The Surprise Present, 2007-09-08*

I love how she builds up the suspense in this story with the surprise present - you have to hear her tell it to really appreciate it.

Listen to Bethany tell this story HERE.


I want you to listen! You have to sit down.

Corin lived in a long long village where a BANG came, then everybody SAW someone was there coming near them - it was a monster.

Chapter 14. With Aladar Corin.

With Aladar Corin was a monster. He scared everybody. Also Aladar and Corin and T-Rex and Tyrannosaurus and Pish and Corin and Pith and Corip, Piff and Corin and Chorin and Pith and Corythosaurus and Corip and Geem and Corip and Sikh, Seagull and Torin. He.. He was… he was… Chapter Fiveteen.

Chapter Fifteen. With Aladar Corin.

Aladar Corin was VERY VERY disappointed. “Are you disappearing?” he said.

“Aladar, I WILL get you to Turin Lane (?). And you been very naughty today. And all your friends have GONE away, and you have to be with lessons.”

“Aww, sorry ma… sorry mommy. I will be drink… I have to drink and go away.” He goed away for a second. Then he didn’t come back.

“COME ON! I GOT A SURPRISE FOR YOU!” said his mommy.

“What surprise is it?” he come back and said. “What sort of surprise do you got for me?” he asked.

“It’s a Nineown that you never seen before. I will open it for you.” So she opened it.

“Huhh!” Then he saw!

He get open it. Then he get to open ANOTHER one! And everybody saw!

Then Corin said, “Huhhh! A present??” He take it. Then Aladar shared with him. THEN, thank. So he let. THEN, he let another one.

Then someone said, “Is this a nice place?” he said, in a gloomily. In a nine place.

“It’s just a nice moonlight (laughs loudly). It my present, it’s Pin. Pin my present, but he‘s very small for now. He will grow bigger if I turn him to a Norip.”

Then he let there was Norip, when it grown up, and he became bigger and bigger like he friends.

So they walked and walked with Aladar’s per monkey, whose name was that they don’t know. Without a court, but with a sharp thing that Aladar Corin don’t know.

Aladar said, “It’s a poem that my monkey is holding.”

“Ah, maybe I don’t know the thing that you just said to me.” And they left.

“I WILL CLEAN!!!” He calmed back with a sword. Keep… keep… keep and Jill and thing and Ping and Pink and T-Rex and Pish and Chorin and T-Rex and Corin and Aladar and Jill. They all Aladar Corin’s friends.

Kip said, “I WON’T DO THIS! I WON’T DO THIS!!! I WON’T DO THIS! I WON’T DO THIS! I won‘t do this. I won‘t do this. I won‘t do this. I won‘t do this. I won‘t do this. I won‘t do this. I won‘t do this. I WON’T DO THIS! I WON’T DO THIS! I won‘t do this. I won‘t do this. I won‘t do this. I won‘t do this. I won‘t do this. I won‘t do this. I will hide, I will hide, I will hide…” (Collapses into laughter).

Without a Home, 2007-09-08

They shouldn’t. The Nineown Open Plains. There be no vultures. Corin without.
The Nineown Open Plains. (Indecipherable phrase).
The Nineown Open Plains. Shift, Aladar. Illustrations by Aladar.

“Dear old friend, I declare you to come.”

Corin was living in a dark orip pin, that led to the darkest very deep narrow no one dare go there, not go near it because there was monster.

“Dear old friend, I declare you to come to my highness.”

“(High squeaky voice, chanting) Am I nine peek, am I nine peek, nine own peek… the end.”

Chapter One. Without a Home.

Without a home, he was very disappointing in the stuff. He sleep again than to go out and play in the garden. And he was very angry indeed. He said, “Mype? Can you go without it? And my upbeat(?) is this belly button, so you have to go on my belly button please.”

They went, and went in his belly button. Then was worried, will wipe it though, we with bad germs and stuff. They was only with Orin.

Chapter Two. Without a Home.

Corin lunged, they didn’t look quite the hurry. And they were VERY disappointed, and Aladar disappointed and DIP disappointed and ALADAR disappointed. He was very different, in dust were some trees (???).

Chapter Three. Without a Home.

WITHOUT out a hurry, he was living in a little cottage. And the others said, “Up up up. And up and up. Up up up.”

“I shouldn’t do this.”

“Up up up.”

“THERE will be no hurry without my Corin please. I will be with you there.” Only Norin away from pain. He chuckled around, and Norin didn’t look for the orange Orin. But he have to be with it, and only a noise came from the banging and probably will be with it. The sound will us will be with it but Dean(?) own end. He will be without, out it. He will be without it. And let out it was VERY VERY disappointed, his stuff, Corin. “(In an undertone) Corin did eat my Panadol…”

“He very..”

“Sssh!”

“Hmm.. Can we make one, another one to come? Please brachiosaurus. Please, can we make another one to come with us?”

“Nope… err… sorry.”

“But what about try again? Please try again, please. Please try again, please. That’s how is it.”

“(Sings) A B C D E F G, H I J K L M N O P..”

Of Orin, Orip, Norin, Corin and others, 2007-09-07

OK, this story is very confusing because she’s not only started using a bunch of names she made up for her characters, but also a bunch of words she’s made up that mean things she’s assigned them to mean - some of these words are her own invented words, but others are actually English words that she uses in her own way.


“We haven’t. We haven’t do watch it yet,” he said, from my right picking out the icon that they have load before their time. They haven’t do it before.

They kept in the lake, then it was full of tread marks, then they stepped out it. Their feet was not wet. They were wearing slippers, and very deep end pond. It was Orip said. Orip was living in Orin’s new house. He did encourage them, because he was sick and soon tell the others. He was living in a little cottage. It was at the edge of the pond there. He was a Nineown frog that we never met before, and he lived near got in an Orin Norin place that led to the other side. He was not Orin’s friend. He was only a Corip goon, with Aladar’s Corin. He said, “I own this house,” he said to heself. “Maybe I should wander out.” He did out.

He said he was very thick and deep, and own a Orip. Orip was living in a little cottage, at the other side of the horses. He came in this story… he didn’t look like that.

Dragging his sand pit, there was a doors and other thingymajiggies. He wanted them to be without hoppers, and they wanted out. He was looked out. “I shouldn’t do this.” He was very troubled indeed, and he was aching with mad. And he said, “My, I’m just bit annoyed.”

Page 54. They looked outside. Peaceful Corin was living in an Orin Norin place, that led to the other side of the court. It was very nice and deep. Only some orips and some corins lived in the pond. In the pond, they stepped out from the other lake, they goed inside another lake that lead to the other side. It was not very deep and pondy, it was just reading a copper burned babe (??) of books. Books will lead to the other side. It was very readable, to be without a hopper. Without hoppers all dinosaurs live in land and a hout(?) all hosted in the middle. It said, “Hoot hoot, hoot hoot.” Then everybody jumped in back and then didn’t know what it was hooting for that.

Without. Without was very very angry indeed. He lived in a long long village, but no one he knew lived there. He was very angry in the storeroom, because someone locked him up. And there used a handkerchief and knocked him over. Then he was very very angry indeed, but not for long. He stopped and said, “Mype.. Can you do this every day and night?” He started be angrier, then he said “(Very angry voice!) MYPE!!! CAN YOU???”

“Aww… can you do it please? We want to go out, for the night. Can you get it out?”

They started and started. Chapter one. Without.

The started and started and started, until there was no ground, and it shaking… there was Corin and Norin. Indeed he was happy indeed. Very happy, very happy.

“Ah… sorry!”

And very very very… he was very angry indeed. “In one of the store rooms… how did someone lock him up again?”

“AW, sorry!” he said, the one (indecipherable) very angry.

“I knew. I knew this is Norin’s house.”

“Aw, can we go to the Interstate please?”

“Nope! Because there‘s lots of things there, in there. I no go to there before. And the Interstate is very yucky indeed. And very yucky, very yucky. And very annoying, and no one been there before.”

“Aaah… aah… ah! I wander out!” Chapter Three. They Wandered Out.

“Ah, I wandered out, in the Orin (indecipherable). There will be no flowers or no trees, but only corins.” Then not, they stepped into the lake. He goed down the lake, THEN they saw… someone living in the lake. They stepped on him, then he said, “Ouchie, who’s stepping on me?”

