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.
Harding Memorial Integrated Primary School, GLSC 
23rd November 2023
It was the end of a good day, a fantastic day. Jumbo Bird was playing hide-and-seek with Cheese and Quackers in the grassy hills while Jumbo Bird was fetching broccoli for her wonderful children and friends. Cheese and Quackers was swimming on the water with their wings. They had spiky wings, and you could see the bones because they were very skinny...
St Moninna's PS, P5
21st November 2023
One day when Mazie was young she didn’t have a family and then another dinosaur family adopted her because they saw her abandoned in the forest.
When the family adopted Mazie they realised that she was allergic to cake, and it was her so-called sister’s birthday...
HEdNI group
16th November 2023
Rebecca was Winja’s fiance. She had blonde hair and brown eyes and magic powers that let her speak to toys. Winja was dangerous and not scared of much. He was half ninja and half wizard. He had lots of cool weapons to fight with: a sword, a bamboo ninja stick, an axe, and a churican. His best friend was his pet dragon, Striker who was a big black dragon with three heads who could breathe lightning, fire, and ice...
Nettlefield Primary School, P5
15th November 2023
One day Michael was alone at his house. Michael was scared to be in his house on his own because there was a frightening ghost. He was scared because he lost his pet gorilla Scott, when his gorilla was at his house and his gorilla escaped.
St Bride's Primary School, P5
8th November 2023
Once, a skinny little boy named Jimmy grew up in a foul, smelly barn but he didn’t have any friends until one day he met a chicken-ogre called Jeff. Jeff the chicken-ogre liked to get into mischief, so Jimmy and Jeff did a lot of wretched things to all the animals. For example, they put pasta in the horses’ feeding bowls instead of straw and they put medicine in the water box instead of water...
St Bride's Primary School, P5
7th November 2023
Once, Mr Macaroni was an ordinary person working in a lab. He was working on an experiment and his friend accidentally put in a potion that wasn’t meant to go in and made it explode! Then Mr Macaroni turned into a macaroni and Mr Macaroni’s friend turned into a blob of cream cheese on the floor...
Harding Memorial Integrated Primary School, P6
26th October 2023
Once upon a time a bread named Bready woke up in a town called Gluten Nation. There was a person named Toasty who’s a toaster and he had a big stick which he could hit into the ground and lightning and potatoes would come from the sky...
Elmgrove Primary School, P6
19th October 2023
This is a story about a piece of bread whose life is about to change. He came from a land called Toasty World. His name was Mr Toasty. He had three siblings: a brother called Mr Cheesy, a sister called Miss Cracker and another sister called Miss Butter.
Elmgrove Primary School, P6
18th October 2023
Fire Dog was a collie and he had been in the dog adoption centre for two or three months. One day a family showed up and picked him because they thought he was cute. Fire Dog was really shy, and then he spotted something on the first day. He barked curiously at an immense bee. The big bee buzzed back.
“Hey, what’s your name? I’ve never seen a bee your size before...”
Mossley Primary School, P6
17th October 2023
One day as Alfie was coming out of school he saw a capybara and turned into it.
He went home and showed his best friend Jimmy who is a 100 foot rat. Jimmy was scared because there hadn’t been an animagus for over 100 years, because they got extinct as a big chocolate meteor fell on them and they turned into chocolate unicorns and hot chocolate...
