My singing storyteller, 2007-12-19

So her current thing is recitative-type singing. She's doing it all the time, making up tons of songs on the spur of the moment, and some of them really good too, only she never lets me record anything really good. The other day she started this song with

I stepped out of ancient history
Larry and Pip and me

And went on to sing this very interesting song about their adventures, that included monsters and things. She flat refused to let me record her though, saying that there were monsters in the song, so I couldn't possibly record it. (Still has the idea that if you record a thing it becomes real...)

I did manage to sneak up on her when she was pretend playing, and catch a bit of video of her singing. She stopped when she dived under the table after that, and told me she didn't want me to record her...

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Here's another new song from yesterday, this was in the context of storytelling, in a story she DID want recorded.

We are Grim and Rough (Click here to listen to her singing/recitative)

Two little trees, a branch, before
Before the branch is noble feet
Before and all before all the things
Before everyone you see
Before all there was to see
A tree is ever before a cobbler and all you see is all
Become is over all the things and
All the pops is here
Here is pops, here is storms
Here is racket storms, coming to the trees
With you, over, ha ha!
Little, little black you see
You see is all the things that you do
The thing that you do is not supposed to be white
Is supposed to be bad
You supposed to be bad (repeat 5 times)
For now
You are grim and rough (repeat 3 times)
You are grim
We are grim and rough (repeat 3 times)
Above all rough and before!
(Spoken: it was too helpless to be..)

Hey, I never said her songs made sense!

I still have to upload at least a portion of the hours and hours of recorded stories I have, not to mention transcribe them. Maybe after the New Year.... still too busy at the moment :(

A few random stories from Dec 2007

Since I won't have time to transcribe much this month, I've decided to skim through the vast amount of recordings I now have of her and post a few that really stand out just through listening to them. Click on the story titles to listen to the story.

Corin and Larry get married??? 2007-12-01
This is a fun story with lots of singing in it :)

Ok, here's the transcript of the above story

TEN! Corin leapt out from his shift! Corin leapt out, accidentally he STAMPED HIS FEET! And Corin got caught by an annoying figure that was Heung. He was from the elletonsting(?) “Extinct?” he said, “Corin’s extinct, and died long time ago now.” He looked at it. “Extinct Corin! Extinct Aladar!”

Larry whispered to Aladar, “Don’t die, don’t die, don’t die, don’t die.” He forced Corin to die, and Aladar was only left. Corin and Aladar died by the evil (untranscribable name!)

Larry looked at him. The aggravating fishtail was beginning to do this story, about Corin and Larry getting married. Corin singed the song.

Hey diddle diddle, of the cat and the fiddle,

Of a never said anything like it

For your grace and for your God

The singing went on and on

Larry, for your God, for the things of you said

For it and for it

According to John, of Larry

Of Larry of a stomp of a story and a war,

Of a corner and a story of a stinging

Of a story of a god of a song of a song

Of a sing of a song of a sang

For your God and for it, and forwards and forwards becker(?)

And for it and for it and for it and for it

The singing went on and on

For your God and thunderstorm

Of it and often

Of a storm of a navy and of a storm of a thing

The singing went on and on

Peace for it

Larry ran out of it

For it and for your God

For it and for Corin to turn turn turn turn turn

Navin(?)

The singing went on and on, on and on

Larry is down in it

But Corin is not

Not me either, not me, not me

Not me, not me, but Corin is down in the dumps

Larry did something and he ran out, and the singing went on and on

Ah stessus suh suh suh, ah stessus suh suh suh

Ah stessus suh suh suh, ho ho ho ho ho ho ho

Heh ho, stessus stoh teh toh

The singing went on and on, on and on, until Corin told what happened long time ago, he went a singing this

Show for it and all your toy(?)

For your God and all’d

All of the things that you did before

But your singing went on and on

The singing went on, on... on and on and on and on, until the whole house was full of singing, that Corin could hear it, coming through the trees and down the garden path and in led garden lane to it, and over the garden path it went. He followed it, in a most serious shape.

It went on and on. On, on, on and on, on and on. On, on, on and on.

For your God and in it

For Aladar is in

For your God and all’d

And the singing went on and on and on until

Stank stank stank

Oh, a hole

Larry looked at it in disgust. “That’s one o’clock,” he wondered to heself, should he put on his coat? Ran off with no coat. “I’m singing on and on later!”

MORE STORIES COMING SOON...

Larry is kidnapped by Aliens! 2007-12-10*

Well, I just had to transcribe this one right away, because she was really starting to freak out because she really wanted me to sit and listen to her tell this one besides recording it as well - I mean REALLY sit right beside her on the floor and pay full attention to her absolutely. She wouldn't start until I did that, and almost threw a tantrum because I was actually busy with something else...

I have been recording her, true to my word when I bought the new recorder, whenever she asks to be recorded only. So I have hours and hours of untranscribed recordings on the recorder, being too busy at the present time to do anything with the mounds of accumulating data... Her current storytelling is evolving again, and as intense as ever. She has introduced herself as a character in her stories, since a few days ago. One recent story started with its characters looking for God! Her use of language keeps progressing and I am very frequently surprised at her choice of phrasing or vocabulary, although it is hard to cite examples. I haven't had time to transcribe anything for a few weeks now, due to employment commitments, but will have to come back to do so as some of the stories are really really good!

Ok, so on to tonight's story. You can listen to her tell this story HERE.

Take note: there are two Corins in this story, the Good Corin and the Bad Corin.

Corin is going to talk about ...

(To me: whose name is this?
M: you know right?
B: Jesus
M: Mm-hm)

“Who’s Jesus?” he said, asking Larry to meet him at his birthday cake.

“Ummm... it’s this,” said Corin. “And that’s the one to stand for them God said,” and asked, “Where is Corin?” he said.

(Whispers) And germs said, “Couldn’t there be alien, catching them? Or could it be this coming and catching them? Could you there be CORIN???”

(To me: This is the BAD CORIN come, going to CATCH Larry.)

And Corin said, “Where are they? (Chuckles) Heh heh heh, that’s fun.” Corin asked could Larry come over his way. He comed with his document, but Corin asked “No, he couldn’t. Because he is my prisoner, and I don’t want him guessing. Clever, with all that worky stuff, all that rubbish.”

Corin blast off into the air, leaving Corin behind. Larry asked, “Who could eat all the old faschi(?),” to heself?... “Corin, go home!”

Corin ran home as fast as he could. He said, “Corin... no... Fatty! Larry locked up in a warm state, where aliens catched him there and put him in the fireblast!”

