Young Storykeeper Volume III
To celebrate Cruinniú na nÓg, Great Lighthouses of Ireland and Fighting Words invited 7-12 year-olds to become Young Storykeepers. Your lighthouse-inspired stories are incredible! Fighting Words and Great Lighthouses of Ireland have devoured every single one of the 1,256 stories, poems, illustrations, song lyrics and even stop-motion animations submitted for the Young Storykeepers initiative. With so many entries, these wonderful works will be showcased in a multi-volume Young Storykeepers digital magazine over the coming months.
To celebrate Cruinniú na nÓg, Great Lighthouses of Ireland and Fighting Words invited 7-12 year-olds to become Young Storykeepers. Your lighthouse-inspired stories are incredible!
Fighting Words and Great Lighthouses of Ireland have devoured every single one of the 1,256 stories, poems, illustrations, song lyrics and even stop-motion animations submitted for the Young Storykeepers initiative.
With so many entries, these wonderful works will be showcased in a multi-volume Young Storykeepers digital magazine over the coming months.
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14 | STORYKEEPERS VOLUME <strong>III</strong> AGE SEVEN | 15<br />
THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER<br />
Once upon a time there was a boy called Fred. He always wanted to<br />
be a lighthouse keeper. So he sailed to Ireland. On the way there,<br />
sharks attacked him.<br />
“Chomp chomp!” said the sharks<br />
“Who will save me?!” shouted Fred.<br />
Out of nowhere a ghost ship mysteriously appeared<br />
and went straight through Fred. The sharks were scared<br />
and they swam away. Then suddenly a Megalodon<br />
came.<br />
“Aaaaaaggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” said<br />
Fred.<br />
He was so scared he fell out of the boat.<br />
The Megalodon ate the boat and swam<br />
away. A whale came and the whale<br />
brought Fred to the beach.<br />
Fred was lost and it was getting<br />
dark. Suddenly a light shone high<br />
upon a rock.<br />
IT WAS THE LIGHTHOUSE!<br />
“I made it,” said Fred.<br />
Then he became a<br />
lighthouse keeper.<br />
MIKE THE TWO-COLOURED FISH<br />
Once upon a time there was a fish called Mike. He had two colours<br />
– red and blue.<br />
One day, Mike was going off to play and have a swimming<br />
race with his friends. While he was swimming, a hammerhead<br />
shark growled, “Yum!”<br />
“Ahhh!“ yelled Mike and then he swam for his life.<br />
While he was swimming, Mike swam by his friends.<br />
“Is that Mike?” said the fish. “We’ve got to help<br />
him!” they cried.<br />
They were coloured fish too, so they swam<br />
up to the surface and swam around a buoy.<br />
A boat noticed them and sailed towards<br />
them. They swam after Mike and the<br />
boat followed.<br />
The fishermen saw the shark.<br />
They caught the shark and Mike<br />
and his friends got to play.<br />
Cian Lawlor<br />
Co Dublin<br />
BOBSTER THE PENGUIN<br />
Eoin Leyden<br />
Co Dublin<br />
Once upon a time, there was a penguin<br />
named Bobster. He lived on a rocky beach.<br />
Bobster was very hungry because he<br />
had not caught fish in many days. Every<br />
day, he dived in the sea but he was not fast<br />
enough to catch a fish.<br />
One day, Bobster saw a polar bear<br />
on the beach with a fat fish in its mouth.<br />
Bobster really wanted that fish but he was<br />
scared of polar bears!<br />
Just then a rescue boat from the local<br />
lighthouse sailed by and sounded its horn.<br />
This scared the polar bear, he dropped the<br />
fish and ran away. Bobster grabbed the fish<br />
and then ate it. He really enjoyed it.<br />
Finally, Bobster went to sleep on the<br />
rocks with his head under his wing.<br />
Louis Beyaert<br />
Co Dublin
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