Joe the Purple Monkey’s Scary Day

Harding Memorial Integrated Primary School, P3
27th March 2025

Joe was eating breakfast. He was having waffles in his treehouse, because he was no ordinary monkey. He was a purple, flying monkey and he didn’t like bananas.

Afterwards, he climbed down to his bicycle. Joe had a long tail, which he tucked up when he was riding his bicycle. He was going to meet his friends to have fun. His friend, DeepShark, lived on the top of a hill. Every week, Joe went to swim in him - because DeepShark was a swimming pool!

Joe was testing the water with his tail when he felt something bite his tail. He saw a reddish shape in the water. It was a shark! Joe felt scared. He jumped! “Oh no, it’s a shark!” he squealed. “Oh my goodness, I come here every week and I’ve never seen a shark.”

"How did it get here?" he wondered. A bubble began to grow from inside the pool. It floated up and it burst. It was sticky sounding…