“Oh no!” said Fatty, “It’s almost time to.... Daisy to arrive, with Larry. Larry with Pip.”

“(Whispers) Yo! That was a ghost!”

Bets said, “Fatty, where is Larry? Didn’t you found him?

“Didn’t find him anywhere! He’s been captured by the three aliens.”

“Huh!!” said Pip, “That’s disgusting! We don’t want to be captured too! We might be locked in a tower and couldn’t... couldn’t save him.”

“Oh no! We don’t want that to happen!” said Bets in disgust. “No one would have to...(breaks into fake sobbing)”

The aliens comed in a trancelike state, near where they were talking. “Maybe they heard us,” whispered Larry. Larry put fire on them, and blast off by heself, ON THEIR spaceship. (Chuckling) He escaped, then he put fire on the aliens! Then he walked the ship BY heself.

(To me: Mommy!
M: I’m listening
B: He PUT FIRE ON THE ALIENS!!! And ran off and DRIVED THEIR spaceship BY HESELF!!!
M: Okay...)

“That’s a good blast!” Larry ran out in the garden path and into the garden lane. He didn’t found his sister. “What? Is Bets here?”

Bets said, “I’m here!” She was hiding behind (stifled chuckle) Larry then was now finding that it was now getting out of his BACK (small chuckle).

Larry stamped his feet.

“Hey, Corin is here to say hello, alright?” said Bets. “Hello,” she said, in a kind voice that Larry couldn’t catch up with him, with a voice in so low.

And Corin asked, “Could you come to tea with us later? In the sweet shop?”

“Ya,” said the man, “you can.”

Later on they had a beautiful sing along. (Whispering) Larry was down in the dumps. (Normal voice) Afternoon they had a very (whispers) nice tea shop, bye bye later.

“The song, the song... (suddenly sings at the top of her voice) I KNOW YOU yi yi! Going out of the garden path and in the garden lane..... (speaks) It’s back here, but they didn’t wrote it... it said, (sings loudly again) STUCE, LARRY AND CORIN, to Corin’s annoyance, to Larry.... (speaks) Don’t you sing the song?” said Corin. “It goes like this....(sings loudly) LARRY HAD A LITTLE... BUT LARRY,” Corin stopped.

“Do you want to have this singing, or... (sings loudly again) TISSATORE.....”

“(Speaks) Ummmmm... Tissistore,” said the other man... other boy standing near him. It was Larry.

(Me: what is Tissistore?
B: they don’t know, they didn’t found out yet. They just found a song,not a book.)

Larry asked Tistasong to come over. “He’s a human!” he said, “he’s a human. But his song is aggravating.”

“Do you think his song is aggravating me?” said Corin.

(To herself: 14, Hoong. (This is how she indicates her Section/Chapter headings nowadays)).

“Alright, let’s go home. I’m tired of this.”

They ran home as fast as they could. Quietly, Corin slipped his drawer and asked Larry to come with him, but Larry didn’t agree. “Goodness sake! Your dinner is coming soon.”

Saturday’s came, and his breakfast was laid on the table. Had breakfast and enjoyed a delicious meal. “(Sings loudly) AFTERNOON AND CORIN IS DOWN IN THE DUMPS NEAR LARRY! OUR SONG NOT YET AND THE SONG THAT LARRY LET...”

Everything was too much for Larry.

“He really have to stop the singing.... (As though thinking to himself) Singing means? .... about Corin’s asked for asteroid, crashing to the earth. About Corin’s dinosaur’s extinct. It was real, and couldn’t talk.” He forgot about Corin’s needs(?), to Larry’s annoyance.

Larry hit his foot in a basket toot, and ran off without his toot. His toot was in his pocket, and his other toot was in his pocket too, but some, the other toots wasn’t. They had fallen when he throwed things. They falled there when he throwed the thing in Corin’s terse(?). His parcel was this, extinct... Corin ranned away...

“Ffffff....I feel like it,” said Corin, “but I don’t feel like the song today. Don’t like the song today because it’s so boring to have a beautiful song going on my bedroom. You think it’s born to be in your bedroom too? I think it’s born to be in anyone’s bedroom...”

No one had a blanket for, apple instead, that woman. Corin asked could Larry have a bite of it, then the old pedlar woman said, “No, these are Russian apples, and I don’t want anyone to eat them. Only ME myself could eat them.”

“Alright,” said Larry, “I will fight you!” he put flash on them, on the old pedlar woman, and he started to fight with her. She ran on of the cliff and fell down of the cliff, and the whole boulder be struck, and she was dead. No more of her. The vultures circled and ate her all up.

Corin said “Welcome!” to Larry. Corin asked still could Larry come, and stussed(?) over Larry’s annoyance. “Look over there...” they sighed. “Anyone, could Corin and Larry have to be like that???”

“Couldn’t stay for too long, otherwise Corin would grow much bigger and would have to go over his way.”

His mummy called for him. “HEY! YOU’RE BREAKFAST IS HERE! IT’S COOLING DOWN ALREADY!”

He ran for his lunch, and was circled, and was now getting out of his hot coat. He was wearing for a little time away, when he ran to his holiday and found it was very very hot. Corin said, “WHAT’S THAT?????” But no answer. “WHAT’S THAT?????” he said and shouted. “WHAT’S THAT?????” he said, ““WHAT’S THAT?????”

But there was no answer when he shouted. He shouted much later when he finished his breakfast.

(To me: Mummy...
M: And then what happened?
B: He shout some more. It was at the edge, then he shouted and he had his breakfast later.
M: And then?
B: The end.
M: That’s the end?
B: Ya.)

Snapshots of Bethany**

Just a quick update for Bethany's faithful blog readers. Since I bought the new recorder to record her stories about 2 weeks ago, I already have 8 hours worth of recordings from her - and these are just the ones that she said she WANTED me to record. I haven't had the time to convert them to lower web-friendly resolutions yet.

Here are a couple of brief video clips that beautifully show her animation and expressiveness when storytelling - as you can see she really gets very involved with her own stories. You can't really follow the story in either of these clips, they were much much longer than what I've excerpted here.

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Her current batch of stories have taken yet another very surprising twist. Her current main character, Corin, who was formerly Corythosaurus but now is human, has evolved into 10 Corins, some good and some bad, and Larry has fallen in love with him, supposedly because there aren't enough girls in her stories so some boys have to fall in love with boys. Their latest escapades include getting married to each other.. She's also been exploring the theme of premeditated killing. Hopefully this is just a phase that will pass sooner rather than later.

