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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24 | STORYKEEPERS VOLUME <strong>III</strong> AGE SEVEN | 25<br />
Lucy Murphy<br />
Co Cork<br />
MILLIE MOUSE<br />
My name is Millie Mouse<br />
I live in a lighthouse<br />
Overlooking the sea<br />
Just the keeper and me<br />
The keeper’s name is Derry<br />
He is so very merry<br />
He gives food aplenty<br />
And I love his good company<br />
He tells me stories of fun<br />
From morning till the night’s done<br />
I get to sleep on an old coat<br />
While he keeps lookout for any boat<br />
LIGHTHOUSE ILLUSTRATION<br />
ABBY – THE RAINBOW-SCALED<br />
FISH<br />
One day Abby told her dad that she was<br />
going to play with her friends. Abby was a<br />
rainbow scaled fish who lived in the deep<br />
blue sea.<br />
So Abby set off to meet her friends at<br />
the surface. When she got there, she saw<br />
a big boat was going to crash into the rocks.<br />
The lighthouse was broken so Abby and her<br />
friends shook their scales at the boat.<br />
The people saw them and didn’t know<br />
what they were. Then they realised they<br />
were going to hit the rocks so they sailed<br />
away.<br />
After that Abby got to play with her<br />
friends for the whole afternoon.<br />
LINCOLN’S BIG ESCAPE!!!<br />
Once upon a time…<br />
…there was a boy called Lincoln who lived in New York City. He shared a tiny apartment<br />
with ten meddling sisters. His ears were starting to crack up from all the noise! He needed<br />
to escape his sisters!<br />
Lincoln rented a vessel and set sail to Sligo to see his granny and grandad. After one<br />
month, he arrived in Sligo. He spent the summer in their lighthouse. It was relaxing.<br />
He went back to New York City in autumn. His sisters missed him and promised to be<br />
quieter.<br />
Daniel Dominguez-<br />
Kane<br />
Co Dublin<br />
Darragh Murphy<br />
Co Cork<br />
Aoife Lawlor<br />
Co Dublin<br />
LIGHTHOUSE<br />
Lots of light throughout the night<br />
Is it lonely high up there?<br />
Gush of wind strong and powerful<br />
Helping to guide boats is what you do<br />
Tall and bright so everyone can see<br />
How do you have time for tea?<br />
Orange or white, what colour is your light?<br />
Up and down must make you tired<br />
Stairs they circle round and round<br />
Every sailor knows your name<br />
Olivia Byrne<br />
Co Dublin
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