‘Your wish is granted,’ the genie said smugly ( Alexa Potter) ‘Also, what is your name?’ Jordan curiously asked. Your wish is granted!’Īll of a sudden the faint noises of his big brother screaming and his little sister crying all vanished. “’Well,’ he stammered ‘first of all I would love some peace and quiet!’ There were also some clever stories involving wishes: I was impressed by Joe’s Sugrue’s concept of Jordan being stuck in an endless loop (where he keeps finding a packet of seeds and replanting them) and Millie Balsom’s nicely structured story in which the seed created a hole that took Jordan back in time. He let out a growl.”Īnother theme which emerged was portals opening to another world or time. He now had a long snout with smoke streaming out of two big nostrils, he also had leathery wings and a tail. He leapt to a nearby pond and checked his reflection in the water. He had talons for toes and scales for skin. And Neve Overend created a nice twist in her story by turning an unlikeable Jordan into a dragon: I especially liked Tom Ambury’s camel-dragon who could spit water over long distances. Some of the seeds grew into sea creatures - a monsterpus ( Lucas Yee), a turtle egg ( Lachie) and a shimmering sea-flower that lets you breathe under the sea ( Lark) - or even more unusual things like dancing trolls ( Lorenzo) and a giant basketball court ( Hayden).ĭryads and dragons also featured prominently. “The thing was getting under his feet and mum would be mad, no, livid, no incandescent with rage. Dora Zhang created a rare magic ink plant, and Zoe - a crazy vine that followed Jordan everywhere: “He hoped it would work because it was one he made and it wasn’t a real one.”Īddisen came up with some amazing hopping vegetables that hid themselves in with the normal vegetables and Freddie Read’s story had bulbs which grew legs and ate everything in sight. Liam’s plant grew so tall Jordan had to climb back down to get a spacesuit he’d made in class: “It was a hideous, weird, purple and yellow plant that towered up at least 6 metres in the air and it stunk like rotten cabbage!” ( Leon) There were also Venus Flytraps and plants too awful to be named: “Īs well as the many giant beanstalks there were money trees, lolly trees, a blue mandarin tree and a huge purple oak. Holding the weed killer up like a gun, he yells ‘show yourself’ … and there it was at the edge of the garden. “Jordan barely escapes, gets up and runs to the garden shed, grabs the can and runs outside. Aurelia Lind wrote a fast paced mystery thriller: There were fairy tales gone wrong, horror stories laced with comedy, ghost stories, heist stories and even a sports story. I loved the mix of all the different styles and genres. And the entries kept rolling in – all 120 of them. The standard of writing was the highest I’ve seen yet. Oh my goodness! This was by far the most difficult Fabo Story round I have judged in all my (yikes, nine) years of being part of the Fabo Story team.
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