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What a great day! Everything came together -- great ideas and drawings that just seemed to work. Here are the stories we invented.
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The four ingredients: a friendly girl at Antarctica looking for a polar bear eating a taco up against a guy riding a horse
The story: A friendly girl goes on vacation to the South Pole, where global warming has turned it into a warm paradise. A polar bear comes all the way south to cool off on ice only to find one chunk left!
He's really hungry, so he grabs a taco from the local restaurant, the Burrito Bandito. But since he didn't pay, the guy who owns the store comes riding out after him.
Good thing the girl is there to give him a welcoming hug!
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The four ingredients: a dog in a dress on a pirate ship looking to learn something up against a puppy
The story: our hero this story is a girl who wants to go to a fancy party but has to babysit her little brother. He promises to let her go if she'll play on his pirate ship. It's just an old boat out by a dock.
He wants her to do one more thing: feed his pet. She thinks, "Sure, it's just an imaginary pet."
I guess she was a little surprised!
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The Workshop Stories
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This is a fun story about an elephant who has a lucky peanut. One day, the peanut is missing! Who took it? The monkey with whom he never gets along. Mean monkey!
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Here's how mean he is: he put the peanut at the top of a mountain where the wind comes from. (We got that idea from the doodle we made on the right.) The elephant goes to get it and there is the monkey laughing at him. But then, the wind starts to blow from the hole in the mountain. It blows the monkey right off the top! But the elephant saves him and has only one more reach to get his peanut!
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I'll admit it. I don't like to draw grandmothers. They're just not my thing. But this story was so good, I made myself try.
We imagined a cool tale where a girl suspects that her grandmother is a famous criminal who was never caught.
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How does she know that? Because she found an ancient artifact that she knew had never been recovered after it was stolen years ago.
But she just isn't sure, so while she's at her grandma's weekly party, she sneaks through the house, trying to find Edison's glasses -- something she thinks her grandma might have. And she finds them! But her grandma has found her!
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Here's another really inventive story. A teddy bear knows that he is really good at making nightmares go away for the boy who owns him. But one day, the boy disappears into a nightmare. So the bear keeps trying to have the same nightmare so he can rescue him.
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In the picture, we can see the bear ready to challenge the Nightmare King for the boy. What's the challenge? A pillow fight! Only, the bear has a secret ingredient in his pillow. He's got two of his squirrel friends who will take on the King while the bear rescues his boy.
Way to go Teddy!
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