All Stories page 19

Stories including "Halloween Ghosts at Hampton Court Palace" and "Birdy and the Seagulls".

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    Halloween Ghosts at Hampton Court Palace

    Jana and Sheila with Henry VIII in Haunted Gallery at Hampton Court

    History meets Halloween at Hampton Court when Jana goes on a Ghost tour of King Henry VIII’s palace and hears some very spooky stories.

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    Birdy and the Seagulls

    Birdy seagulls

    Jake’s best friend is a crow called Birdy who can talk – but nobody else in Jake’s life has heard Birdy speak. Some seagulls have nested on Jake’s roof and are bothering the workmen on the roof. Birdy comes to help

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    Pet Writing Competition Results Part 2

    Pet Writing Competition Results Part 2

    More winners from our Pet Writing Competition with stories from all over the world about your very special pets.

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    Pet Writing Competition Results Part 1

    Pet Writing Competition Results Part 1

    Our latest writing competition results are in ! Thank you to EVERYONE who sent us a story. They were all wonderful, and as ever, it was very hard to pick the winners. We present the first batch of four stories here, with three more winners to follow soon.

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    Herodotus: The Gods of Ancient Egypt

    Egyptian Anubis (with dog head) weighing heart of dead Osiris and Isis look on

    Herodotus often wrote about the Egyptian gods under Greek names. He thought the Egyptian gods were more or less the same as the Greek ones. Was he right?

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    The Town Musicians of Bremen

    The town musicians of Bremen, a dog, a cat, a rooster, and a donkey

    This amusing story by the Brothers Grimm is about four farm animals, a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster, who believe they can earn a good living as musicians. But it isn’t really by the sweetness of their barking, braying, mewing, and cockle-doodle-doing that gets their supper.

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    Herodotus – The River Nile

    Boat on Nile in ancient Egypt

    Herodotus visited Egypt and devoted the Second Book of his Histories to its wonders. He called Egypt the “Gift of the Nile” and looked at varios theories about where its true source was, and why it flooded its banks every year.

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    Pet Writing Competition

    frog, rabbit, cat, goldfish, dog, guinea pig, tortoise, lizzard

    Send us your ‘Real Life’ story about your very Special Pet by 22nd September.  Winners to be read out here on Storynory

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    The Magician’s Horse

    Boy Horse Castle

    A boy makes friends with a white horse who has a very special talent – she can talk ! 

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    The Crow and his Friends

    Crow, dear, mouse, and tortoise in Indian forest - four friends.

    A story from ancient India, in which a crow makes friends with three animals that are very different from him, and together they face dangers.