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.
Nettlefield Primary School, P5
4th December 2024
There was a water bottle in a shop. It was scared. It was called Booster Bob. Booster Bob was horrified because there were no lights at the shop. It was dark and Booster Bob was scared of tripping.
Beanie the Alien was a toy in the same shop. Someone opened him and then he went swiftly to the water bottle aisle and then saw Booster Bob.
“Do you want to be my friend?” said Beanie the Alien, shyly...
Story-making @ Stranmillis with children from Currie, St Mary's (Divis), St Joseph's (Slate St) and Glenwood Primary Schools
3rd December 2024
Once upon a time, there was an alien called Tommy. Tommy wanted to take over the galaxy. He was searching for a magic crystal that would give him the power to rule. Tommy was looking for Cyan because he hadn’t seen him in a while. Cyan was a colour-changing dragon. Tommy had a special whistle with a giant squeak. When Cyan heard it, he teleported Tommy to the moon and he landed with a thump...
St Bernard's Primary School (Belfast), P5
3rd December 2024
There was once a centipede called CD and its best friend was a worm called Jerrif.
“When will we get there, we have been travelling for days in this boat,” cried Jerrif...
Holy Trinity Primary School (Belfast), P4
3rd December 2024
Ellie the Christmas Tree was in the park. She got turned into a talking Christmas tree by toxic stuff. Ellie wanted to go on the swing, but she couldn’t get on it. She met Snowy the Elf at the park...
St Paul's Primary School (Irvinestown), P4
26th November 2024
It was evening, and Jonathan and Jake met each other in a forest. Jonathan was the biggest spider on the planet. Jake was a lion who was faster than a cheetah. The forest was full of big, dead trees because Jake used the trees for scratching, and that killed all the trunks.
In the middle of the forest was a river and a big piranha lived there...
St Brigid's Primary School, Downpatrick, P6/7
26th November 2024
It was a very sunny day when Nacho Man went to buy more cheese. He needed more cheese for his cheese gun. The cheese gun shot cheese to make people like cheese. Nacho man needed cheese to make people like cheese and if they didn’t then they would become his greatest enemy.
St Brigid's Primary School (Downpatrick), P6 and P7
19th November 2024
Welcome to our story, this is the story of Puman. He has been scarred. He liked sign language and was made of paper. One day a wee child didn’t realise that Puman was a paper human and he accidently cut off his arm.
Birches Primary School, P7
19th November 2024
Once upon a time there was an evil pencil case. His name was Bob and he couldn't walk. Bob had to leap around to move.
He had a brilliant, devious, plan to destroy pencils. But he was worried that his owner was going to chuck him out because of his evil plan...
Holy Child Primary School (Belfast), P5
12th November 2024
Once upon a time Lucas, the mutated wolf, found Jerry sleeping on the floor of the forest...
Scoil an Droichid, R7
6th November 2024
Once there was a pencil called Penny. She was 3,000 years old, and was created in a science lab by an experiment gone wrong...
