Young Storykeeper Volume III

56 | STORYKEEPERS VOLUME III AGE EIGHT | 57
THE STORY OF JEFF (THE HERMIT CRAB)
Once Jeff woke up in his chest on the seafloor. He went
for a walk on Coral Reef and then he had his breakfast
of dead crustaceans with is friend Tim the Pink Shrimp
at his favourite restaurant, The Crab-Out.
After breakfast, Jeff wanted to see what the view
was like on the beach, so he went for a second walk.
Suddenly a ball hit him on his shell, and he was upside
down! Jeff hid in his shell hoping the tide would
bring him back into the sea. Then a
seagull called Pickle grabbed him!
Pickle brought him to a buoy and he
was going to eat Jeff! Jeff was worried, but then he had
a good idea! He pinched Pickle’s beak and he fell onto
the buoy and he wobbled the buoy until Pickle fell into
the water.
“Help!” he said.
Jeff went into the water and pinched him out of the
water, Pickle let out a big SQUAWK and flew away.
Later that evening Jeff had a party in the sea at
the Big-Hole, his favourite place, in the middle of the
reef with his crab friends. They had a good time with
salt-shakes and seaweed cake! After the party, Jeff
went to his old chest on the seafloor, said goodnight to
his neighbour the eel and crawled into bed. Jeff read his
book, Tales of the Kraken, and he was tired so then he
went to sleep.
It had been a very busy day.
Bodhi Fox
Co Dublin
THE LIGHTHOUSE & THE SEA MONSTERS
Once upon a time, a family who lived in a
lighthouse went on a holiday to Spain. The
morning of the holiday, the mam and dad
rushed out of the house. Fia and Tadhg woke
up and found out that their parents were
gone! They were scared. Fia and Tadhg had
been sleeping in the lantern room. But they
thought that they should have slept in their
own bedroom that night.
Their parents only realised on the plane
that they had forgotten Fia and Tadhg at the
lighthouse. They felt like the worst parents
ever. They were worried, but they were quite
happy as they were free from the kids.
Fia and Tadhg were scared. They ran
into all of the rooms in the lighthouse, but
their parents and their baby brother were
gone! They thought that there was no way
that their parents would leave without them.
They looked for their parents all day. It was
night and Fia and Tadgh were very, very s-ca-r-e-d!
They began looking again everywhere
for their parents. They went to the mountains
on the land and also in the sea. While they
were looking for them, sea monsters were
surrounding them. The sea monsters were
green and greasy, with slime coming from
their mouths and arms. The sea monsters
were getting closer and closer and closer
and closer. Fia and Tadgh tried to run away,
but they realised they were under water so
they couldn’t run very fast. They swam to the
surface and found two lifebuoys. They swam
back to land with the help of two superfast
sailfish.
When they got to land, there were
slimy sea monsters on top of the lighthouse.
When the sea monsters saw Fia and Tadgh
they jumped off the lighthouse.
Fia and Tadgh ran into the lighthouse.
The sea monsters tried jumping over to
them but failed. Fia and Tadgh ran up to the
lantern room and shone the lamp at the sea
monsters. The sea monsters didn’t like the
light and slowed down. In the end, Fia and
Tadgh won the battle.
Nathan Sweetman
Co Dublin