Young Storykeeper Volume III

52 | STORYKEEPERS VOLUME III AGE EIGHT | 53
THE GIRL AND THE PROBLEM
THE LIGHT HOUSE
One day a lighthouse was sitting by the sea at
Clontarf. Birds would fly past the lighthouse every
morning. The birds were all types of birds, seagulls
and pigeons. One day a girl named Leila wanted
to go on her kayak she saw the birds. It was a
very sunny day. Leila went in her boat over to the
lighthouse. Leila worked as a vet. When she arrived
at the lighthouse one of the birds was trapped at
the top of the lighthouse. Luckily Leila had a vet
kit. She climbed up the lighthouse and got the bird.
She cured the bird and he flew off. She felt like she
did a good deed. Now Leila goes to the lighthouse
every week.
Mia Arkins
Co Dublin
Once upon a time a little girl was at the beach with her
mummy and daddy. They were packing their beach
things. The little girl saw a lighthouse across the sea,
then she went on a boat. The boat stopped, bumping
into a desert island.
The girl climbed out of the boat. She panicked
when it was nighttime, as there was no light from the
lighthouse.
The bulb was not working.
Unicorns came to her. They were unicorns
because they had horns. They gave her a lovely dress,
shoes and a crown.
The unicorns also gave her a bulb ball for the
lighthouse, just like all the other balls around the world.
Then they all climbed up the lighthouse, but the
ponies couldn’t climb up the stairs. The lighthouse
keeper was too tired to change the bulb ball, so he
went to bed.
The unicorns eventually succeeded to climb the
stairs and climbed to the top. They put the bulb ball
and then the light came through.
The girl’s parents noticed she was gone. They
went on a boat and sailed to the lighthouse and went
to ask the lighthouse keeper.
They woke him up to search the lighthouse. They
found the girl and the unicorns. The girl hugged the
two unicorn ponies and went home.
Isis Prien
Co Dublin
THE HOOK LIGHTHOUSE
Jake the lighthouse keeper lived in a small cottage near the lighthouse with
his wife Mary and daughter Holly in Wexford. Every night Jake and Holly
would go to the lighthouse to switch on the light.
One cold, wintry night Jake and Holly got into their little brown boat
and rowed over to the lighthouse. Mary waved them off from the window.
Jake always had a worry that he would not switch the light on in time and
that the ships would crash into the rocks.
Jake and Holly ran into the lighthouse, as it was very windy. Jake
went to run up the stairs but suddenly CRASH! The old stairs broke.
“Oh no!” cried Holly to Jake. “How will we turn on the light now?”
They had a think. Then Jake had a brilliant idea. “I will call Handyman
Bobby on the phone.”
Handyman Bobby came immediately, bashing across the waves in his
little boat. He had all his tools with him and fixed the stairs.
Jake got the light on just in time for the ships to pass the lighthouse.
He had always worried about the bulbs blowing but never about the stairs
breaking. Jake had solved the problem in the end and all the ships went
past the lighthouse safely.
Ella Hillick
Co Dublin