Educating Risa

 

My friend Alicia, who writes an online homeschooling column, offered some new pictoral story starters for February, and Daegan wrote a story about an evil magician and a man with a giant purple ear. It’s been published in Alicia’s column, just as Gareth’s polar bear story was last month. Here is the text of Daegan’s story, along with a picture he drew:

The Man with the Giant Purple Ear

Once upon a time there was a man with a giant purple ear. There was a magician who pressed a magic button that grows ears big and purple. He was an evil magician, who was grumpy all the time. He was lonely and had no friends because everyone was scared of him.

But the man with the giant purple ear was not scared of him. He didn’t see him often and didn’t know much about the evil magician. The man was always smiley, because he had wonderful adventures, like going to planet Bee-Bop where everything makes music. Then he went to planet Jungle where there are amazing jungle creatures like the ammonia lizard. The ammonia lizard has a big head but it has very small legs, and a long tail. The evil magician followed the man to the planet Jungle. The man with the giant ear sees other creatures like the alamonia lizard. It has a skinny head.

The evil magician saw the man always smiling. On Bee-Bop he could hear the music better, and on Jungle he was able to hear the lizards talking to one another. This made the man happy, so he kept smiling.

The evil magician pushed the reverse button because his plan didn’t work. He wanted to make the man not smile, and be grumpy like him. Then the man told jokes to the evil magician and they were VERY funny. The evil magician smiled and he laughed. He wasn’t grumpy anymore. He and the man became friends. He wasn’t so evil after all.

The End.

 

Here’s one the lizards from planet Jungle: