Daisy barked at me and she ran away.

She ran all the way back to my home.

I got on my bike and I went after her. I couldn’t keep

up.

Daisy went back to her doggy-bed and had a sleep

because she was tired.

I lay down next to her, and I had a sleep too.

By Ol Culton

I was on the farm with my dog, Pluto, and he dug up a

big portal in the cow-pen.

I jumped in the portal. It took me somewhere.

When I got out of the portal, the

place looked like a movie. I looked

around. I saw Spiderman. He spun a

web to a building and he landed on the

ground. It was awesome.

Inside the building, The Dark

Spider was destroying

everything.

Spiderman shot a web up to the building. He

rushed into the window. He slammed a web

onto the roof and stayed there, waiting for The Dark

Spider.

When The Dark Spider came, Spiderman stopped him

with a kick.

The Dark Spider got back up, and then, Spiderman shot

another web around him. The Dark Spider was trapped.

Spiderman put him in a cage and the police came.

They put The Dark Spider in jail.

I ran back to the portal. I jumped into the portal. It

was blurry inside.

Seconds later, I jumped out and I was home. I went

and got Pluto. I took him to the backyard

and I gave him some dry dog food.

Then, I went inside the house to see my

family, and I told them all about my adventure.

By Jack Mullins

My stepdad, Wayne was in the car driving. My brother,

Obi and I were in the back, waiting to get to school.

When we got to school we undid our seat belts. We got

our bags and we got out of the car. I went over to the

cubby house. I saw a box at

the cubby house, sitting next

to the gates. The box was

small and pink, like a pencil

case.

I found a key on top of the

box. I asked Eliza to help me open it.

Eliza said, “what’s inside it?”

I said, “I don’t know!”

Eliza and I opened the box.

In the box were two Fairies. They

were dressed in rainbow clothes. They

also had wings and a pet pink unicorn.

While they were in the box, the fairies

made a big mess.

They were busy making presents. The fairies’ names

were, Twinkle and Sparkles, and their unicorn’s name

was Vanilla. They were making the presents for the

children of Blighty public school.

When they finished making the presents, they flew

them to the classrooms. Eliza and I tried to stop them.

We wanted them to open the presents outside.

The fairies knew how many children there were in each

class. Each student got to open a present and they

played with them for the rest of the day.

Eliza got a toy castle with a princess, a

King, a baby and some animals. I got the

same.

By Amity Ewert

At school I found an egg. It was on the tennis court.

When I looked, there were 100 eggs on the tennis

court. 99 of the eggs were broken. They had chocolate

in them. I ate all the chocolate from the 99 eggs.

The egg that didn’t break, broke a year

after. Inside the egg, there was a dog. It

was a kelpie. It looked so cool. It was

brown and black. It had a collar around its

neck. On the collar was the name, Tex.

Tex ran around the school and jumped

over everyone. The kids played with him.

Tex ran over to the school gate and started digging. He

dug a big tunnel from the school to my house.

I crawled through the tunnel. I popped up inside the

house.

I followed Tex around the house and into the lounge

room. Tex walked to the front door and started

barking, so I opened up the door.

Tex ran outside. I ran outside too.

I got on my motorbike and followed

Tex all the way to the back of the

farm.

Then, Tex ran along the road to our

other farm. He turned into the farm

and went inside. He started digging

another tunnel.

I put my bike down and followed him down the tunnel.

We ended up back where we started. At school!

All the kids at school got a big fright.

By Andrew Frost

I came to school and I saw a medium-sized box on the

oval. I opened the box with a chainsaw, and it fell

apart. There were four kittens and one mother and one

dad inside the box.

They all ran away. They ran over to the

classroom. One of the kittens got

stuck on the verandah, and it died. It

was a baby kitten.

Now, there were only three kittens left. The kittens

still had their mum and dad.

The kittens and their mother and father went under

the Schoolhouse and saw some milk and water. All the

kids kept stomping in the classroom and on the

verandah. So, the cats ran away.

One of the kittens was run over by the

mower. Marie was driving the mower. Now,

only two kittens had survived. The kittens

ran away. They had lots of milk and water.

Just then, some lightning hit a tree.

The tree fell on the mother and father

cats. The mother and the father died.

So, the two little kittens built a house

of bricks at the back of the sport shed.

Because the house was made of bricks

the big bad wolf couldn’t get them. They

didn’t die ever.

By Benny Baker

I was walking around at school with my friend Jack M.,

when we found a box near the cubby house. We tried

to open it, but we could not open

it, so we went to the principal.

The principal walked over to the

cubby house. She tried to open

the box with a red chainsaw. She

could not open it either.

The next day, when I got to school, the box was open.

It was empty, but how?

Jack and I asked the principal if we could stay at

school that night, and she said yes.