Also, a couple of days ago she drew a set of illustrations of various characters in her stories. Here they are


This is Corin



This is Pip



This is Larry


and Larry in disguise


This is Bets


And this is Fatty


And this is where they all live.

Larry also appears in this last painting she did - he's supposedly the brown blob at the lower right corner of the picture. It's a forest scene, with a path for dinosaurs to get through.

The Larry stories continue, 2007-11-24

She wanted us to record her 5 times today, although sometimes she starts a new story within the same session. She's quite serious about wanting to be recorded now, she will actually wait to start her story until we're ready with the recorder! This whole series is definitely influenced by Enid Blyton's Mystery series, yet the actual stories are her own, as always.

CLICK ON THE TITLES TO HEAR BETHANY'S STORIES FROM TODAY

1. The Other Larry*
2. Fatty is Naughty
3. The story continues
4. Tension between Larry and Corin
   
5. more to be added...
   

Even more adventures of Larry, 2007-11-23

All stories recorded today. Again, we only recorded those stories she said we could. All the stories are connected as usual. It's interesting also hearing her comment to herself things like supposed chapter headings and, one of her most common phrases, "so, where did we stop?" because it really sounds as if she's reading from a book, and indeed that's what she always pretends to do when she tells stories, yet the books she reads from have nothing to do with anything she's talking about and her favourites remain adult-level books with loads of text and no illustrations in them.


CLICK ON THE SECTION TITLES TO LISTEN TO BETHANY TELL HER STORY

1. Larry sees various things that scare him
2. More doings of Larry, Corin and Pip
   
3. Changing sizes*
   
4. He sang so sweetly* (worth listening to for the brief singing :)
   
5. Larry has a busy time
   
6. Larry's busy time continues
   
7. And continues...
8. And continues some more...
9. And even more* (very expressive in this one!)

More Adventures of Larry, 2007-11-22

All these stories were recorded today. I made a decision the other day to only record the stories she explicitly tells me to record. She's been very aware of my new recorder and really seems to be playing up to it, asking to be recorded about every other story - so her actual output today was about twice as much as what we (her daddy as well as me) recorded.

Her phrase of the day seems to be "he shot down at top speed near his companion". All the stories follow on one from another.

CLICK ON THE STORY TITLES BELOW TO LISTEN TO BETHANY TELL THE STORY

1. More Adventures of Larry
2. Working out her ideas...
3. Where is Bets?*
4. Larry's Adventures Continue*
5. Larry's Companions

The Sleeping Dragon & Other Stories, 2007-11-20**

Between the story I posted yesterday and today she told over 2 hours worth of stories that she wanted recorded, that I recorded onto 21 new files... there is NO WAY I can transcribe at this rate... I still haven't even cleared previous months' backlogs :(

So, since this new recorder records with such clarity, I've decided to simply post some of the MP3s without transcription. Her diction is very clear now too, and her fluency so much improved that I am sure most will not have any trouble following her storytelling just by listening to her.

I do however need to compress all the files as the high quality originals are too large for Internet posting, so I need a bit of time to do that.

I can't get over how much the character Corin has evolved and is rapidly evolving at the present time (these recent few days)...

Note: for any new listeners/readers, you will hear her from time to time say a number followed by a word or phrase - these are her "chapter headings" - she sounds as if she is reading from some book, and she does use a book as a prop always, but is not reading from the book at all.


STORIES FROM NOV 19

Listen to Bethany tell the story of Sheepridge

Listen to Bethany tell the story of The Chinese Fatty*
In the last part of this story you can hear her rebuking me for dozing off while recording her!

Listen to Bethany tell the story of The Chinese Fatty (Part II)*

Listen to Bethany tell the story of Corin talks to Corin**

Listen to Bethany tell the story of the Underworld and On-top-world*

Listen to Bethany tell the story of Larry's New Dog

Listen to Bethany tell the story of At Half Past Ten Sharp Part I and Part II

Listen to Bethany tell the story of He's a Wonder, He Really Is


STORIES FROM NOV 20

Here is the first one I converted, and it's a really good one too! She was very adamant that I record this one, and I've noticed that the ones she specifically tells me to record are usually her better stories.

Listen to Bethany tell the story of The Sleeping Dragon**

Listen to Bethany tell the story of The Killings at the Nineown Open Plains

Listen to Bethany tell the story of The Find-Outers and Mr Goon


STORIES FROM NOV 21

Listen to Bethany tell the story of The Find-Outers and Mr Goon Again

Listen to Bethany tell the story of Larry's Missing Paste

Listen to Bethany tell the story of Enid Blyton's Secret Messages
(This is merely a retelling in her own words of the last section of this book)


Here's a brief video clip I took this morning (21st Nov). I've decided to only record the stories she tells me to because there are far too many (will upload more onto this post once I've converted them). She didn't ask me to record this one, but got so animated half way through that I just HAD to capture it on video - of course as soon as she felt the camera on her she piped down at once, but as you can see, she soon forgot it was there, or at least appeared to!

Watch "Larry Dies and Comes Alive Again" (NOV 21)

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Corin Transcends Two Worlds, 2007-11-17**

I bought a new top-quality recorder, specially to record her stories with better clarity, and also to allow me to record her from a distance (since she sometimes so strongly objects to being recorded at all!) It's a Zoom H2, and it works perfectly! As a result of my new toy, I have almost an hour's worth of new stories from only yesterday and today. I may at some point revert to merely posting the MP3s and not transcribing them at all, since I'm so slow with the transcriptions (they take up a lot of time, that I don't always have!), esp. since with this new recorder I think nobody should have any problem understanding her speech.

So here's the first story I recorded on the new recorder.

This story appears to lack coherence in parts, but if you read/listen to the entire thing, is overall not at all aimless. She introduces some very interesting new ideas here: Corin being a part of two different worlds or perhaps times, Corin masquerading as Fatty and confusing the others. Her vocabulary and language is as usual phenomenal, although she appears to have also defined and used several new words of her own invention within this story (I don’t think they are mispronunciations of other words – she picks up, by some sort of osmosis I’d say, new words from the various storybooks we read together – that’s how I usually know what words she means, besides being very familiar with and able to understand her typical toddler mispronunciations).

LISTEN TO HER TELL THIS STORY HERE

Corin was down in the dumps thinking he wouldn’t die for ever and ever. But he did die forever and ever and ever.... ever! And he raced off, in full speed before he died.

“A long time ago,” he wondered. “Maybe long time ago, that I died.... Then I went to this world, and maybe I died.” He wished he wasn’t at home, so he could visit the merry-go-round and all the other countries that he didn’t seen before. He called it Five Garden Pool. Larry said, “That.... what’s that?” he said.

