One day we were walking through a spooky forest and we found a suitcase with lots of stickers all over it. We opened it up and it sucked us all in! We went straight to a fairy tale land where at first we met the three little pigs who were building a house of bricks. Some of us decided to stay and help and the others carried on…

We soon came across a girl called Little Bo Peep who was upset and had lost her sheep. She asked us if we would help to look for them. We said yes, but on the way came across a creepy, wobbly bridge. We decided to walk across but saw that there was an ugly, mean, ginormous troll underneath. We were scared but walked across anyway. He jumped on top of the bridge and we screamed. He looked scared too and told us that he was in fact a friendly troll and he would help us to look for the sheep. We carried on with our journey.

As we walked on, we stumbled across a boy, a little older than us trying to climb up an enormous beanstalk that rose into the clouds. We knew from the storybooks that this was Jack.

He told us that he was climbing the beanstalk to find food for him and his poor mother. From the top of the beanstalk we could hear a strange sound, we decided to climb up and investigate. It was a very long way up. When we reached the top we spotted loads of tiny footprints. The enormous friendly troll, whose name was John said ‘I smell sheep, and I recognise these footprints’.

The footprints led us to a castle where we found not only the sheep but a giant lady and she was crying. John the Troll asked her what was wrong. She told us she was lonely and took the sheep to make her happy. We told her that the sheep belong to little Bo Peep. The giant whose name was Daphne let us take the sheep back to little Bo Peep. She gave Jack a golden egg so he and his mother would no longer be poor and John the Troll and Daphne got married and lived happily ever after.

by Reception pupils from The Russell, Lowther and St. Edmund’s primary schools