“WE ARE!!! Because we want to go to the Interstate.” They stepped on him, another man and another man and another man. So heavy these men.

“Ouchie! They shouldn’t be stepped on. You might not be angry… there might be fun…” then he stepped on them.

“Ah! They stepping on us. What shall we do?”

“I got a lift. We should go.” And they goed and they goed and they goed. Because Kip said, “Hi! I’m dare. I dare to close my eyes because it‘s very noisy and very noisy indeed, and very shouty and someone might see my (indecipherable), the eyes.”

Mmh. So close their eyes, until no fight(?) and…. Chapter Five. Looked outside.

Looked outside was very very angry…

(recording stops here)

More Little Tractor, 2007-09-07

All these stories featuring the little tractor are her own spin on the Ladybird book, The Little Blue Tractor. Unlike her Aladar stories, these are not out of thin air ;)


They didn’t wanted to do it anymore. Only a knight came from the edge, from the box. Then the little tractor was worried and scared, and so cosy. And he snuggled up and said, “Please... I can’t go inside a box again. No. Because I’m just Orin, who was not bad. Can you please come out from your knight suit?”

“My car wants to do anything,” said the little tractor, “can you come with me, cows?”

“No, but I can’t,” said the cows, “because I’m the owner of this place! And I didn‘t want anybody to stop on my door like that. So just keep out,” said the cows. “Moo, without my hurry..”

He kept the hens. Then the hens said, “What do you want?”

“I want my pipe to be filled up with lot of animals.”

“Oh, we can’t.” So they hopped in his little barn and he drove away.

After he wanted the others, the cows want hopped into his barn, then he drove away.

He get the piggies. Then he get the sheep. Then he get the ducks. He was VERY happy with this one, his NEW animals, until the horse… he forgot the horse. He didn’t mind. He get a horse locked in the cage up and he gathered around him. And the horse gathered around him.

“Quack quack, quack quack.” There’s two or more. His mother’s want more. “I want more, you have to hurry to get one of them.” he get one of the sheep, in case it was extra and very large and big. It was like a giant. It was 20 feet tall! He could step on it. He drived and drived until it didn’t came. Didn’t came and “Meh meh meh.” He get one of the other sheeps then. He get a male one. It was a VERY VERY BIG one, then he didn’t came.

“I didn’t know it. (Sad voice) He empty few barn… I shouldn‘t do that.”

“My new highness,” said the man comfortably, and sitting in a chair reading his newspaper. “My peep paper.”

Little tractor said, “I peep with papers. Different. Peeked those new barns. Peek those new barns. I peeked at people that covered the nursery rhyme, my nursery rhymed.” He peeked inside. Someone reading. One of them was reading his nursery rhyme. He peeked inside, then he get inside the very snow winter of the days. He goed inside the house, then the little tractor went off to find his new animals. It was very long to take the, a tractor was holding one of his favourite cars of all. He get his favourite car, then he drived inside, then he goed outside again. It taked too long. “My back!”

“I think one of them will come.” It was piglet. (Shocked exclamation). He stayed for a long time!!!

“Ponk ponk, ponk ponk!” It taked a very long time to go there. It taked a very long time to go there. He goed and goed. And for a second, the little tractor leaved someone behind. It was the sheep. Then the sheep said, “Why he leaving us behind? Hmph!”

He leaved them behind, all the animals behind. Then drive, drove and drove away. And he leaved the barn, the cosy new barn…. the cosy new barn.

The cosy new barn lived in a long long village that led to the other side of the gorge. The grandfather was there. And, “Oh PLEASE!!!!!” shout loud. “Oh.. Porin… it’s DISGUSTING!!!” that was Porin the horse, lived in a long long village. That was his barn.

“Please, oh please, can we go there again?”

“No you shouldn’t. Because this is my house, not your BARN. It’s MY house!” said the little tractor angrily. “Can you hear that? It’s MY house!!”

“My house?…. Boohoo boohoo…”

The COW said… they didn’t say anything. Until the little tractor said something, “My peep… come on Porip, you Orin, yes. Nooo…”

“Oh, ah…” one of them.

SO! The little… the little tractor… The Little Tractor by Ladybird. (To me: Adapted by who? Read this, whose name is this? Me: Toni Goffe)… Toni Goffe.

The Little Tractor, 2007-09-07

This story is her own twist on Ladybird's The Little Blue Tractor.


Ladybird. The Little Tractor. Written by Aladar P. Waters.

Little Fee Fi Fo Fum was terrified to see the noises. So did Little Tractor. Little Tractor saw a lot of things, afraid of that man. “It will be winter after. Wet until the Interstate. Our baby needs some energy.” He just that scared.

“They will be black toed in a second, winter is a cold cold time.” (I decided to embolden quotable quotes :)

“Are you have hay from Ray? We will just come and feed the legs to one of the old thingymajiggies.”

“Honk honk... it’s another state.” Three (indecipherable) went to the other side. Poor little tractor is there. He went to the other side. They see the cows munch things up, (indecipherable). He said, “Cows, can you go to the Interstate with me? I want to catch you. And catch you and put you in my cosy barn. Do you want me to do that?”

“Nope,” said the cows. “We are just munching there, and it’s so hard. Can’t use any of the Interstate with the telephone tone.”

“What is that? You (indecipherable) CAN!” The little tractor run off.

It was the chicken standing and stopped. He said, “Do you want me to go, in the... join me in the barn?”

“Nope! It’s the time for us to eat something.”

“Nice and cosy in our cosy barn.” He go to the other side and said, “Ducks do you want me to get anything else?”

“No! Paak paak, paak paak, paak paak.”

“Sheep!” He went to the other side. “Sheep, another sheep!” He said, “So many sheep until they begin to yell.”

“(Sings) Help helpy help help, helpy helpy help help, helpy help help, helpy help help. HELPY HELP HELP, HELPY HELP HELP HELP, HELPY HELP HELP HELP,” he said again, until there will be no fire.

Until there will be, “QUACK QUACK, quack quack, quack quack, quack quack... feed... feed... feed.” There will be yelping and singing and other noises type of stuff. Until they will be singing other things and there will be the same singing and there will be the other singing again. Until there will be much more things. Twyne(?) left.

“MEH meh meh...”

“Do you want me to get you in my cosy cold barn? Do you want me to do that?”

“No because I’m too big to fit in your cosy little barn. That will be disgusting, I’m big go in the barn, I will be inside your new barn.”

“AW, sorry!” he went to the other side instead. “Chicken, why do you want me to not do anything else in the whole wide world? You not the orange creatures? Why do want me not to do that?”

“Because we want you to leave us here.” So he went off to find the piggies again, until there’s no one. There’s no one didn’t make the man so happy... hey!

The whole wide world in from the other side of the, the other side of the... the world came, and came nearer to him, until there will be no faction(?) but only some Orip, Corin... of it there will be, “I have to go to the Interstate.”

“Just one of it, just one of it.” One of it goed down to fetch one of the, “Chickens, please.”

He goed down and down and deeper into the forest, and closed his hand all together, hopping on he catched it and he put it in the barn, and he catched another, he catched all of them, then he put all of them in the barn. Until there, and the daughter was happy, then they walked in the field. There was his horse. He galloped and galloped until that the little tractor moved slowly down the path with his new friend. He wanted them to stay in the cosy barn, and each of them want to wait there. It was the horse. And each of them want to get a blanket. So they ploughed(?) and one of them want to break it – the horse again. Until each of them they want to break this, and each of them want to break it.

“So terrible! Fresh from the Interstate. Said that was the Interstate, to the hen’s house,” said the little tractor, the wonder of one who got a secret. Won’t answer the secret. He new open secret adventure with his open new friend.

He wanted them to stay in his cosy new barn, and each of them wanted them to don’t do anything. And each of them wanted to do a serpent(?) with it. And each of them want to do nothing.

“Aww… sorry! You can eat that. You can ate it too, you can ate it too. You can ate it too. You can ate it too. You can ate it too. You can ate it too. You can ate it too.”

The end already!

Another Story within the Story, 2007-09-07

The story already started but the recording was way too noisy for me to transcribe before this point. This is another story within the story. I have used two different font colours to distinguish the shell story from the story within the story.

He wanted them to be nice to the other one. “Paak paak, paak paak.”

“All of you too, you shouldn’t do it.” Then the others tapped him and pull apart, then hopped in the barn, then said, “He goed away with the other one leaving behind, a dark orange hill, paak paak.” Then, “Paak paak, paak paak, paak paak.”

There was barking again. There will be bark barking again. And again and again and again, until there will be barking, “Bark bark.”

“Quack quack, quack quack.” Until there will be quack quacking again. Until there will be quack quack and quack quack, “Quack quack! Quack quack, quack quack, quack quack... feed, feed, feed.... quack quack... quack!”

“MEH meh!” The greedy tractor said, “Can you hop into my barn?” “We wouldn’t,” said the sheep, until they were munching each other, until they were being catched.

“I don’t want to eat anybody if they run through with their party, do you want to come with me? Do you want to come with me?” said the little tractor. “No, I don’t want to come with you,” said the horse, smiling. He galloped in the field, eating some, munching some plant’s leaves then on the top of the tree.

“Sorry... do you like this one? Like that one? My Orip, your highness is going in dark, white hill, is going in field for days and days, you saw the moonlight.” He couldn’t stay in growing field, until because it was snowing until he couldn’t feel in some dark copse(?) and got no hill, only some grass and (indecipherable). Some grass and stuff like, some grass was hoarding by the owl. After the house hoarded it, they stopped the wind on it, then they goed and goed until there were some windy cave for the quack quack sound of the birds, of the birds with it.

“My new highness, there will be it... there will be it.” Then they ran off to find the other, other piggies gallop in the field and all, all each of them came and each of them did it. Each of them didn’t want to be cold and dark. (Indecipherable phrase).

“You can gallop with us,” said the little tractor. So the other ones lived happily ever after with the little tractor.

“Thee... it’s almost the end,” said the little tractor, “there will be the end, until adapted by the Wind in the Willow, and adapted by Corin Horse, and adapted by Corin Horse.... and they will be galloped in the fields again. Thanks for coming!”

“Thank you for coming!”

“Bye!”

“Bye!”

“Bye!” (all different voices!)

“It’s The End. Do you like it really much?”

“(Squeaky voice) I like it so much”

“Ssshh! Now I can read... this one, this one, this one and this one and this one and this one and this one.... Ladybird. Adapted by Horin Horsay(?). I like it VERY much, that’s why I’m reading it to you. So... do you want to see what happened next, by the strange bird? Ladybird... do you want to know what happened again?... Adapted by Horin Horsay... Adapted by Horin Horsay.”

“They going to snow after winter,” said the man, the shorter man.

“I think too,” said the little tractor.

“Then let’s go!” So it rain and it freeze with some anklyosaurus(?), until there were whole ground, the whole ground.

“You like it so much? Do you like it?”

“I like it so much,” he said, “because of the piggies.”

“Ya! You like it so much!” said the little tractor, “because why do I like this story so much, because it’s nice, we live here!”

“Yes, because there is green hills... that is why you like it?”

“Yes,” said the piggies, so carefully, leaving one of the packages, pulling out another one and another one and another one, until there were whole ground... until there were bee and byno(?) and peek and peacock and each of anything cows came out of their green hill, “Moo.”

“So much?”

“I like it so much! So I’m reading it. The orange and hills, dealing with the ladybird and the world..”

“Boo!”

“Little bird, please don’t cry.” They scared forever, down from the stars and the sun. It’s D, little day bringing the lovely weather. Yellow. Little bird singing, then see yellow. Orange. Little bird singing near clouds, there orange. (Indecipherable phrase).

“Theeee end. So.... you want to know about the Interstate or something else?” said the cow, normally looking out at the orange hill that led to the bottom. “Do you like this? Do you like to get out in the field, horse?”

Horse said, “I don’t, but only a bit,” said the horse. “Come on,” feeling that she might do stuff like this.

“AWW, don’t talk about that, Ping Porin.”

“Bark bark, bark bark, bark bark, bark bark.”

“It’s cold and cold,” said the little tractor, “where are we?”

“You are at the Interstate,” said one of the ducks.

“Yes, I’m alright,” said the bull. Said the little tractor, “He might shiver.”

“Quack quack, quack quack, quack quack, quack quack... feed.. feed.”

“Open up,” he said, “until there will be no sheep. No sheep but only dog-lamb, until there will be dog-lamb and other masters and one-year and two-years old together. Orin and Tuvoyn(?), are we beginning to die..” he said. “I have only walked away with you. I have also run away with myself.”

“Meh meh meh.” She will shiver. “I want to grab from the (indecipherable),” said (indecipherable).

“I haven’t think about it. Do you like it so much? Do you like it so so much?”

“Is there any biking story?”

“Do you like supper? Anybody? Still for us to eat?”

“We’ll decide later. So... little piggy.... The Little Piggy....So... this story is The Little Piggy.”

“Once upon a time there lived a Wolf with Three Little Piggies.”

“I never knew he arrived!”

“No more... there no more.. they lived happily ever after...”

(Indecipherable mumbling).. this little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home, this little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none, and this little piggy cried wee wee wee, cried wee wee wee all the way... home.

“Are you trying to run off, away from me?”

“You know that by Wolf and always once upon a time and also nursery times, adapted by Horin Horsay... The three little pigs, adapted by Horin Horsay...”

Corythosaurus writes a story, 2007-09-06**

I can’t get over the complexity of this story. Aladar catches Corythosaurus writing his own book, but in one of Aladar’s own books, and gets mad at Corythosaurus, admonishing him to write his own story in his own book. Corythosaurus proceeds to do so. At the end of it, Aladar congratulates Corythosaurus on writing a good story. She really is working at perfecting this story within the story concept!

ETA: OK, I'm colour-coding the transcription below – I was just told the whole thing is too confusing. Black is when B's talking to me. Navy blue is when she's telling the story/dialogue between Aladar and Corythosaurus, and green is Corythosaurus's story.

“Aladar and the Fonix

Dear old friend... Peek with Corin.... The Dear Old Friend With Aladar That Morning

The Aladar and the Fog and the Fonix

The Aladar and the Fonix”

(Me: what is a Fonix?)

That is his friend, Porip with Aladar

“Illustrations by Aladar T. Waters”

’Dear old friend,’ Corythosaurus was writing one of his own books of all, after he wanted to write to it, their own noises, they are out of time

Aladar was so mad to see in one of his books, writing by Corythosaurus... he wanted them to, him to write his own self

The end!

“Porin lived in a long poem

Chapter.. Chapter One... Porin

Porin was very naughty today, and no one didn’t look of it, and no one did it, but only Onit. Porin was trapped by a Knight, and the others were in the house, and so the Knight couldn’t get in the house but it was too small for it.

‘Oh... maybe I shouldn’t do this without a knight,” he said... to his pine(?)

No time for it to losing, to learn, uhm, to get out from his trap....

Doorway... it was locked, so he can’t get out because the Knight is his prisoner!

And his prisoner got by the Orin of course, without Porin

‘I’m getting some help.... HELP!!!’ he said, ‘HELP’ again, ‘HEEEELP!!!.... HEEEELP!!!.... HEEEELP!!!.... HEEEELP!!!’

And for a second later he said, ‘HEEEELP!!!’ until the whole ground was shaking, with cheers and claps, ‘HEEEELP!!! HEEEELP!!! One of you’, until for a second, ‘HEEEELP!!!!!’, he.. he shouted again for help, until a sudden someone came and helped him

‘HEEEELP!!!’ said the other one, ‘HEEEELP!!!’, until for a second someone helped the other one

Then no one was there either, not in the caves, they took him in the house, then he goed inside.. too”

“GOOD SHOT!” says says Aladar, “Corythosaurus, you you you you saved someone.... but in the night... who was it?”

“It was Corin..... the other Corythosaurus.... YES!” (chuckles)

After the story above, I left the recorder on and conducted a short “interview” with the author J. It was a spontaneous thing, I was really a bit mixed up as to her story characters!

Me: Is Corin the Corythosaurus in the story that Corythosaurus is writing?

B: No

M: Who’s Corin?

B: Corin is another Corythosaurus, he’s not writing... he was in Aladar’s favourite book

M: Oh, Corin was reading Aladar’s favourite book

B: Yes, but.. but it was scary, and Aladar didn’t write his scary book

M: Then what about the first Corythosaurus, what was he doing?

B: He was recording the other one, Corin

M: Oh, so who’s the one who’s the illustrator, is it Corythosaurus or is it Corin?

B: It was... T-Rex

M: T-Rex? Was the illustrator for whose book?

B: Uhm, it was.. it’s Aladar’s book

M: OK, so T-Rex is the illustrator for Aladar’s book

B: Yes

M: Corin is writing his own story... is Corin writing a story?

B: No, the other Corythosaurus

M: Oh, the other Corythosaurus is writing a story

B: Yes

M: And Corin is in the story

B: Yes

M: OK. So now Aladar is writing a book and Corythosaurus is also writing a book. So there are two books right?

B: And... and T-rex too

M: T-rex is also writing a book

B: Yes

M: So there are three books

B: Yes, and..

M: And Corin is? Reading the book..

B: Yes... and Porip

M: Who is Porip?

B: He’s another creature, but I don’t know what is he

M: Is he a dinosaur?

B: No

M: Porip is not a dinosaur

B: No

M: Is Porip inside the story or is he Aladar’s friend?

B: He’s in the story and he’s Aladar’s friend

M: Both

B: Yes... Aladar says, “GOOD SHOT!”

M: To who?

B: Corythosaurus, because he saved someone, it was Corin and Porin

M: Did Corythosaurus save someone in the story?

B: Yes, it was Corin and Porin

M: But that was in the story that who was writing?

B: (makes funny noises)

M: Was that... I mean did Corythosaurus really save him, or did he save him in the story only?

B: Only in the story

M: OK

B: GOOD SHOT said Aladar!

M: Hehe, you like that huh?

B: Yes, and Aladar said Good Shot! That he says. (Distracted into pretend play) Ma I’m trying to get up there so Compsognathus and Aladar can come down and sit in there, I’m trying to reach them, it’s too high...

Corin with Aladar, 2007-09-06

Corin with Aladar!

There Orin of Corip, there Aladar! There Corin of the features(?) of Aladar! Illustrations by Corythosaurus. (To me: Corythosaurus is doing illustrations now! He’s like Aladar.)

“Dear old friend...” Aladar was writing a book for his Aladar’s... Aladar’s Serpent. Then, it’s a good one.

Peek Beak. Peek Beak was so boom, umph. And so he was in, in a going of who was Interstate and other stuff. And so he was Norin and friends. “Sick,” said Orin, “to see her. Maybe I shouldn’t be this type of creature,” he said, wander out, to find his real me. “Maybe I should change to my own name or something,” he said to heself, “maybe.”

He changed and changed to his own name. Then he was looked fun in his own name because Porip Keem. That was just his own name, his full name. Out at his birthday.

Maybe the other Corythosaurus looking out one of his favourite pictures of all of Corin. Corin was then in the Nineown Open Plains, that was his friend. Himself, he was Corish, Corythosaurus.

“Aww..” said Aladar, “I wish.. wish Corin lived in a lone village. Maybe he lived in a lone village or not,” said him to T-Rex.

“I think so, some meat,” said T-Rex

“I think some plants,” said Aladar

“Ahh... sorry.”

“No! That is just not. Don’t talk about that,” said Corythsaurus to heself.

“Maybe I will change your mind.”

“Oh no,” he said.

And then Corin liked one of his own one of all, it was Corip. Corip was his best friend of all he talked to. He talked to yesterday night while when he goed out. He talked to Bip, one of his game he ever played with. Corin live in long, long village. They lived inside, one of his Corip. One of his Corip lived in a long, long Orip that go to there the other side.

“No eight,” said mother.

“Please Corin, can you go to the other state?” said Norin.

“No you can’t,” said Corin. “It’s full energy, and there were sweat and cold there. Until the train left you can’t go there.”

“Aw, sorry, Corin. Is it true the lift(?) is there, so you can’t go there?”

“Oh!” said Corin to the others.

“Can you go to it?”

“Dah! Puh!” said T-Rex, “that is very changes!”

“Chyuh!” said Corin, “I don’t like you say you will go there T-Rex. There might be cheetahs catching you, if you go there T-Rex by yourself. If you go, the others are friendly, so they can fight.”

“Sorry,” said T-Rex.

They all hold hands. Then everybody shouted out, “Quick, hide!” They hided, then a second came on the edge, so nobody came near the changer and it came nearer. Was his comp, it was Aladar’s computer.

Aladar said it’s his computer. “Computer, I want to work on you.” He worked till done on his computer. “See what I have typed on my computer? It’s Pine.” He drawed, his computer drawed it off. He typed and typed. Typed and typed. And typed and typed and typed. Till its rubber didn’t work! It was Orin, his favourite computer of all. Ack, it moved it from his house. He bringed it back to his house, on the table and couldn’t move it anymore. Until the earth began to study, one of his own place of all.

“Ah, sorry. I think I typed the wrong way, page,” he said, and low whistled with the others behind his back. Each of them behind one of their backs. He was Aladar, was leading the a way to the others, couldn’t get out from the line. He said, “You know of T-Rex? Not Corin, not Porish, not Norin couldn’t get out from the line. And T-Rex too, they couldn’t get out from the line,” said Aladar to heself, wander out.

He said, “Hmm, I don’t know why Aladar is not leading off on the way, because there’s no time to lose,” said Jello and Panda, “that why he leading the way, so we can get out!”

Corin the Norin, 2007-09-04

He shouldn’t peek! “(SINGS) DA BA DOO AH ZINE.” He didn’t look.

Pyne behind Corin. Corin behind Corip.

Pyne behind Corip. “You shouldn’t do this anymore. Place behind,” he said to Norip. “I shouldn’t do this,” he said with clearer voice, “I shouldn’t.” (Indecipherable phrase).

Corin didn’t notice he was bad and so dumb. He didn’t notice. “I shouldn’t do this anymore,” he said.

“Maybe... hmm... who wonder?... I shouldn’t do this, he.... (to herself, presumably reading the actual words from the book prop she’s using: this says he... this says he... this says cat... this says he again... he... he... there’s he again...)

Corin the Norin was so terrified to see, he didn’t look, but only Orip looked. He... looked out in the forest, looking for a nine(?).

Peek behind Corin. “Hard?... What is hard? What?”

“Corin Worin the Norin, cart away the Norin, cart away the Norin, tug away the Norin, tug away...”

They did a terrible Aladdin, they did a terrible..kong long (Mandarin for dinosaur)

Corin the Norin was so terrified to see the noises and banging stuff. Only he wanted to do anything else. Only he wanted to do anything else. “Dap behind and Corip beside..” she was reading the letter from Porin Peep Pin. He wanted to look out at the letter but she didn’t give him the letter.

“Ah, alright. Is she then.. ah, alright,” says she. “Ike, I ate it.”

Aladar said, “Pooh! Pooh, Corin! Maybe he wants you to feed me anymore.”

“I wanted someone to do it anymore, not anymore, but only all night.”

“Hmm, maybe... maybe,” said Corin, “maybe..”

“Corin, don’t do that again.”

“That is Orip.”

“Oh, sorry.”

“(Nasal singing) The best feeling done ever,” said Corythosaurus dancing with laughter, “(nasal singign continues) Porin My New Highness, My New Highness,” Corythosaurus was so like to see the singing of his.

“(As though about to cry) Maybe he shouldn’t do anything else in the wood,” he boo-hooed, “maybe, maybe him fear it(?), I’m fear it(?) carnasaur... I’m fear the whole dinosaurs in the whole world, right...”

What happened to Cook? 2007-09-03

They want him to cast(?) out some stories, so he couldn’t get out some... some injuries. So he can do all, everything he want about stuff, about his renewing (indecipherable) Corin the Norin pig.

His Corin the Norin pig was so so terrified to see the noises and banging. So want to see what happened, there was more noises and banging, and he stepped in, doubt above him.

There open enough secret. The openare was sleeping... was so terrified that after breakfast Corythosaurus led a court, so they can go out and explore the new open of the vulture. Corythosaurus was ask their mother. “Mother, can we go out and play there?” said Corythosaurus. “Here?” said Aladar. “Nope,” said Corythosaurus, “you can’t, because it’s raining, and our house is wet, and our garden is wet so you can’t go out and play.”

“Oh, sorry,” said Orin, “what about reading some books? We can read some books in the house.”

They reading some books in the house, for a minute later. After the storybooks died, the storybooks was after the books... they read one of the books. Each of them read a book, and each of them put a book back, so it can’t get wet with some raining drops. They put it back on the shelf, after they reading. They eat some lunch after the rain had stopped.

After the rain had stopped, they had some breakfast. After they loved(?) their breakfast, Corythosaurus led a Nineown Open Plains... there were vultures and plasters(?) and... in the workshop.

After Corythosaurus new open adventure, Corythosaurus was so so terrified coming battle, the other stuff. His other stuff was even used, or not he will talk, not his secret that he whispered to T-Rex yesterday after the band came – they were on the path with them behind them a tree.

After the open plains of Corythosaurus new adventure the others led a court. Then Corythosaurus go out the court and he was so (indecipherable) and he was spiky, with those little things that looks like spiky and other thingamajiggies. And no time for little Cook to learn about his grandfather Corin and his fight(?) that he don’t know yesterday. He want to be good and nice, and not bad anymore. Cook was so good, and saw angel hiding, and he get his stuff back, and he get he was... he was knew one of his stuff... and he was so good, until the whole ground was shaking with fear with him. And the character was so nice and so heavy, until he can shake the ground. And he was a good... brachiosaurus! Then brachiosaurus said, “Huh??? What happened to Cook?” And Cook said, “I’m a diplodocus now!!!” he said, Cook said.

“What happened to you Cook???”

“I became a diplodocus when I got magic beak for me. Then I became a diplodocus, that’s how I looked. After I’m young.”

After breakfast, Corythosaurus led a court, not with Cook, because Cook was still playing with his friend Brachiosaurus after. After he grown up... the little court.

The Little Court.

After he growned up he did a little court. After they lurked aside court that was so shabby, diplodocus stepped on it. And he was not, not heavy enough to step on it. She stepped on the spikes, he didn’t step on the spikes. He was mostly clever with the spikes. And the spikes was so terrified to see the noises and the record. They were recording at the open trees after one page of them... one page was pick of Corin the Norin. Of Corin... no time... no time... to lose.

Corin the Norin was so so terrified to see the noises and banging and stuff. And he was so so terrified to see the noises and banging.

(Indecipherable). Chapter Three. They looked outside.

They looked outside, was fine. So after breakfast, “Mother can we go out and play?”

“It’s a sunny morning and you can do that.”

They goed out and play. They wearing their slippers so they can get out through the net(?) on their feet.

After they wear their slippers they go to the house and put their slippers inside the house so the dog, the greedy dog can’t eat them. Can’t eat their shoes. After their shoes and their slippers and the big ones went right inside the house. They closed the door so the greedy dog can’t come in and eat them and eat their shoes at the same time.

“That might be disgusting for chewing, our dog”, and one dog locked in the playground goed out. “That might be disgusting,” said Corythosaurus.

Corythosaurus, 2007-09-03

I started recording this one midway through the story...

(Me: Aladar has children???) Yes. But the name was Parasaurolophus Corin, and Parasaurolophus, and Chorin the Toysaurus, Poysophe a... Poysophe a Poysaurus, Saurus, and Poor Corin. And Corin knowledge have been, and his children... I don’t know the name of his children. I only know his sister, he’s Corin, and his friend. That his... that his children.

I want to check what his children name... (indecipherable)

Corin the Norin which was so so terrified. He can’t remember his children. After... he can record his.. his.. the open new window.. after he announced the name of this thing, of his new window, “(Sings) My new ‘venchy, my new Korik. My new Porin, and my new toy that I don’t know, that I don’t know, my keek can know the name of it but he is died already, and my horse they have to take me to my grandfather though.”

Corythosaurus was so terrified to see the noises.

Chapter Two. They looked outside, said RECORD ME! (To me): Record me! (Me: Ok, recording you now).

This is Chapter Two. “(Sings) Zicka Zyna Zoo, Dicka Dyna Doo,” Corythosaurus was singing that song in Corythosaurus new open house, after.

After dinner Corythosaurus was at his little court. “(Sings) My new Corin, my new Corin, me new bees.” There were new bees in Corythosaurus’ honey pot, after.

After his dancing, there Corythosaurus led a court. But then he dancing. After his court only dancing, he was so so terrified to see those noises and those banging and those handkerchiefs and those handkerchiefs all dying down. And those handkerchiefs not lying down, he want to know about that. And those banging and stuff was gone already. With his.. he power and stuff. His power and stuff was gone too, with his baggies and Corin and with his banging and his Porip and his PORIK!! And he was trying to keep it.

Corythosaurus was.. all his parents and all his friends were carrying his stuff. (Indecipherable phrase) but there were no time to lose. He get his stuff was, was carried away by his friends.

“So sad,” said Aladar. “What shall we do with Corythosaurus? If he got his, he.. he carried his stuff right.”

“I KNOW!” said T-rex.

“What?”

“We can carry his stuff back to him, new voice.”

“Bad idea.”

They carried Corythosaur...it..each of them carried his voice back and each of them carried his secret back. And he got his things back, for him to talk and him to speak it to.. to whisper.

“Good job,” said Corythosaurus. “I got my secrets back! What shall I do??... Someone have to speak.” Corythosaurus hided. And Corythosaurus, “ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE TEN! Ready or not here I come, doo doo doo doo, where are you?”

The others was standed just carefully and whispered to his kish, “Shhhh! (Whispers) What’s that that we have to come? (Whispers too soft for the recorder to pick up)...he found out.....(more indecipherable whispering)...BAH!...(more whispers).” And a BANG!! came, a BANG!!!, a BAAAANG!!!!!!

Mr Hole, 2007-09-03

Contents. Contents. Page 1 - The Land of Corip. Page 2 – They want Corip they learn. Page 3 – The Knowledge of Bad Design. Page 4 – Where they looked out. Page 5 – Turn the page and find the letter, the letter, so.. Page 6 – They looked out on the Sea Serpent. Page 7 – They looked back. Page 8 – The coat behind. Page 9 – They didn’t look. Page 10 – They did their part.
(Note: She often starts her stories like this, mirroring the layout of her book props that have content pages. This is similar with her not infrequent starting of a story with its title followed by author’s name, illustrator and publisher; and also how she always gives a chapter title whenever she sees the word “Chapter X” in her book props. This is because I always read her this information whenever I read to her, before starting the actual story).

Corip Bean. Corip Bean was sooo terrified to see those noises and banging and stuff. Until the whole ground was shaking with banging lands... night.. Mr Hole..

Chapter One. Corythosaurus painted a house.

Corythosaurus was painting the house so long and whole day, but there were no Mr Rat Hole, nobody else. Only at night, but there were no nice things, only a knight came, and came and came and came near the open seas of the kinkeed(?). Kinkeed was.. was little mouse. Little mouse with, got a pink neck, at the.. at the..

A bunch of weird names, 2007-09-01

“Hi!” said Corythosaurus. The line of dinosaurs was not looking out, only at night.

(Indecipherable phrase, then addresses me:

You can’t record me. You can’t record me. You can’t record me, I’ll record myself!

M: Yup, you can record yourself... you record yourself just hold it

B: Speak into it, no time for little play. You have to press).

So, so terrified, to see there were so many twiggies. (Squealy voice) There were so many twiggieeees!

(More scrabbling as she adjusts the recorder, asking me: Can it be here? M: Come I’ll hold it for you. B: I want you to listen. M: I’m listening).

Corythosaurus was not looking out mommy. (Me: Ok). And, ah! What happened? After that page, there was a challenge, on.. on the door. Then Corythosaurus opened it, and nobody was there – it was a letter. (To me: Do you want me to show the letter to you? Me: Ok). The letter has a tear, and it was Plesiosaurus. “Plesiosaurus dear old friend,” (to me: that’s what it says. Me: Mm-hmm). So...

Corythosaurus was so nine(?), but only a knight. Then a BOOM!!!! came! A BOOOOOM!!!! Then everybody shouted out “Quick! Hide!” Everybody hided. Then... it was only a fish! The fish hided from the boom.