“Pull off this, I have a stomach ache. I have a stomach ache, so I couldn’t come in,” said Larry.

“But you have to!” said Fatty. “It says ‘Fatty and Larry could only go in. Not Pip.’ No Pip’s in – wrong if you have a Pip there.”

“Ba ba ba,” said Larry. “This is NOT a proper way! It’s just ‘ba ba ba’,” said Larry in disgust. “It’s just ‘ba ba ba’. It’s not anything else, just ‘ba ba ba’”.

“Why you say ‘ba ba ba’? Not ‘ba ba ba’... it look says ‘oonch oonch’”.

“Oonch oonch???.... what’s that???” said Larry.

Corin leapt down. It was Seranjy. Seranj looked down at his servant. Looked down at Corin... amazing feature. He looked.

The footmarks of Corin were down at the steps of the wait.... the wait room. Good! They could slip in quietly without seeing anyone pass by. They went in cautiously down the steps, and soon found themselves in a Lorenzo case. They looked at the Koompt.

“Good. Old Fatty’s only there.”

They slipped in quietly through the steps to the wardrobe, to the Lorenzo’s, but they weren’t there. The Lorenzo’s case was locked up. And they get out from the other door. They popped late in, properly. The little poodle was standing... Poppet was delighted to see them. She danced around their ankles, feeling hopefully they wouldn’t go. They went! And she barked loudly when they went.

“Dear little poodle. I hope no one might pinch her,” said Bets. “Dear little poodle, I hope you wouldn’t get pinched by those Lorenzos. I hope not.”

Fatty said, “She wouldn’t... she’s very kind! She wouldn’t hurt us. She’s a just dog.”

“Oh, Fatty, is this a Lorenzo case? I hope it’s a Lorenzo case... we like Lorenzo cases...”

“Ya. The Poppet the little poodle doesn’t know how to solve anything (chuckles). So she just lives with the Lorenzos.”

“Oh! Is it anything else?” said Bets. “I do know something else... the Grinch.”

“The Grinch????..... what’s the Grinch?” said Larry.

“The Grinch is something like Koop,” said Fatty in disgust. “I will tell you later that because it’s so quiet here that we couldn’t talk!”

Larry needs some... Larry said, “Some space for me.... there’s some space for me? Where I can do something? I want to just sneak around and see if anything punching happen.” Then they scurried off with the delighted Buster on Fatty’s ankles, dancing delightedly at Fatty, keeping a watch out for Mr Goon.

Hoon was down at Fatty’s shed. They were all gathering up a competition.

“Look!” said Larry. “There’s a discovery... about the Lorenzos.”

“Where were the Lorenzos? And where was Corin?”

“Corin???... who’s Corin?” said Larry in disgust. “Who is he?”

“He’s the one that we helped. That he helped up solve the mystery... Tally-Ho Cottage. That morning, he leapt and yelled for ‘Help! Help Larry!’”.

“Oh!” said Larry. “Oh... so that what it is. It’s about something else, that someone locked up them,” said Larry. “Look. Look at this.” He smiled with looked at the delighting poodle.

“Larry.... Poppet. Take a mirror picture.”

“Look!” said Larry, a grin on his face, appeared down on his grim other muscle face. And the cross face went on Corin’s. They taked the smile of Poppet the poodle.

“I hope you wouldn’t get punchit(?) of those Lorenzo case.”

“Ya,” said Fatty. I hope she would do that too. To the little poodle. I hope they wouldn’t.... She’s so kind! to us that she couldn’t hop a bit fast. (Hums cheerfully) Hm hm hm hm, (sings) shaggy eyebrows, shaggy eyebrows.”

“Look,” said Larry, a grin on his face filled the room! Delighted to see all of them together. They looked at delighted Buster that was dancing around their ankles for a while and licking Fatty on the back.

Good old Buster! He was safely in the room, getting up each of the children’s licks on his fur. He leapt and yelled. But Larry said, “No, don’t do that Buster! That’s an awful noise. Everyone will hear it and run away. Also Poppet, the little poodle.” To his left, Poppet the little poodle’s nose begin to fade down at Buster’s little lick on her face.

“Goodbye!” said Fatty to Poppet. Poppet didn’t like them to go. She was dear.

“I hope she wouldn’t have punchit this.. this old Lorenzo case. I hope she wouldn’t get punchit of the Lorenzos. I hope,” said Larry.

“I hope too,” said Fatty.

“Also me,” said Pip. “But I’m a little bit punchit about her... Lorenzos. They keep punching her all the time. If they listened to us they will still punchit her – the Lorenzos are very naughty. They always listen to the Lorenzos that are the same ones, and the also went... go down at them. See you Poodle. She always don’t want anyone to go!”

“Silly, she’s silly. I call her silly because... Corin’s naughty.”

“You call her silly because Corin is naughty?”

“Ya! Look, he always likes to go up and lick Corin’s feet. Don’t feed and, and...”

“Stop that now! You two... I want to listen to something that aggravating. And can you tell me Fatty?”

Fatty said, “I couldn’t, because the other one is talking and wants to know depested(?) things, like my own stories.”

“OH!” said Bets. “I’m not waiting for my turn, I’m waiting for someone else’s turn.”

“Oh,” said Fatty. “Pip, can you tell her?”

Pip said, “UH! UH! UH!”

“Then you have to wait for your turn Bets,” said Larry. “You just wait.”

“Just wait? But I don’t want, I wouldn’t wait. It’s scary for me to wait here all by myself. It’s aggravating, I couldn’t wait now. For once, down in his dumps.”

“It aggravating,” said Larry. “No one else is recording anyone! Is.. is... is.... is anyone.... here,” said Larry. “Yay!” said Larry

“Yay!” said Fatty. “Yay!” said Larry. “Yay!” said Fatty. (Chuckles) They saying “Yay” because all of them having a show.

“YAY!” said Larry. “Yay!” said Pip (breaks into laughter). All of them are saying “Yay.”

“Corin, LARRY!!”

“Ssh! Be quiet Larry..... Pip. Knowing someone might see us in the play yards and lock... that might be Mr Goon, the rich policeman.” Mr Goon always follow them around when they solving mysteries.

“Leading him a dance also,” Larry said. “We are also leading him a dance, Corin.”

Corin said, “ARGH! I’m not. I’m pretending. Just pretending to be Fatty.”

“Oh. So you’re following us around?”

“Ya!” said Fatty. “He was pretending to be me then. That’s the real Fatty.” The other one, Corin, they didn’t know it WASN’T Fatty. They know they didn’t know if it was Corin.

