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.
Carrickfergus Model Primary School, P6
26th April 2022
It was a cold and foggy night. It was in New Zealand in 1922. Tabitha and her family were driving home from a sandcastle building competition at the beach where she met Jack the footballer. Jack had dared her to slap her brother during a game of Truth or Dare. Her brother was teasing her about liking Jack and Tabitha’s mum and dad were shouting...
Strandtown Primary School, P4
31st March 2022
Once upon a time, a green skeleton called Blue Skelly was walking to the supermarket. He was going to get some pepperoni pizza for dinner. He brought it home with him and ate it, sitting on the table. While he was eating his dinner and watching the news, he heard a knock at the door. It was his friend, Nuggets.
Strandtown Primary School, P4
30th March 2022
Once there was an alien called Bob who had green skin and a metal chest which made him look like a robot. Bob lived on the Robot Planet and had a pet dog called Max. Bob liked eating chocolate, but he didn’t like eating it alone and so he shared it with Max.
Bob and Max were starting to build a shed, and someone was spying on them. Bob had no idea, but Max started barking.
Bob was confused. “Stop barking, Max!”
Max kept on barking until Bob looked at what Max was barking at. There, over the wall, he could see the top of someone's head...
Strandtown Primary School, P4
29th March 2022
Ash the Fire Phoenix was talking to his friend Phoebe the toaster, when Phoebe said, “I’m late for popping up the toast in the cafe!”. Off she went to the cafe to start serving people food, but Phoebe forgot to pop the toast and the toast and the whole cafe went on fire, so Phoebe got fired!
Ash heard the fire alarm from the cafe and went to save Phoebe, but when he got there the water phoenix was putting out the fire...
Strandtown Primary School, P4
24th March 2022
Long ago there was a little dog called Scruff who lived in the arctic where there were lots of animals and it was very cold. Scruff was a lovely, fluffy dog, who had a friend called Leafo. Leafo was a monkey who had three leaves on his head and liked to eat leaves. Scruff was a little red dog who loved to eat pizza, and wanted to live in Pizzaland where everything was made of pizza...
Strandtown Primary School, P4
23rd March 2022
One sunny day, a cat called Cosmic was walking around the streets on Mars. Cosmic was white with orange stripes, and turquoise eyes. She was roaming, looking for something to eat, and she bumped into Banana Boy, someone she had never met before. Banana Boy was green because he wasn’t ripe yet...
Strandtown Primary School, P4
16th March 2022
Once upon a space there was an alien called Jim Bob. Jim Bob liked to eat loads of chocolate, thirty tonnes! He was very big, and he really missed his family on the planet Big Bop because an evil alien had brought him to another planet: Earth!
Big Bop was a thousand years old, and so everything was really old there because it was out in the middle of space.
Jim Bob was scared of water because there was no water on planet Big Bop. Jim Bob wanted to get back to Big Bop so that he could find his family, and so he didn’t have to be scared of water anymore...
Strandtown Primary School, P4
15th March 2022
Boom! Crash! One of Rob’s spells was going wrong!
Rob’s mum came upstairs.
‘Why do your spells keep going wrong? They’re causing a lot of racket!’
Rob was annoyed because his mum told him off so he did a spell on her.
It was a spell that made her go backwards whenever she tried to go forwards.
But the spell backfired on him...
The Playtrail at The Hub
15th March 2022
Once upon an enchanted time two people woke up in a forest at twilight. The two people were good and small.
“What’s that sound, lets go see what the sound could be.” Said Lisa
“Where are we?” said Leah in a tired voice.
“It looks like we are in an Irish enchanted forest,” said Lisa as there were glowing leaves.
“How did we get here?” Lisa said.
“I just woke up here,” said Leah...
The Playtrail - The Hub Group
14th March 2022
It was a rainy Friday morning when Tyler left Sam the dog off with Amy, who lived in an apartment block with her 15 kids ranging in age from 25 to 6. The apartment had red bricks with six windows with pink window frames. The drainpipes and gutters were shaped like jelly beans. The apartment was filled with noise and hectic. There was a spa on the roof. There was a red letterbox stuffed with mail and love letters. The older ones were fighting with the younger ones...