The SHAKALAKA BOOM, the Shakalaka Boom! (This is a line from the game Wizards and Kings that she’s recently been obsessed with from the GameGoo website). (Chuckles, to me: It’s Shakalaka, Shakalaka. Me: Shakalaka boom? B: Yeah. Me: Ok. B: Here is it... it from where? Me: From that game that you play. B: Laughs. What is it, make believe? Me: Just make believe? B: Yes. Me: Ok).

Then there was a light purple one. Then got a key, then read.

Pleseiosaurus was so, so terrified of the noise. Then aNOTHER boom came, then everybody shouted out, “Quick, hide!” No chickens saved, it was only the chickens who came. They were dead.

Their death was so, so nine(?). Hundred million years ago there lived a young man, but he.. he don’t got any name. He was a young, young man but he got no.. his name was Noak. (Me: Noah?) No, it wasn’t. (Me: Ok, ok). It’s Noyk. (Me: Noyk?) Yes. (Me: Ok). (Chuckles, to me): I forgot the name! (Me: So what happened to Noyk?) Noyk was.. was walking in the river then GOED OUT from the river then walked into a bush. He walked and walked on the heath and into the.. into one bush. That what happened! He walked over this hill, then climbed into the far slope, then goed... goed, goed, go go go go go go go, and he climbed into that bush!.... Then he goed, goed here, then goed down, then go here, then go here, then go Cook...

Noak! Different! It different like the other one.... (Me: which other one?) It’s different like Noepush...

Noepush. Noepush then to Noekup.

Noekup. “Noekup!”

“What do you want?” said Noepuh.

“No time,” said Noak. There were then fighting with Noak. No time for little Noain to learn about. His grandfather was talking and his mama was not talking.... (This next section she pretends to point out a bunch of characters in an imaginary photo).

Mike. Mike was push puhnike. (Me: huh?) Puhnike. (Me: Puhnike?) Yes. (Me: What’s Puhnike?) He.. he.. he’s Cook’s mother. (Me: Puhnike is Cook’s mother?) Yes.... Yes! (Me: I thought the story was about Noyk?) Noyk went to sleep already.... then he died... (Me: Why?) Because that what happened! (Me: Ok... what about Noepush and what was the other one.. Noekup?) Noekup there, they’re just sleeping. Do you want me to read Noak? (Me: Yeah!) Noepuck, Noekup. (Me: Ok). Or Poetsup. (Me: All of them).

Dootkupt, Duptup, Look Corip, it’s.. it’s.. it’s Cook’s mother..and Pushyne is his friend. (Me: Ok...). In the sweater, I.. I don’t know the name. I only know his friend’s name is Corip. His sister and his mother. (Me: Ok). But I don’t know he.. he’s, he’s just Porip. He’s just Porip... This is just Porin, this is Coripkipe. (Transcriber’s note: I’m just spelling them as they sound to me here! All these invented names drive me nuts!) This is Pyne, his brother.

Noepyne was living with Corythosaurus. After Noepyne was living with Corythosaurus, CORIP came near there there... to near the edge, there bonked his head! Then he BONKED his head by his hammer. Then... Doy, then Doyne came near us. Toych, that led him to the bottom of the gorge, he slide down it. Then he went to the bottom, then he saw a bump. Then he BUMPED on his bum. (Chuckles).

Compsognathus, Compsognathus! Compsognathus got a two-legged, he could run very very fast. And not Norip... Norip couldn’t.

Dimorphodon. Dimorphodon. Dimorphodon was four legged.

T-rex. He could run very fast. T-rex.... Tyrannosaurus was two legged. He could.. much he was before, when the time goes high in the eaten(?), would eater(?) was. The eater(?) was, was so hot and beachy.

Corythosaurus went down it, then he.. he bumped down on the sand. It’s a beach.

Nodosaurus. Nodosaurus was got.. Nodosaurus. Nodosaurus was four legged and he was so heavy until the bottom of the gorge let him down.

What a.. Diplodocus! Diplodocus. Diplodocus was four legged. He was heavy like Demontodaurus(?).

Demontodaurus(?) was high... this is Demontodaurus(?). (Me: Demontodaurus?) Yes. (Me: What dinosaur is that?) This one I’m looking at. This one... this one got stripes.

Cool Dimetrodon was four legged and was heavy like Brachiosaurus, then Diplodocus was not looking out. Mmm... Dimetrodon... Dimetrodon was four legged and was heavy like Brachiosaurus, then he was even heavier like.. he was heavier like Brachiosaurus.

Dimetrocook. (Me: Dimetrocook?) Yes!(Laughs, then runs away...)

Aladar, 2007-09-01

Aladar. He was just looking for the shoobane. The shoobane was not looking out. Only a knight came near it. Then the nearer it obeyed him, didn’t look out at the service, no time at the service.

Deek behind, Deek behind Aladar New Adventure!

Aladar’s New Adventure! (Title)

Illustrations by Corythosaurus. (Illustrator)

T-Rex! (Publisher)

Once upon a time...

Once upon a time there lived a young man. He was, name was Aladar. Aladar loved to play all night and all along, and no contents came near him.

Contents.

No content came near him, but only a knight. Not a knight can come near him, but he’s a knight Norip. After the Nineown Open Plains, there were vultures circling around him. Other vultures, too, but no other vultures came near him. They were peaceful, but they were not like the Orish(?) one. They were scared of him, because they thought he might eat them.

After they looked out, they saw a bunch of Aladars coming. No fifty, long ago... there were no time, but only a knight came near his adventure, came and came and came. And came and came from far away, until he can’t see it anymore, until the whole ground was shaking.

EVOLUTION OF A STORYTELLER***

I now have 58 untranscribed files sitting on my computer. The reason? I've been working on a special Zero to Three Milestones video for Bethany's 3rd birthday coming up next Monday. And now it's finished!

Since this is her storytelling blog, I am posting the storytelling section of that video here. I hope you enjoy watching "Evolution of a Storyteller"!

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Corythosaurus is sad, 2007-08-31*

This story was told while waiting for the train to Singapore at the Central Train Station, in the waiting room. There were strangers around, but she seemed apparently oblivious to them. The story apparently revolves around Corythosaurus who is finishing writing his new book and doesn't want the rest to read his not yet complete manuscript... within the story, you can see how he feels sad when his fried T-rex is not accepted by the other dinosaurs.

I have colour-coded it for easy-reading. Black is the shell story and navy blue is the story that Corythosaurus is writing.

Listen to Bethany tell this story HERE.

Only that night, Corythosaurus left and goed away to the orange stage, but not continue it, but didn’t continue the story in there.

“At night, free it.”

“Not free it.”

“Only for that night,” he said.

“No... we won’t. We will sell.”

“Corythosaurus, what are you doing Corythosaurus? You’re almost not finished yet!”

“Nope! Ahhhh... don’t read that! That is not right!”

They stand up and didn’t do anything else.

Only do a night, nooooo kit(?). But also kittenin(?).

There was no... peeked and peeked and peeked and peeking, but not a noise came. Only a BANG!!!!!!!!!!! Came near the open sea of the sea serpent that morning.

That morning boys behind. That morning, they almost begin to wander out. Corythosaurus and the others.. into the fold, and into the forest. One day, Corythosaurus went into the forest and didn’t say anything, but only a mouse came near him. But there were bills and knight and might, mighty thingymajiggies, but there were no type but only a knight came. But the knight he was, he was so kind, so friendly and so doing out thingymajiggies. And everybody shouted out “Quick! Hide from the knight!” Everybody hided, then a BOOM came. Then a BOOM!!!!! came! Then everybody shouted out “QUICK! HIDE!!”

Everybody hided. Then it came nearer and it was T-rex. Then T-rex said, “What are you doing? That is my suit, why you step on my suit?”

“Becaaause... we don’t like your suit or knight. Because there no time to lose. We have to go for the train! (Train bell in the background). The right way, you follow the wrong way, this is the right way. This is OUR house! You can’t come to our house.”

“You see? Corythosaurus... Corythosaurus so, so sad... he wanted T-rex to come (sounds very sad), but the others said no.”

“Ohhh no.... no... why?...”

“Don’t be saaad... that he just not our friend... you don’t have to be saaad, that is not right... you don’t have to be sad. That is just not.... riiight...”