To Larry’s annoyance, Corin runned away down a path, and a scary mud of shows caught him by the neck, and put him in a lock down of a little bit of luck. “That’s a little bit of luck! He managed to escape!” said Larry. “I wonder where’s him now? Maybe he’s in the bird show waiting for something to happen.”

“Oh,” said Fatty. “Could he be with the Lorenzo’s? Or he could be with the Wunge?(?)”

“Oh.” Corin scuttled off in illument(?), down his lane and down the other path to a race.

“Corin!” said Larry. “Be quiet! No one is down the lane there. Someone might catch you! And put you in a lock.”

“Ya!” said Fatty. “I did scare, I did scupped(?) down a lane. I did scupped down.” So they scupped down a lane, punchit who were with them down it.

“(Sings softly) He sang so she then drink, supper.” Corin sang, as the birds twinkled in the moonlight, Corin escaped to a dark open plain. Of lightning FLASHED down at him both, and he walked to the Nineown Open Plain. Corin was down in the dumps, feeling he wouldn’t escape down with Corin in the shed. He wished he couldn’t go down to and fro. Corin might be scared of his annoyance. He saw the main roads crossing bathed(?) down, they bathed down at him when he walked. Corin went down and down, over the Wunge(?) before his heart could break. They... they... they... the others were gone! He looked around him, but they wasn’t there. They were gone! DOWN he went, following another one to a path where legs were closed. Down they went. Boom! Corin wondered to himself, “Corin, could you do that Corin?”

Corin said, “OH!” said heself. “You couldn’t be selfish.” (Laughing) HE GOT SO MANY MOUTHS! All over his body, so they are all talking!

(Me: who?

B: All. He got so much mouths!

Me: Corin?

B: Ya! Maybe he’s a wizard.

Me: How come?

B: He’s got so many mouths and eyes and everything.)

“Oh,” said his body, his whole body. “Larry!” his so many mouths said, “Eeeee!!!!! I am a wizard now!” He changed to a digraphic(?) moan. Moaning type of sound. He gasped. He gasped, (singsong) and his heart beat fast. His heart will beat fast. “(Singing softly) Sang so she there, she, he was across the street. She sang so he was across the street. Street. He sang so she’s there, across the street.... sang so she there...”

(Suddenly loudly) Corin leapt! And yelled. Once he’s hopped. He hopped, down and so many eyes creature and he went down on so many mouths thing, and he got SO MANY MOUTHS that he... that he... couldn’t manage them. He put one down, and put another one... put so many down, then he got only one left. And he taked that one off, and he GOT NO MOUTHS!!!!!! And then he “Mmm mmm” (made funny face here, then breaks out giggling.) then Corin didn’t know what to say.

When he went back he said (makes the same funny face, in silence). The others looked at him. “Can you talk?” said Larry. (Makes the same funny face, in silence), said Corin in disgust.

“Sshh!” said Aladar. “Everyone be quiet. Everyone be quiet.” And Corin said (makes the same funny face in silence – you can then hear me giggling on the recording because she really looks very comical, and she laughs too then.

Me: And then? Continue, continue, sorry!).

Corin leapt and yelled, but Corin didn’t stop, he just says (makes the same funny face in silence). Corin leapt! As he walked to a deep forest, and they looked upon there. They run, (singing) can they run there.. heh heh heh, heh heh heh...

(Me: then what happened... has your story finished? Are you going to continue?

B: I went like that (makes the same funny face again).

M: Is that the end of your story?

B: Ya.

M: What happened to Corin?

B: Corin... Corin said nothing. Just stand still like that (with funny face again, then runs away).

It's only a dream, 2007-11-13*

She specifically asked me to record this story this morning, then left me hanging....

You can listen to her telling me this HERE

He was in a dream... he was not in his real bunch, he was in a dream. Fatty and the Five Find Outers... wasn’t real... the purpose, what can ever be the purpose???

“Larry!” Aladar nudged Corin. “(Whispers) Kim, Kim, Kim...”
Kim was... was quite ordinary. He used it for a repitition, where the repitition woke up to another repitition.

Larry nudged Pip, “(Whispering) Don’t you see it? We are in a dream! We are with dinosaurs!” And they watched... they watched... prints. Pip think their little bit of luck wasn’t for her.

They were in Mr Goon’s house, then Mr Goon was in a dream too, that Corin was nodding... he saw Corin.

To me: Mommy!

Me: Can you continue? It’s very interesting. What happened in their dream?

B: I wouldn’t tell you that part.
(And promptly changed the subject, argh! )

First new story in ages! 2007-11-10**

She put a recording ban on me for more than 2 weeks, or perhaps closer to a month now. She's been telling as many stories as ever during this time, just not allowing me to record any. I got an explanation from her about this 4 days ago.

She said that I couldn't record any of her current stories because they all included Mr Goon (a character originally from the Mystery series of books written by Enid Blyton, that we are now reading). Her present run of stories all involve the main characters from this series (the five children Fatty, Larry, Pip, Bets, Daisy and Buster the dog, and Mr Goon) as well as Corin and Aladar. The characters in Bethany's stories do not necessarily play the same role as they do in Enid Blyton's books - for e.g. Larry and Pip play a much more prominent role in Bethany's stories than in Blyton's books. She is also not merely retelling Blyton's stories (of course, knowing her past storytelling, this is to be expected).

Anyway, Mr Goon in Bethany's stories is still a very unpleasant character, to use Bethany's words he is "bad". The interesting part of her explanation was that if I recorded her stories, he would become real somehow , so I couldn't/shouldn't/mustn't do so. She said she has to tell the stories (she's still saying the same thing about the stories being in her tummy and having to get out somehow!), but if she just tells them the badness in them wouldn't become real, but it might if I record them!

She also told me that Mr Goon will not always be bad, and that when he becomes good I can then record her again. As you know, transformation of various main characters has played a significant role in her stories in recent months. Previously there was the good Corin and the bad Corin, and the bad Corin somehow transformed and now the two Corins appear to be one character only, who is good. And of course there is that interesting transformation from dinosaur to human that were undergone by three of her characters, Pip (not the same one as in the Enid Blyton books - this Pip was present before she ever heard of that one) and Corin (who used to be Corythosaurus), and Aladar, who is apparently STILL not finished transforming into human yet. I am not clear on the present status of the old Pip - he was in the process of transforming before she was introduced to the Pip of Enid Blyton, and I think she has somehow melded the two Pips into one, although she is quite clear in stating that Pip the dinosaur and Pip the boy are two different characters if asked about it. Corin is supposedly fully human now. I think I did mention before that she said all these changes (she uses this word, not transformation) are by "magic".

