Story made up by Reception Children at Leighswood School Aldridge in 2002.  Click on the pictures for better quality copies

Sally is a dinosaur, big, tall and wide.    She has no hair, but scaly skin, with spikes on her back and her tail.  She has two faces, next to each other, one friendly and one scary. She has two mouths and giant teeth like a bear.  Sally is a happy and friendly dinosaur, but people are scared of her.

Sally lives in the trees and woods, in her big nest full of babies.  She collects food for them every day, potatoes, carrots, grapes, tomatoes, bananas, oranges and apples. 

One day as Sally is collecting food, she sees a balloon floating past.  It is all the colours of the rainbow, and Sally decides to try and catch it.  It is blowing up and down like a wave in the wind, and however hard she tries, Sally cannot catch it.  She follows it out of the woods, and all the way across the sea to People Island.

The first people on People Island that see Sally are the boys in the garden.  They tell everyone that a dinosaur is coming, and everyone on the island is frightened.  They think Sally is going to eat them.

Sally chases the balloon all over People Island, and as she chases it, she finds lots of other balloons.  But with claws on her feet she cannot pick them up.    Every balloon she touches with her claws goes ‘Pop’.  In the end she gets close enough to the rainbow balloon to catch it, she reaches out with her mouth, thinking it is a whole rainbow sweet, opens wide, and snaps her sharp teeth on the balloon.  ‘Bang’, it bursts.

Sally does a big loud dinosaur scream, turns and runs all the way back to her nest, as fast as she can. 

And the people on People Island have never seen her since that day.

THE END