Every morning, brilliant new stories are written by primary schoolchildren.They are all stored in our library (the stories, not the children). To read the stories and see the pictures, just click on the title or read more to view stories.
We also have stories from our other locations: Cork, Galway, Kerry, Mayo, NorthWest, and Wicklow
Pope John Paul II NS, Malahide, 5th Class, 21st May 2019
There was once a duck named Ducky. Ducky was a very small duck at first.
He wanted to be the biggest duck in the world.
Ducky grew up in a sugar cane field in Papua New Guinea with his best mate Phillipio the Banana Bird.
Presentation Primary School Terenure, 3rd Class, 20 May 2019
Once upon a time, there was a pig called Piggy Doodle who lived in a house.
Piggy Doodle had a sidekick – he was a dog called Cat.
All Piggy Doodle ever wanted was to have a pool full of chocolate but his owners had other ideas.
Feile Londubh Festival, 19 th May 2019
Once upon a time there was a Nike runner called Schue. Schue was having a horrible time.
Every time his owner, Emma, went on a walk he was plunged into mud and poo and somehow his twin Sue always avoided it.
Sue always teased Schue about his owner dropping him to the charity shop and keeping only Sue because Schue was too dirty to wear
Roundwood NS, 3rd Class, County Wicklow, 16th May 2019
Zack was having his breakfast with Finn the Ketchup Bottle. Finn decides to ask him his greatest wish.
“My greatest wish is to be a pink flying unicorn.” Then a talking pickle appears at the house.
Zack points and says “that is my greatest fear”.
St Mary’s National School, Fairview, 4th Class, 16 May 2019
Once upon a cheese, there was a koala called Boo. He had penguin flippers and elf ears.
Boo lived in a bungalow in a forest in Tibequador.
Boo loved to play video games. He lived with his grandmother but he was afraid of her.
Greystones Community School, County Wicklow, 15th May, 2019
One day, Mrs. Candyfloss was walking to Sweet Island.
Mr. Gumball was walking on the other side of the road, he crossed the road to get to the bridge to the Island.
They had just come back from a Carnival.
Educate Together, Whitemill North, 6th Class, County Wexford
One day Humphrey was hungry.
Humphrey really liked stone bacon.
Then Gunther’s mother comes in and gets assassinated by the butcher.
St Killian’s National School, Mullagh, Co. Cavan, 5th Class, 15 May 2019
One day at the Centra in Mullagh, a sausage roll was being made. But this was no ordinary sausage roll.
The new deli worker, Barack Obama, was listening to his favourite DJ music by Drake.
As he was making the sausage roll, his AirPods fell into the mix.
Scoil Cholmcille, 3rd class, County Wicklow, 14th May 2019
Once upon a time there lived a Cat called Bob who had Magical powers.
He was able to talk human and disappear at anytime.
One day he was asleep up an oak tree in Africa. His friend, Billy the Snakey Mouse was visiting him because it was Saturday.
St Patrick’s SNS, Blanchardstown, 4th Class, 14th May 2019
Once upon a time there was a grape with a sword called John. He lived in a Pringle house.
There was a war going on and he was one of the great warriors. John nearly died in the war but Pringle Man saved him.
After he was saved, John thanked Pringle Man and asked him, “Do you want to be friends?”
Scoil Chill Ruadháin, 4th Class, County Cork, 10 March 2017
Once upon a time, there was a boy and his name was Jeffrey.
A good many years ago (in dragon years, ten human years is actually one dragon year) he fell down a hole and met this girl, Demolita.
She gave him a drink that was poisoned and made him turn into a half-dragon, half-human.
North Monastery Primary School, 5th Class, County Cork, 03 March 2017
It all started when Chewey Lewey yelled out “Alien Bob! I need toilet paper!”
“Be quiet! The demon might hear you.”
“I don’t care about that demon!” exclaimed Chewey Lewey. “Who’s that demon anyway?”
Scoil Barra Buachaillí/Beaumont Boys, County Cork, 2nd Class, 17th February 2017
Once upon a time in a DogLand far far away, when a dog made his own planet, Da Legend Pug would rise and be the hero of his land. His best friend is Ze Legend Doge.
Far far away in the planet of Earth there’s The Evil Chewahaha trying to take over his planet and he doesn’t even know about it.
Ze Legend Doge is spying on Earth to see what the Evil Chewaha is doing.
Blarney Street Boys National School, County Cork, 3rd Class, 10 February 2017
Once upon a time, there was a doughnut who called himself Donny the Doughnut.