Anyway, the recording ban ended yesterday evening apparently, because she allowed me to record three stories then, and ASKED me to record the one I'm transcribing here below.


So... on with her story. This was recorded in the car, with the Gospel of John as her book prop.


LISTEN TO HER TELL THIS STORY while you read the transcript - for ease of reading, I have omitted some of the repeated words that are equivalent to "stammering" of some sort.

(To me: I’m looking who is, they will find out it. The rest. Not Aladar. Aladar got caught).

Aladar got caught by a wood that was caught on a branch where he perched, perched on it. He gave that wood a snap... at it. And it scratched him, and the rest, “How? But... I WOULDN’T!!! I WOULDN’T!!!”

“That’s not right,” said Pip, a little bit shamed. “Be quiet.”

Corin leapt out and said, “WHAT???? Aladar got caught???? Did he? Did he ever? Show me! Show where... where is he.”

“He got caught by the wood. He got caught by the wood, then he grabbed at the wood and the wood snapped at him and the wood caught him, and he imagined that he was in a dream!”

THEN he opened his door and entered a dank foot(?) flat room that was not comfortable, and he gazed at the amazing pillows that he forgot about last night. Then he left and gazed at it, and he opened his door and entered the dankless room near him. The bad wood on recording is very bad. He can get caught.

Corin was short, and divided into small seeking groups. And Aladar leapt out and this... this is the bad Aladar! He’s going to save the other one!

(Me: there are two Aladars?
B: Yes! The other one is good now.
Me: Ok.
B: The other one, Corin asked him to be good, so he promised he would.
M: Ok.
B: Then he was bad. He KILLED everyone!

After she finished the story, she supplied me with more backstory on the two Aladars. She said the good Aladar is now fully human, having “changed” from a dinosaur. The bad one is still in the process of changing from dinosaur to human. Both have sisters, and both sisters are good. The bad Aladar came to join the group after leaving his own country which was at war. He came with his sister. )

(Sighs heavily) It was north. Then Corin leapt and Aladar searched, and when they ride on the... they ride on something, they screeched at its legs, that it’s foot be very very strong... and it was mighty. And strategy, and urged... the others screamed, “HELP!!!!!!!”

But Corin didn’t miss. He was just in time to go when he heard a small squeaking sound, “(High pitched voice) Ahh!!! Ah!! An ugly pterosaur’s coming to eat me!” It was Choon that was miles far, that he couldn’t see.

“WAIT!!!” said a voice. “I’m coming to help you Choon!” One wasn’t Corin. It was the mummy... the mummy from that kid that said “HELP! HELP!” all the time.

“Open this,” said Larry. He didn’t budge. The others almost laughed. “What’s that, over there?” He pointed to a nearby cave. He saw a something.... open figure that marched to them when they walked past it. They looked. (Makes noise like blowing raspberries, but in several short bursts). And they pointed to a nearby cage... THERE. They disappeared into it, and obeyed Corin to go to the Interstate.

Corin went to the Interstate of course, and he soon found the wood that he was looking for, and brought it home, down to his mother’s carriage where it was kept. They kept Pteranodon safe. They got Pteranodon safe. Safe... so they always kept this close, even mothers and daddies! But he was not keeping the wood, see.

They kept Corin in a locked... in a locked room with the Pteranodon. He went out, unlocked himself, the door behind him. And the door crunch out to capture, but he was very far away... at home now. He said to Aladar, “This is MUCH more effective than before! I never broke into... almost see us,” (small guffaw) in laughter.

He approached and said, “We’ve five mint seed.” (Chuckles). He showed Aladar the seed, “And the other Aladar is locked in there.” Aladar leapt out and disappeared into some dark open plains, of lightning fast. And other woods touched.... and touched such a nearby branch. (In an undertone) And he caught... he went in there... get some. (Back to normal voice) He went in there, and didn’t get caught. He get the other Aladar and bringed him home and they lived happily ever after, and Corin toast a branch on a clasp of cactus, then... then urged him not to go.

He soon got home, and heard a squeaky noise. He woked up! And jumped! Aladar screamed, and they ran up in the room. Went out... they RAN OUT FROM THE ROOM! And hide behind the doors (sounding increasingly urgent and speaking faster and faster) and they locked it behind them and they OPENED... opened it when the sound came again. They HID behind the doors, and locked up and they opened the door and “Sssssssh!........ to the carriage.”

And they safe, but they were still frightened of the noise.

Corin BOOMED into the woods, and DASH it out, and Aladar was JUST beginning to go when a squeaky noise came. “(Squeaky small voice) Help! Help! Lorenzo is coming down me! Help! Help! Someone help me, help!”

Without warning, Aladar STAMPED and hide behind Larry, and Larry slipped! But no answer came from the amazing figure. And no approached figure came out.

He approached a branch where Fatty was laying, down deep in the dumps. The tenants(?) were soft and no one could hear it, that he was ditched and beaten. For the first time he was on a trick that the others could see very well, to his amaze when he... when he approached on a... on a amazing figure that where they could come up, down in the Hollies and lift up, and screamed in delight, “Fatty! Fatty!”

Without warning, Corin pulled Fatty down and the BUMPED into Pip, that was warning not to go to the woods, and he was... he was CONFUSED!! And the OTHERS bumped into him! And they all SHUFFLED down, and they was SHURPED(?) and SHURPED by another one.... Corin! Corin STABBED and yelled, “(Squeals) Larry! Larry!” But Larry was already there and scrupped down, and without warning he was already at the back. And he pulled.... pulled and pulled, hard as he can. And they pulled together. And each of them scrunched and scrunched together. And each of them do that.

(Me (after a few moments silence): What is scrunched?

B: Scrunched means they BUMPED into every. Scrunched means they bumped into each of them. Another person and another person and another person and another person!

Me: Ok.)

“Larry, you go in and free...when, when I smile giving them face,” left out from the hedge and obeyed to go with him. Larry leapt, and lived happily ever after.

The end.

The Nineown Open Chickening of Aladar, 2007-09-13

The Nineown Open Chickening of Aladar.

The Nineown Chickening was very very powerful thingy and it was very shim to learn about it. His father and his din(?) and shims, his ships and steps and the shimp(?)... “What happened to them?” he said, grumpily looking at Aladar.

Aladar said, “I will go to the Interstate and look for them in there,” said Aladar. So he went into Aladar’s... Corin went into Aladar’s pocket and find his parents. It was not... and he went out from Aladar’s pocket, it was not there. And they not there.

