Welcome to our Library of Stories. Please click on the story title to read Chapter 1.
These are collaborative story openings created by school groups and community groups.
Each participant writes their own Chapter 2.
Birches Primary School, P3
28th June 2023
Blue the water dragon was swimming through the ocean when he spotted something. It was grey with horns. He thought it was an ice dragon so he swam close to it and knew it was an ice dragon. It looked like a blue dragon with an ice tail...
Holy Trinity Primary School, P5
21st June 2023
Gemstone said, “It’s time I get a new friend, it’s kind of boring here.”
Gemstone felt like his mum was pressuring him into being friends with Gerard the Giraffe who was just a baby. Gerard the Giraffe always threw a tantrum when he didn't get what he wants.
All of a sudden there is a loud and unexpected earthquake. A huge black hole appears and it sucks Gemstone in. Gemstone is vacuumed into the past and is spat out into a scorching, isolated desert.
Bunscoil an tSléibhe Dhuibh, R6 
20th June 2023
Smack and snap went the mouth of the crocodile.
The swamp was dirty, covered in plastic and green. A man named Patrick lived near the swamp and he was fishing and he saw the cap floating in the swamp and he called his friend, Michael over.
“Do you think I could fish this cap out?”
Patrick fished it out but something was tugging on the other end of the cap, something green and heavy. He saw two small eyes poking out of the water...
Carrick Primary School, P
5
15th June 2023
Once upon a time there was a banana called Benny who had a best friend called Billy who was a cherry. Benny’s biggest fear was smoothie mixers, which he’d heard stories about from Billy. Billy had told Benny about the smoothie mixers to try and scare him...
St Patrick's Primary School, Holywood, P5
14th June 2023
There was red and yellow sand all around them. Mr Bones and his pet ghost-vampire, Roy, were searching for rare bones.
The sand began swirling around, in a bone shape, and suddenly ...
Christ the Redeemer Primary School, P5
13th June 2023
Once there was a girl called Carla who liked to play football. Carla had brown hair and blue eyes. Carla’s best friend was a medium sized German Shepherd dog called Bruno who barked but Carla could understand him.
Every night Carla would say to Bruno, “I wish I had other friends and I wish I could win the World Cup as well.”
I wish I could do that as well, barked Bruno. “Bark bark bark bark.”
Knockbreda Primary School, P6
8th June 2023 - Empathy Day with Libraries NI
It was summertime in the forest and the sun shone through the trees. The trees and the grass were blue except for a special blade of grass, blazing green, called Paul. The sky was pink and the sun was falling out
of the sky.
Killowen Primary School, P4
8th June 2023
Stinky Bob and his brother are going for a walk. An enemy is coming behind them to kidnap the both of them, but Cutesy the dog rescues them and they continue on their walk to get cheese to build the cheese house. Billy Joe the half dinosaur half man comes to help build the cheese house.
Then it’s built and then the magical mermaid Sky knocks it down and steals all the cheese but then once she gets it into the ocean it goes all mouldy and bad...
Killowen Primary School, P6/7
7th June 2023
A 100 Years Project workshop
Frank the banana-alien was walking his pet rock, Rocko, in a classroom in France. Frank heard the teacher telling the class what a time capsule is. He had an idea, and he was happy to contribute to the time capsule.
Coláiste Feirste, Bl10
31st May 2023
A 100 Years Project workshop
It was a rainy day, and the world was in black and white. Mickey was rolling a cigar, and he looked out the window and he saw a pigeon. Mickey had orange fingers from the fifty years he had worked in the Capital Cigars Factory in Cork.
Mickey dropped his tobacco, and shouted, “What was that?!”...
