Narration: The Enchanted Princess (part 1)

TITLE: The Enchanted Princess (from the collection, Stories From Bengal)
AUTHOR: Betsey Bang

NARRATION: There was a raja and he had seven ranis. They had no sons. And then a man gave them a root and told them to pound it well and eat it and they will have sons. So the five eldest ate so much that there was none left for the other ranis, Middle Rani and Little Rani. The other ranis laughed at them and said that if they had children it would be an owl and a monkey. They gave birth to baby boys and there were five boys and Middle Rani had an owl and Little Rani had a monkey. And then everybody cheered because they had sons. But no one asked about Middle Rani and Little Rani and they were put work in the garden as slaves. Little Rani had to get fuel for the palace and Middle Rani had to sweep the garden and feed the birds.

The princes grew up to be big and they ran around and around and around. They were not nice. They rode their pegasuses and beheaded people. But the owl and the monkey grew up in the garden. One day, the owl and the monkey got out of the garden and went to the gatekeeper. The gatekeeper asked "Who are you?" and they said, "I'm the monkey prince." "And I'm the owl prince."The gate keeper opened the gate and they went to the raja, and the monkey prince sat on his lap and the owl prince sat on his shoulder. They said "Father!" And the raja had tears in his eyes, he cried for joy.

One day, an enchanted princess came and the ranis wanted their sons to look for her kingdom, so they set off in peacock boats. The monkey and the owl princes said "We need to go too in our own peacock boats." So they went home, and the ranis said, "Our sons should go too." So they made little canoes and painted them a beautiful color.

REVIEW: So far I think that it is a rather long story. I think that it is a very unusual story because there is almost no way humans could give birth to a monkey and an owl. That means this story is not a true story. Those two girls could not have given birth to an owl and a monkey. And that's all I think about it so far.

Narration: Once a mouse

TITLE: Once a mouse
AUTHOR: Marcia Brown

NARRATION: There was once a mouse who got chased by a hawk and then a man picked up and took him home. The man was a hermit. The hermit turned the mouse into a cat because the cat was trying to eat the mouse. And then a dog tried to eat the mouse-cat so then the hermit turned the cat into a dog. And then the dog got chased by a tiger, then the dog got turned into a royal tiger and roamed about the forest. He thought he was so pretty and he bragged and bragged and bragged. The hermit said you are a too braggy, I am going to turn you back into a mouse. The tiger thought "I'm going to eat him." But the hermit read his mind and said "Go back into the forest and be a mouse again." He turned him back into a mouse and the mouse never came back. The end.

REVIEW: I did not like this story because I think the mouse never came back because somebody ate up the mouse. I learned a hermit sits far away from other people and thinks, thinks, thinks, thinks.

Time and Webkinz

I learned about time today. But I didn't really get it with Ruffruff. And then I read about India with my mommy and Ruffruff. I have no idea what Indian people thought about other countries and now I am writing in my blog with me.

My webkinz have very good manners. Ruffruff is, I mean was, my very second webkinz. My very first webkinz was Whitey. Tart was my very third. And now Spotty, who is my very fourth, and Mimi, who I don't know where she is, was my very fifth. And I hope soon another one will be my very fifth, but I don't know when that will be.

Now I will let Ruffruff explain himself:
[in a doggy voice] My name is Ruffruff and I have 4 sisters. I think you've heard that. Now I've been learning a lot in Webkinz world. Usually I've been doing hair styling very good, but eight days ago the last time I was doing hair styling I did it wrong just for fun and I had to leave the class. That's the best class I'm in so far and I'm doing very very well. Now should I let my sister introduce herself?

She's a little shy so I'm going to have to talk for her. She says that she doesn't want to talk because she thinks that you're a monster and I think that's very silly. Because a computer is nothing like a monster, it's more like a robot, but she says she's scared of robots. I have to introduce her. She's Tart. She's a very sweet little terrier and I think I forgot to tell you this in my bit but I'm a collie.

Whitey actually never likes to talk to people she doesn't know so I'm going to have to talk for her as well. Whitey is very special because she's the only french poodle in my family. Actually there's another french poodle and that's my wife, who is a french poodle. She's very lovely and pink. But Whitey's much older than her. That's all about Whitey because she say's she's embarrassed and I don't know why. She's just a little crazy.

The end. Love from Whitey, Tart and me, Ruffruff.

My first entry

I love my family. My name is Little Flower on this blog. I really like writing and it's kind of fun to have your very own journal in the computer. I will write about my family, starting where I was born. Let me see...when I was two I really liked the teachers there, they were very nice. Now I will tell you the names of them. Well the one I like the best is practically the only boy teacher in the whole school. His name is Willy. He still babysits me and my little brother. He's my little brother's teacher now. All the rest of the teachers were girls. I'll tell you all their names: okay, Eileen, Elaine, Blanca, Jennifer, Chika and those are mostly all the teachers I remember their names.

Well, now I'm homeschooling because all the schools my mom checked out she didn't like, except one, but there was too many kids. I liked it. I've been studying about Egypt. And after that I've been studying about Mohenjo-daro. In Egypt I liked the pyramids the best. And in Mohenjo-daro, well in that I don't quit know yet because I haven't read all the things yet.

The End.