“We might have to find them in one of those places that they went last night... in one of those places...that they went.”

“But it’s... it’s so far away! How can you get there? How can you?”

“Walk down the trees, walk. Walk down and walk.”

Chapter Eight. Without Where is That?

“Where is that noise?” he said.

“Come on, you looking at the face.”

“I am... I did come here to repair... Aladar, I am Corin. I have to come inside, let me come inside please. Let me come inside please. Let me come inside please.”

“I won’t.”

“You have to only let me pay with (indecipherable) of it. You can’t let me in yet? Why?”

“Because I need to you to pay with dollars please.”

So he paid, then he let him in. “YIPPEE!” he said, the boy looking at the real man there that paid him.

“I will go to the Interstate,” he said, grumpily looking at the face of the man. “I will go to the Interstate today.”

“It’s very far away,” said the man.

“What shall we do?”

A BANG came, then everyone jumped in surprise. Then they said, they shouted, “Who’s that?” They clambered out, and the clambered down into one of his pockets. Then he wiped and wiped. “Are you sure I will go to the Interstate?”

“Ya! I will go there with my friends,” said Aladar. So he went to the Interstate, then he was really there. So he went inside.

“What are you doing? What happened? Something is happening, what?”

“Something is wrong.”

“Something is wrong?”

“Happened to me... I’m injured, look. I’m injured.”

“You are injured? What?”

“Because someone broked my heel,” he said. Said the boy.

Aladar said, “I will go. I will go and go and fix it in a second when you go out without the Shims. Please take my money please.” Then they both taked his money, then Aladar SCAMPERED up into the green woods. Corin let them pay. And he goed with, Corin goed with him. And they both of them scampered up, the two friends.

“Sssh! Someone’s coming. (Whispering) Aladar said I won’t sleep and I don’t know why.” Everyone (indecipherable whispered phrase).

BOOM came, then everyone shouted. “WHAT’S THAT???” said Aladar. “Sssh!” said Corin. “(Whispering) That is them, that is them,” said Corin. “That is them, that is them.The goed into the stream. Out. I lead the way.”

So he leaded the way to where his home is. He’s sick, Aladar fixed it.

“There. A white (indecipherable)” said Aladar.

“But I’m still injured!” Aladar fixed it some more.

“I feel fine already. I feel fine, right? That good job Aladar,” said Corin to Aladar.

“That is very noisy.” They scampered into the deep forest again. And they left.

“What, what... who’s bugging me?” said Aladar.

“I feel, like you also, someone touching me,” said Corin.

Aladar said, “I think it’s a.. maybe a bug.” So they scampered into the deep forest with the two bugs. Then it was VERY dark. And very care of the bugs.

Aladar’s bug said, “It’s not very deep. It’s very Shim... that’s why you can’t see anything.” So they came out of the center. Aladar know this. Aladar know the thing.

“It’s a moose,” said Aladar.

“Yes it is,” said Corin.

The bug said, “No, it’s not a moose. It is Shim.”

“It is SHIM!!!!”

Then their two voice close, looking at the thing. “Yup,” and then “What was that?” said Corin’s bug. “It is a moose,” said Corin’s bug.

Said Aladar’s bug, “That is a Shim’s bug,” he said, clambered into the deep forest and with Aladar. Aladar was very very noisy.

“No,” he said, “that is not a moose. That is a goat,” said Aladar. “Be sense. That is not a moose,” he said, clambered into the deep forest.

“HUHHH!!!!”

More scampering in the forest, 2007-09-13

One said, “Mom, can I go with two Ms?”

Contents.

“So where you want to go? Why you want to go there?” Said I

“But I like to,” he said gloomily looking at one of the Fomats, and one of the Shims said, “You can go there later, with one of the Shims, and I will go to the Interstate, and they will go with I because I need them.”

All his property. All his property. He scampered down into the deep part of the woods and found he was too mean to be with on there. “I will go without it.” He will choose him to go in on there, on the kip(?), into the deep forest. “And I will go too.”

He scampered down, “I will go into the deep forest. I think I am still slim.” So he scampered down into the deep forest. “And I will go to the house, on the house, but not on the woods inside the house.” He said “I (yells loudly) have to go.”

And they had to scamper. They had to scamper. He will hug. He will hug. He will hug the whole place.

“I will go into the proper entry, to found the Interstate.”

Adventures Deep in the Forest, 2007-09-13

Transcribers note: Her word of the day seems to be "scampered"

They scampered down into the open woods, into the dark new forest. They were holding their lamp, so they can see where they were going and where they’re on. It was very far away. It was very far away. It was very far away, and very teeny... they walked deeper into the woods and they found something that led to the broad bend, but it was not like Chin. Chin’s one was very hard and on, and very slim. He had scampered down into the deep woods, and scampered up into the orange wood.

“ALADAR!!! ARE YOU DOING ANYTHING???”

And he said, “No I’m not!”

He scampered down into the deep woods. And he zeroed down, deeper into the woods. And scampered up, he scampered down again. Till he went to his friend. “I remember, that you told me you won’t run away from me and my friends.”

“You said there was monsters deeper into the woods, right? So never goed in there. Deeper in there, there will be inside it. And there will be Vims down on it, down deeper into the forest you will find New York (?) in the Shims of the It. (She uses a lot of her own made-up names that can make some stories rather confusing!). And the It will tell you you have to go deeper more into the woods, right? So I never run away from you, or not from my friends either.”

“You have to just stay with me, I’m a friend. And you have to be on my shoulder and back. You don’t want to fall down right?”

So he stepped on his shoulder again, and didn’t move.

“Good boy!” said Aladar. “So you stepped on my back now. Now you are with my friends and me too. Aha!” he said.

They were going deeper into the woods, until Aladar shot something. It was a knight, one of the knight, then Aladar said, “You told I won’t run away,” he said, “you won’t run away?”

They walked deeper and deeper, and the guard there told them not to go deeper into the woods, and not into Shims and not into Shins and not into Shims and not into Ships and not into Shims and not into night on (indecipherable) trip.

“What is that noise?” What is that noise said. “What is that sound coming from the window?”

Aladar said, to what is that noise said, “Shall we get very very deep into the woods, so you not supposed to go into the woods with me. What is that Ship? What is that Ship who are very terrified to hear what is that noise? Someone making that noise for?”

He said, “What is that noise? Why is Aladar’s friend... thing walking... what is that thing walking? What is that thing walking?” said Shim, terribly looking at the service from Aladar’s two places.