“(Screams loudly) DAAAAAAHHH!!!!” There were no cush(?).

Something spooky's after Corythosaurus, 2007-08-31

Listen to Bethany tell this story HERE, complete with spooky voices :)

It’s a funny story.

Cook knew. Cook knew it was not looking out, but it was adoring it. It was a customer, not out but only a noise came, a BANG!!!!!!! CAME! THEN IT LOOKED, BUT A CRACK! THEN A BAAAAANGGG!!!!! CAME (laughing). THEY WERE THERE BUT NO TIME. A BAAAANNGGGG!!!!!! ANOTHER BANG CAME. THEN A BANG!!! CAME. BANG! BANG! THERE’S A KNOCK ON THE DOOR!

Then everybody shouted out “QUICK!!! HIDE! HIDE!” And then everybody hided. Then Corythosaurus didn’t hide. (Approx. 15 seconds of indecipherable whispering).

Then a BANG!!!!! CAME (laughs). THERE’S A BANG!!!!! “DID EVERYBODY SETTLE DOWN??? QUICK! HIDE! HIDE!!!!!!”

Then Corythosaurus hided too and Aladar leaving him behind...

No time.... no not nothing else came.. near them. A BOOM!!!!! CAME! THEN EVERYBODY HAVE TO HIDE (amidst laughter). “HIDE!! HIDE!! QUICK!!!!!!!!!!” ANOTHER BOOM CAME, THEN EVERYBODY DIDN’T LOOK!

“DUCK!!!” A BOOM CAME, THEN EVERYBODY SETTLED DOWN, “QUICK HIDE!!!... but not in my skin (?)” Then, everybody was tied together. Then a BOOM!!!!! came then everybody shouted out ‘QUICK, HIDE! HIDE HIDE HIDE!!”

They runned out, and Corythosaurus didn’t look.

“(Spooky voice) Co-ry-thi-sau-rus,” said the noise, said a.. said a voice, “(spooky voice) I hungry, I need to eat meat... because... there no time to lose after the... new nine adventure... of.. my.. new..... (very spooky now) Corythosaurus,” said the voice, said the voice of it.

There was hunting... hunting party.. hunting party! There were.. there were... there were hunting parties nearer Cook’s house and there was Aladar’s house...

Everybody looked out of Triceratops window, after T-rex set the nine open sea serpent door there were sea serpents coming in, AND a nine open wise old man. He kept his long beard, stepped out into his barefoot, and his name was Vaykay.

Vaykay was not looking out for Dig Cook. Dig Cook was not.. he didn’t got a beard. Just went down to his bare shoes and feet. His feet was so much long, you know

(runs away from the recorder to talk to daddy: Daddy you know, there’s an old man. He from the land of Cook McMann(?). Runs back to the recorder vicinity).

And Cook the son was so scared and there was him there. (Indecipherable).

T-rex the Peacemaker, 2007-08-31*

Aladar and Corythosaurus have a misunderstanding and T-rex acts as peacemaker...

Listen to Bethany tell this story HERE, complete with funny voices.

“That’s Corythosaurus in a coach!” They were, they were so sharp and so deeper, it was very don’t like it until the whole ground was painful. Until night, it was crying with fear, but they still doing the trap thingymajiggy. It was by the lake.

“HA!!!.... Ha! Ha!” said Corythosaur.

Said Aladar, “(Nasal voice) You found my light!” said he.

“PAH! That noise!” said Corythosaurus. “PAH! Aladar’s noise! He is... his voice is so clear.”

“(Nasal voice) No my, my highness, it’s not so clear. It’s my, my shyness,” said Aladar.

“Nope,” said Corythosaurus.

“My highness... my BANG!!! Don’t do anything,” said Aladar, stamping. He fought THAT!!!!!

“Don’t say that thingymajiggy!” said T-rex to Corythosaurus, “that is not right!... You should not talk to Aladar like that, because he might get angrier and angrier and angrier in that stone that you have hidden him.” He scuttled around him.

He.. he.. he... Corythosaurus was up and fighting. “My.. I was trying to be like.. ALADAR!” said.. said.. said Corythosaurus physically scared.

“Don’t do THAAAAT! Don’t be scared like that, thingymajiggy,” said T-Rex, “that is not right.”

“Elasmosaurus, can you do anything else with this, our friend, Corythosaurus? He want to talk to Aladar!”

“Oh, nope,” said Pteranodon and Elasmosaurus, “we can’t help you.... We have to do some work with our friend, Pterodactylus and Plesiosaurus. We HAVE to, because they need our help.”

“Ahhh. Someone have to get out swim in the sea, to help Elasmosaurus do the work.”

“Ah! I know,” said Corythosaurus.

“We can do anything else,” said Iguanodon.

And Aladar, “Nope! We can’t do that!” he said.

Something creepy, 2007-08-31

Daddy recorded this one. She got distracted shortly after he started recording. I'm not sure how far into the story the recording began, but it sounds reasonably complete as a super short story as it is ;)

DAH!!!! No time... maybe it was not something, but maybe it was. Something is broke in the store. Because he was mad about it, because it was CAT in bin! He saw... he said something, “(spooky voice) I’m so scared, I’m spying in a... spying in a hole...”. He was so scared he was. The creepy voice was Ickoben(?).

Sea creatures, 2007-08-29

She had already started this story and was well into it when I tried starting to record her. This is the last story in my backlog from the 29th August. There was one more video clip, but having just checked it, the audio was far too muffled for transcription...

Accidentally. But (too noisy) Icthyosaurus Kaiwen Tee. (Indecipherable).

(To me) I want you to listen to me! (This is a recent development – once she sees the recorder on me, that’s what she says and won’t go on unless I comply!)

Corythosaurus was not looking out for ichthyosaurus, but he was looking out for a dinosaur. And he was watching. He swimming and swimming and watch him, then he eat. Then Aladar eat deinosuchus! Made him gag! Made him vomit! Then he vomit down. Then he vomit up and down, up and down, then in the middle. Then look up! Then in the middle again. Then he DOWN he went. “DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN GRAVITY!” then he sing that song. Then he.. then he went there. And dead, and dead, and dead, and dead. And dead some more! Then he was even dead and dead and dead, then everybody STOP it, and stamp it for him.

BACKSTORY AND ILLUSTRATIONS**

This morning I asked her about the davinoars in the above story and was rewarded with enthusiastic explanations that ended with a series of illustrations by her! Actually she started providing backstory on the Nineown (which I initially transcribed, apparently incorrectly, as Nineold) Open Plains since yesterday, pointing it out to me on the world map in her playroom. It is located in Australia, and is the home of “the other, real” Corythosaurus (i.e. the writer). Aladar lives somewhere in Northwest Africa (as she pointed it out to me on the map) but travels a lot and often visits the Nineown Open Plain of the Vulture, known as the Nineown Open Plains for short. The Nineown dinosaurs did not in fact originate from the Nineown Open Plains (known in our world as Australia) but from somewhere in Africa, then travelled to the Nineown Open Plains later. The waters surrounding the Nineown Open Plains are filled with good sea serpents, not bad ones. The bad sea serpents live somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea (she didn’t name this, but pointed to it on the map). Corin, who is purely a fictional character invented by Aladar and Corythosaurus, came from somewhere north of the Nineown Plains (she pointed on the map to somewhere in Borneo or New Guinea).

She pointed out the various locations again later on maps on her computer and yet later again on her world map, and was consistent with her stories each time.

They grow watermelons and cabbages in the Nineown Open Plains, but not lime or broccoli. Aladar grows them when he visits there. The davinoars are a type of jackindore and they live in the Nineown area. They are very tricky, and there are different types of davinoars, which are tiny jackindores – jackindores are apparently huge (“this big” she said, stretching out her arms as wide as she could). They are not dinosaurs, and have wings, not legs and not flippers – basically they are flying creatures. Their body parts also have unique names that she made up completely out of thin air (all the names here, besides the actual dinosaur names, she made up out of apparently nowhere).