Donny the Doughnut didn’t like the other doughnuts because they were trying to take his place at being the greatest doughnut of all time.
And there was his best friend, Harry the Hotdog. Donny the Doughnut was sad since a lot of his friends were eaten.
Blarney Street Boys National School, County Cork, 4th Class 07 February 2017
It was 1977. Bottle flipping was just made up by a random guy on the street. There was a bottle flipping competition on Bear Lake.
Skeldrik wanted to sign up for the bottle flipping competition.
He had to go to Albert Street to sign up. They wouldn’t let him sign up because he was a skeleton.
St Vincents G.N.S. County Cork, 3rd and 4th Class, 27th January 2017
One day there was a girl called Ellie and her best friend was a dog called Diggy.
Ellie could see magical creatures. They went out to the park and they were playing ball. It was getting dark.
Then there was a big cackle and there was a bully disguised as a clown.
St Vincent’s GNS, County Cork, 3rd Class, 20 January 2017
Once there was a little girl called Emily who lived in an orphanage.
When she was smaller her mom and dad died.
When Emily grew older she met a friend called Buddy the Dog.
St. Vincent’s Convent Primary School, St. Mary’s Rd, Cork, 4th Class 13th Jan 2016
Billy Bob Joe was day-dreaming in school of being an astronaut.
He lived in America. He was meant to be doing his maths but instead he was drawing pictures of himself in space.
The teacher asked him for his maths, but there was none there, it was full of drawings.
Scoil Mhuire, Shankill, 3rd class, County Wicklow, 22nd November 2018
Once upon a time there was a man called Jeff who was rich. Jeff was very friendly, but sassy sometimes.
He started to go call for his friend Fire, who was a phoenix. He told him about his greatest wish:
“I want to be a turtle with super powers!” Jeff said.
St. Andrew’s NS, 2nd class, County Wicklow, 21st November 2018
Once upon a time, there lived a snake called Hissy,
He flew over to his best friend, Shiny the Unicorn because they were having a sleep over.
Shiny gave Hissy his super powers long ago.
Kilcoole Primary School, 6th class, County Wicklow, 20th November 2018
Bang…an explosion woke Tommy up. “Ah leave me alone” he shouted.
He thought they had come to get him but then realised his cell was destroyed.
He looked at the cracked walls of his grey room and then Bryan, his dumb friend, walked in with a bunch of dynamite, and shouted;
Powerscourt National School, 1st and 2nd Class, County Wicklow 15th November 2018
Tom was a smart young boy.
He likes to get things right and getting people to be happy.
He didn’t want to break his Mum’s favourite ornament.
Gorey ETNS 5th Class, County Wicklow, 14th November 2018
One spring day in 2019, Umi had to move in with her auntie and uncle because her parents had neglected her.
She didn’t like them but she liked her auntie and uncle because of where they lived and their personalities.
But one night, when she was going to bed she dreamed about going into the forest.
St. Fergal’s NS, 3rd class, County Wicklow, 13th November 2018
Once upon a time, there was a pepperoni pizza slice called Pizza Hat.
He had a best friend called Pat the Pepperoni.
They lived in a town called Pizza Valley.
Powerscourt NS, 3rd & 4th Class, County Wicklow, 8th November 2018
Not very long ago somewhere on Neptune-Doodle Bob was swimming in the sea and he met a baby octopus.
“Hello Squiggle” said Doodle Bob.
“Hello to you too”, said Squiggle. “What have you been doing Doodle Bob?”
Gorey ETNS, 5th class, County Wicklow, 7th November 2018
Once upon a time, a man called Juan, was building a house. He looked around and saw a squirrel.
“Oh, you’re a pleasant looking squirrel, I’m going to call you Plonky!” Juan said throwing him a few peanuts.
But just then he saw a flying brick that hit the squirrel and injured it.
St. Rose’s, 4th class, County Wicklow, 6th November 2018
Once upon a time there was a pig called Billy who married Santa.
One day he saw a slice of bread, put cheese on it and toasted it.
Suddenly a bear fell into the kitchen – it was Josephine the big bad bear.
St Kevin’s, Tarahill, 5th class, County Wicklow, 25th October 2018
I was in a horrible dream with zombie leprechauns. It was blurry, but I remember them all screaming my name: “Valerie Blue”.
I screamed, and my mother came to my side. My mum had to tell me the horrible news that Fruit-Juice Man had died.
The only thing I had left of him was his last bottle.