When it was night time, Jack and I stayed at the

school. Jack had a torch. He turned it on and he shone

it on the oval.

There it was! A giraffe!-It was eating

leaves off the trees. The giraffe tried to

run away. We chased after it and it turned

around and chased after us. It chased us

around the school.

It ran onto the oval and it ran into another giraffe.

The two giraffes started playing soccer in the

playground. One of the giraffes kicked a goal. He

cheered. The other giraffe tried his best to kick a

goal, and he did. He cheered too.

After the game, the two giraffes shook hooves.

One of the giraffes bumped into Jack. He dropped the

torch. It rolled under the classroom. Everything got

dark. Jack and I couldn’t see very well.

Just then, we heard something eating on the roof of

the classroom. We looked up and we saw the two

giraffes.

Jack and I got a ladder from the sport shed. We put it

against the classroom. We climbed up the ladder. I got

a rope out of my backpack. I caught the

giraffes with the rope and I pulled them

off the roof. Jack and I put

them back in the box and closed

it.

By Tom Bain

I was looking after my kangaroo called Ruby. Then, I

looked at my dog, Bella and she was digging up

something. It was golden.

“Bella! What is that?” I said.

Bella bit into the gold thing, and

brought it up out of the hole. It was a

bone. I took the bone off Bella.

“WOW!-Bella-you are awesome. I know you are a

border collie and you are white and brown with a long

tail, but you are still awesome.”

“Ruff!” barked Bella.

“You are such a good girl, Bella! WOW!-You have found

a bone. Good girl, Bella. Yes you are. Let’s go and tell

mum that you found a bone!”

I ran into the door, but I didn’t knock myself out.

Then, I opened the door and walked inside. I was

carrying the bone. I showed mum the bone.

“Oh! I forgot that it was Bella’s birthday today,” said

mum.

‘Ruff! Ruff!” barked Bella.

“You are a very, very good girl, Bella. I love you so

much.” I said.

Then, I walked outside with mum. Bella came with us

because she wanted the bone. I gave Bella the bone.

Bella took the bone to her cage. She dug a hole in the

ground. She put the bone in the hole and buried it.

Mum grabbed the tail of Ruby, my kangaroo, and she

flipped Ruby onto her back.

Then, Mum picked her up and carried

her to Bella’s cage. She gently put the

kangaroo down in the cage. Bella licked

Ruby on the face.

I went and got some chaff and put it in

Bella’s food bowl.

Ruby bounced and hopped over to the food and she ate

the whole lot.

By Rachel Casanova

I am looking after my pet dog, called Tess. I am taking

Tess for a walk down the street. She is a kelpie. She is

black.

When we are walking down the street, Tess sees a

little toy cat near a fence. She picks it up, and then

she digs a hole. She drops the little toy cat and looks in

the hole.

She finds a shiny, blue rock in the hole.

“WOW!” I say.

Tess picks up the blue rock and gives it to me.

“Good girl!” I say. “Let’s go home now Tess.”

Tess digs another hole. She finds another little toy cat

in the new hole. She puts this little toy cat back in the

hole and she buries it.

I say, “come on Tess!”

We go home, and the next day we

go for a walk down the street again.

Tess runs over to the same hole

and she digs out the sand.

She finds the little toy cat from

yesterday. She also finds some more

little, blue rocks.

I put the rocks in my hand and I carry

them home. It is dark when I get home.

I go to my bedroom and I find that the

lights aren’t working. When I open my hand, the rocks

are glowing.

I put them on my bedside table. I go to sleep, and when

I wake up, the rocks are gone.

By Ella Charlton

I was in the park with my dog, named

Rubble. She is a Jack Russell. She is

brown and white. She finds something.

“What is it girl?” I said. ”Oh no! You

have dug up a snake! Run Rubble run!”

Rubble ran away and hid in a bush.

I ran over to my Uncle David who was fixing the

toilets. He let me borrow a shovel.

I hit the snake on the head. It hissed at me and then it

died. I looked around.

“Where’s Rubble gone?” I said to my Uncle.

“I’m pretty sure she went into the bushes!” said Uncle

David.

I put some dog food out in front of the bushes. Rubble

ran out and ate the dog food.

Near the toilets there was a big, deep hole.

I walked over to it and I nearly fell in. I saw

a briefcase in the hole.

I got it out of the hole with the shovel. There was a

key hanging off the briefcase.

Rubble and I figured out it was the key that opened

the briefcase. I opened the briefcase.

Inside the briefcase, there was a million dollars.

I took the money to my Uncle David. He said, “we can

build a million houses with that money.”

So, Uncle David

and I built a

million houses,

and we lived in all

of them.

By Mitchie Bain

I was at home. I was outside with my dog. My dog is

called Rosie.