Here are the illustrations she drew

I'm still behind in terms of transcribing, by about 2 weeks. I still have 2 stories to transcribe from the 29th, and then approximately 2 per day that I've recorded since then. Her most recent stories have shown other developments, but having not transcribed them, I am going by hearsay mostly. What caught my attention is her increasing use of places and creatures that she has made up out of thin air - she's still very much using the story-within-a-story mode, but her stories are increasingly sounding like fantasy adventure type episodes because of these fantasy-type names.

She is also still associating certain stories she tells with specific books she's using. Currently my Miraca Gross book is apparently the book that Aladar is writing, while a Ladybird book of Dinosaurs that belongs to the library is the book Corythosaurus is currently writing. She will continue her serials whenever she picks up either of these books or one of her old favourites (Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, and a devotional book just entitled, "Moms"), typically starting out with "where did we stop?...". She does also tell stories from other books, and those seem to be "light stories" that are more self contained (these are the stories she tells that don't feature Aladar and his friends).

Her newest stories involve a bunch of characters with very peculiar sounding names like Pish, Poock, and other such names only a baby would think of i guess. I can't keep up with her - it's literally impossible, I still only manage to record 1-2 stories from the many she tells everyday except for that day when we recorded 10.

Recently she wants to be recorded - the problem is she starts anytime, and all day long - I'm not usually watching her constantly, and the recorder is also slow to boot up, so often by the time I've realized she's started and switched on the thing, I've missed a good minute or more of the story also explains why many of the stories seem to start from nowhere on the blog - actually she usually starts properly, it's my fault..

Because of the random nature of my sampling, I sometimes miss the best stories and get garbled ones instead. If you've been reading her blog you'll see her story quality can vary a lot. I do listen to most of her stories, just not all, and record even less... but in general I can sum up what's currently happening, for e.g. her current thing is still the nested stories. Aladar and Corythosaurus are really competing in this, but Aladar seems more of a mentor/guru in more ways than just as a storywriter guide. She's been introducing new characters, and if you ask her, will give you their backstories as well.

Oh yes, one final thing I've noticed... her increasing use of vocabulary she's picked up from the books we read, which is natural, but especially from Enid Blyton - she loves to introduce a sort of "word or phrase of the day" and uses it repeatedly within many of her stories in any particular day. For instance, the two words she's been using repeatedly yesterday evening and today have been "clambering" and "scampered", and a new favourite since a couple of weeks or more ago has been "thingymajiggy".

Introducing the Davinoars, 2007-08-29

Only two more transcriptions to go from the recordings on the 29th of August! This one came with some exciting developments that I will explain in a separate post... look out for the quaint sense of scorn (I've bolded it for easy locating) she introduces in some of the conversations - I found it very funny, hope you will too!

Am using colour-coding again. Green is the shell story, blue is the story within the story and black is for when she's talking with me.

You can listen to Bethany tell this story HERE

By the Little Cook

Little Cook (indecipherable phrase)

In the morning, and they at his place all night, so much learned big by his self, and he didn’t want anybody to go, come and update him all night and all along. But so long he says, “I didn’t know that! Stegosaurus was there... thank you!”

Barosaurus laughed. Then I told him, “What are you doing?” said, “That is not so long, Poock! Pull out that thingy.”

“Pah! This thingy! Psh! He’s a nineown chickening!” he said. “She a neck! Poock!” he said, said Parasaurolophus

“Please Saurolophus, don’t do that like money, that is Aladar’s big fun (sneezes) and each of them, nobody paying them... it couldn’t,” he just said

“No time,” he said. “He get out almost too late, but there was some plasters on him because he didn’t run out. Anybody didn’t look, but only a thingy moved and moved. He was REALLY ALIVE NOW REALLY!!! And everybody stared at him. He was REALLY alive, they said,” said Corythosaurus. “Really alive, you can look at him, he moved and really moved, he was ALIVE!!!!”

Everybody circled above him and this big a circle, they circled around him. They were dancing and cheering and decorating the whole house of... of party candles and party cakes. There were no, no leaf for them but only his favourite in them... tiny thingy and decorations in the whole house, and decorating him too in some costumes and they cheered and happy. They singed, “(SINGS) MY HAPPY DINOSAURS, MY NEW ADVENTURE”, they said, singed and danced and cheered up. They said, “I myself!”

Cook said, “Why??? Why you sing those things?”

“(Strangled voice) Because all we here davinoars(?) singing, dinosaurs,” they said

“BUT WHY???? WHY????” said Cook

“(Strangled voice) Becaaause, there no time to lose”

“Why you saying that type of language?”

“(Strangled voice) Becaaause there no time to lose, we’re davinoars,” they said

They tied the tractors(?) out from him. They lied down and drove the tractors, the davin.. new davinoars (I asked her about the davinoars and was told this: a davinoar is a type of jackindore and is very tricky, of course a nineown creature... she’s also been elaborating on the various backstories to the various new creatures, characters and places. This afternoon, she pointed out the Nineown Open Plains to me on the world map – supposedly in Australia...) said, “(Strangled voice) My new mantra(?),” said the davinoar, the other davinoar, the happy cheer one. Decorating the whole house, said, “(Strangled voice) My new hideout and outside table(?).”

And the group said, “Your voice sounds... my voice.”

“(Strangled voice) No, not really,” said the cheer happy one, decorating the whole house. “(Strangled voice) Not you, it’s not like your voice,” he said, “(strangled voice) not you.”

“But it’s really like you!!!.... MY VOICE!”

The eggs didn’t hatched out yet.... “Huhh! My eggs...” said the predators, “..all my eggs, they didn’t hatch out!” (sounds distressed).

No time did they look.

“ALADAR!!!!! Don’t do that!!!” said Cook.

“That is not nice,” said Aladar to Cook.

“I’m just looking out in the sky,” said the davinoar.

“(Strangled voice) My new open adventure,” said Aladar, to his clear voice.

“Aladar! Why are you saying that language of the davinoars! Bah!!”

“Because it’s got too much alike,” said the ramphorynchus, “friend didn’t say anything,” ramphothingyrynchosaurus said.

“(Strangled voice) My new highness, my new high, my new highness,” said the iguanodon. Everybody cheered and clapped.

“WELCOME! WELCOME!” they said, “WELCOME TO NINEOWN OPEN PLAINS!” they said.

“Woolly mammoth??.... who’s woolly mammoth?.... woolly mammoth.”

They circled above him... they circled above him.....

“Aladar... are you feeling it?” said Corythosaurus.

“Daddy...”

“What???..... PAH!! I don’t like that language! That is Pah! thingy language. TAH!”

“You know what is Pah! thingy then...language?”

“I’m just remembering...

(to me) mommy, you know their language right? ‘Cause did Parasaurolophus said that language just now... it said that language mommy... said Triceratops said that language, also Parasaurolophus... I want something to drink!... Mommy! (Me: Yah...) Parasaurolophus said another language... it’s... it’s a.. it’s a.. it’s a..genie language... so I find it...... hmmm!.... It’s kohn, kuh, kohfoch(??)... Kuh language... alright! It’s Kuh language.”

“Pah! Kuh language! That is not nice, poor language... where were we?...Oh! We were here first!”

After the Nineown Open Plain of the Vulture

(To me) Do you know the Nineown Open Plain of the Vultures, do you know that? Language too? (Me: no I don’t. What language is that?) It’s a.. it’s another language, but it’s not a Nineown Open Plain. It’s a... it’s another language. It’s a.. it’s a Nineown Open Vulture thingy..majiggy. It is this language. F-pen(?) Bethany was a peckinvas(?). This dinosaurs died! So long... so, do you know that? It’s like a dinosaur I showed you, showed you yesterday. After... it’s this one! (Me: Diplodocus?). Yes, she’s talking about him. She’s talking about the new open vultures thingymajiggy house. Do you know his house? His house, you been there everyday yet or not only at night. Been... it so big, it got a round thingy? And Dack... you met him. (Me: Who met him?). You! (M: Me?) Yes. (M: Where?) Inside his house there, the valley of the round thingies? (M: The valley of the round thingies?) Yes. (M: What place is that?) That, that is his house, where he live with his.. with his grandparents? You met him before! (M: Ok.. when?) After.. it was at 11 o’clock! Is it 11 o’clock? (M: I don’t know, I don’t remember). It’s 11 o’clock! It’s 11 o’clock... so, where are we?..... we were here...

So they were not looking out. (Indecipherable whispering).