Stories by the students of Karoo Primary School

I was pretty tired after Book Week last and so apolo­gies to the grade five and six stu­dents of Karoo Pri­mary School for not get­ting their sto­ries up sooner.

Karoo Pri­mary out in Rowville was my last Book Week stop and, as had been the case at all the schools I vis­ited, the sto­ries that came out of our writing/blogging work­shop­ping ses­sions were fantastic.

All week I was run­ning ses­sions that empha­sised cre­at­ing sto­ries that had sur­pris­ing char­ac­ters, plots and end­ings. The Bor­ing is not the friend of the Book. And so here are the final three sto­ries that came out of Book Week — which is a sad thing because now I have to go back to try­ing to write sto­ries on my own.

THE COUCH POTATO

by the Grade 5 & 6 Stu­dents of Karoo PS

There was a man once called Duza, who sat on his couch 24/7 and he ate lots of potato chips as he watched TV and played videogames and knit­ted. He started grow­ing pota­toes in the couch and he got infected by one of the pota­toes and he lit­er­ally into a couch potato.

El TACO

by the Grade 5 & 6 Stu­dents of Karoo PS

In a Mex­i­can Restau­rant is el super hero Taco. He sees his friend Cor­nelius Taco who is sleep­ing and a model picks Cor­nelius up and puts him in her mouth. He (El Taco) makes a rope out of his cheese, swings down, sprays salsa in the model’s eyes and she screams and drops Cor­nelius who is a soft taco who doesn’t get hurt

BOB THE HUMAN TURTLE

by the Grade 5 & 6 Stu­dents of Karoo PS

There was an old man called Bob who had a tur­tle shell on his back. The shell was used as a back­pack. In it was a walk­ing stick and his favourite hanky. One day he came across a bunch of kids who stole his anti-snoring cream. He wanted to get revenge so he put them straight into his tur­tle shell backpack.

(By the way, the art­work for Bob the Human Tur­tle is kind of abstract. But I invite you to turn your head on an angle and see if you can see the tur­tle and the back­pack in there — AM)