I went over to the chook pen, and I found a hole. Rosie

had dug the hole. I looked in the hole. I found a box. It

was as big as a pen. I put it in my bag.

I took the box to the lake near my pig-pen. I put my

bag down and I found a key in my bag. I opened the box

with the key.

I found earrings, and bracelets

and necklaces in the box. They

had crystals on them. They

looked pretty and I could see

some more jewels in the box.

I shut the box and I put it in my bag. I walked past the

chook pen and I tied Rosie up to a tree, so she couldn’t

run off and find some chooks to eat.

Then, I walked through the gate. I opened the front

door of the house. I said, “mummy! I found a box!”

Mum said, “well done!”

I put my bag on my bed, and I took out the key. I put

the key in the lock on the box. The box opened and

four fairies flew out. They said, “keep the Jewels! We

don’t need them!”

I said, “thank you.” And I took the Jewels and put

them in my own jewellery box that my Nana and Pop

gave me.

By Gabrielle Hoskin

I was at my house and I went

outside to get my dog. I saw a hole

in the dirt at the back of my house.

I looked around and saw heaps of holes. My dog had

made them. In every hole there were eggs.

Suddenly, the eggs hatched open. There were chicks in

the eggs. The chicks walked around the holes so they

wouldn’t fall in.

My dog came along. It kept on digging more holes. In

every hole there were more eggs. They all hatched and

out came some roosters.

My dog started barking and all the chicks and the

roosters followed her.

I said to my dog, “Daisy! Take them to the chook pen.”

Daisy took them to the pen.

I closed the gate when they were all inside.

Daisy ran away from the chook pen and started digging

more holes.

By Eliza Culton

Once, I found an egg on the road at Finley. I picked it

up. I put it in a box and I put a blanket over it. I put

the box in the car, and then I drove home.

I waited for the egg to hatch. I waited for two days,

and then it hatched. Out came a baby

chicken. It looked cute! It was really

nice.

I let it play outside for a little while

and it jumped in the pool. It swam

over to a lifejacket. It swam around

the pool.

Suddenly, it laid an egg in the pool. It floated in the

pool and over to the filter box. The baby chicken

accidentally got washed into the box.

I opened the pool gates and I went to check the filter.

I saw the egg and I grabbed it out of the pool.

I went and got the incubator. I put the egg in the

incubator.

I waited 28 days for it to hatch.

CRACK!-The egg opened up.

There was a baby python inside the egg. I got a plastic

shovel and picked up the snake.

I took the python to my snake-pen,

and I put it in with the other

snakes.

The baby python went over to the

other snakes and it hissed at them.

They all hissed back.

By Azaria Tidcombe

I was at the river. I was swimming. I saw an egg. It was

floating in the river. It was gigantic. It hatched in the

river. There was a turtle inside. It was green and had a

really hard shell. The turtle called for its mother but

she did not come.

I pushed the turtle to the beach. I swam underwater

and I found its nest. I waited there until its mother

came.

I swam over to the beach and

pushed the baby turtle back

into the water. I showed it

where the nest was.

The baby turtle finally found its mother.

I jumped into the river and had a swim. Then, I got out

of the river and I ran onto the beach. After that, I ran

all the way home.

By Jack Steenholdt

I was down at the river with mum and dad, and Ella and

Sam. I found a strange egg. It was near the water. It

looked like a dinosaur egg. I picked it up and dropped

it. The egg cracked open. There was a dinosaur inside.

It was fat.

The dinosaur chased after me. I

was scared. I ran all the way

home, and the dinosaur followed

me.

I ran through the gate and the

dinosaur jumped the fence. It

crashed into the chook pen and

all the chooks got out. The chooks chased the dinosaur.

They chased it into the house.

“Who let the chooks out?” yelled Mum from the

kitchen. She looked up. She saw the dinosaur. The

dinosaur saw mum.

Mum screamed, and so did the dinosaur. Mum fainted,

but the dinosaur didn’t faint.

It jumped on the couch and sat down next to me.

I gave the dinosaur a pat,

and I turned on the telly. We

watched Netflix together.

Dinotrux was on.

It was awesome.

By Charley Pierce

(Part in italics by Hoges)

One day, I rode my bike to school with Oliver and

Mitch and William. When we got to school, we saw the

biggest box we had ever seen. It was on the verandah.

William had a good idea. He sneaked up and stole the

teacher’s car keys. Then, he hopped in the car and

drove to town to get a jackhammer.

He came back to school with the jackhammer and he

opened the box. Inside the box, there was a truck and

a toy. The truck was Optimus

Prime, and suddenly the truck

flew away to stop an asteroid

from crashing into the Earth.

If Optimus Prime did not stop

the asteroid, the Earth would be

in one million pieces.

By Obi Ewert

LEGEND

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