Aladar said, “I’m not like a Ship, I’m like Dorin(?),” he said. And Dorin said, “I’m his friend.”

Aladar said, “There is not so much of thingymajiggy.” And there was old pages and new pages again, and old pages. They were living inside one of the (indecipherable), and they were injured, inside one of the things. One of the Zips, and one of the Zipson. One of the Zipsoff was very very slim.

They were very on (indecipherable). And they was down into deeper into the forest, and they goed, clambered into, on Shim. And they were on one of the bad Shims (c.f. the Shim Davinoars that she explained about some time before – one of her invented creatures...). They said, “Go clamber down onto the Shim, right?” And they goed down.

“Would I move to the deeper forest?” And there were Shims packed into the deep forest. They clambered down into the deep forest. They clambered up and up into the deep well and slide down one of the Shims, then Aladar told him not to go by his self.

“Ssshh!” Aladar said Onn was very very off it. He goed on one of the plans, and the plans looked up and saw Aladar on as he clambered up deeper into the forest. They goed, “(Whispering) Ssssh! Aladar... (indecipherable phrase) today.”

“(Still whispering) Yes I know, I will be careful. (Another 45 seconds of indecipherable continuous whispering).”

(Indecipherable phrase in a high squeaky voice)

On ships, one of the ships were going on to off there, Kim’s. He travelled in. He travelled into the deep blue sea.

Aladar scampered deep into the deep forest. He was by his self and lonely. There was his friends! “Ah, I know where is it,” said Jen.

Chapter Four, Without This.

There was Zip, said “Where is my other friend Zip, too?.... Ah! I know,” said Zip. “I will just swim... I swim there.” And he dived. “Ah! I know where is that noise!” He scampered into the deep blue forest to find one of his friends. He scampered deeper into the forest to find his good friend.

“I remember! Seeing go,” Aladar said. “You pointing, I remember. You point out Corin to the deep forest, right? But he not going into the deep forest, right? (Whiny voice) You point to go inside, but I like to go with them. They were into the forest with you that morning. But your friend died. How can play with your friend?”

“He very big and strong, but I like that.”

“To be... my friend killed...”

“What?? Why???... I like him so much... fetch his doctor...”

“Doctor...”

“You can play with his skyship. And he’s very noisy today. You can’t play with him, you can’t play with him today.”

“You can’t play with him today, right? He’s very noisy today, and very seeming.”

“So I will take you to the bed”

“But why???”

“Because he’s very on... on it today. And he’s kind, because his mommy is very (indecipherable)”

“WHY????”

“Because he is Bin’s friend and you can’t play with him today because he wants his mama to hold his hand, so he won’t play with you today.”

“BUT I LIKE!!!!!!!!!”

And he said, “I want your friend.”

“I like that noises,” she said to Corin, carefully... Bin.

Aladar said, “(Whispers) Ssssh! That not right (indecipherable next few seconds).”

Human World, not Dino World, 2007-10-26**

Very interesting bit of backstory that she explained to me today. Corythosaurus hasn’t appeared in any of her stories in recent weeks, although he used to be a major character in previous months, so I asked her about him, and also about the new characters she’s introduced in recent weeks that keep reemerging in different stories (most of which I haven’t managed to record because she’s put an almost complete ban on me recording anything at all for a few weeks now, screaming at me to stop whenever she notices the recorder. The only reason I got this story was because she was so wrapped up in it and didn’t notice the recorder...)

So, her new main character, Corin, is apparently Corythosaurus in human form. She said all her characters have been turning from dinosaurs into human. Some have already completed the change but others are still in the process of turning. This has been going on for a few weeks now, and has coincided with her recording ban. Another new major character, Pip, which she introduced BEFORE having heard of Enid Blyton’s Five Find-Outers, that is such a major influence on her current stories, started life as a dinosaur but has also completely turned into a human now (she was SO pleased that one of the Find-Outers names is Pip, and he immediately became her favourite character). Aladar, her mainstay character, still appears in her stories, but as more of a background figure – he is apparently still in the process of turning from dinosaur to human and is still more dinosaur than human. When I asked her how the change took place, she said mysteriously, “by magic”. The other Find-Outers frequently appear in her latest stories as well, alongside Corin and Aladar, and also appear in this story (Fatty, Larry, Daisy and Bets, besides Pip).

TRANSCRIPTION NOW COMPLETE: Explanation of Context

This story is remarkable in how she pulls on many different elements and characters from books we've been reading together and weaves her own original new story with them all.

CHARACTERS

1. Corin, now a human, formerly Corythosaurus that appears in all her stories
   
2. Fatty, Larry, Pip, Bets, Daisy and Mr Goon from Enid Blyton's Five Find-Outers mystery series

Cameo appearances

1. Aladar, her ever present character
   
2. Beth, from Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree series
3. Peter and Jane, from the Ladybird early reader series
   

STORY IDEAS (My educated guess, she didn't say so directly)

1. A door between two worlds, idea from Narnia
2. A door through time that allows the children into Dino World, Usborne's Young Adventure series, A Dinosaur Adventure

COMPLETELY OWN IDEAS
The children looking for a mystery to solve and finding one caught between two worlds. Hiding from Mr Goon at the same time (he cannot enter Dino World though, I asked her for clarification... only the 5 can - Larry, Fatty, Bets, Pip and Daisy... not the others. The dinos also cannot come into their world.)

I think that's about it, but there's probably more I missed!

So let’s go in with Fatty, and Pip goes out.

And who was dressed up? Pip. Let’s go with Pip and Fatty.

The others too, go in to make the ice-cream. “WE’RE ALL READY!” said Corin, “Phew!”

“Tch!” said Larry, disgusted. “We are all doing” (cut off by) “SSSH!!” said Pip suddenly. “I looked, someone coming!” Pip hide. They all hide, also Pip. They went out to see what was it happening.

“WHAT noise is that??? What oh what? I will whack that noise.” So they whacked it.

“I WHACK and WHACK! That will be knocking ... for the old grandma.”

“(Wailing) Don’t say no more, no say no more, oh don’t say no more, oh oh....(trails off)”

But... but.... “(Strangled voice) Mama...”

No one could go by noon.

“It is expection... a expection... expection is now going to be a in... it’s Dino World...” (expection=expectation, her mispronunciation)

“DINO WORLD????” said Corin. “We are humans! This not Dino World, this human world!”

“It’s tomorrow, this human world. Dinosaur! Dino World...”

“Human world!”

“Dino world!”

“Human world!”

“Don’t fight!” said Corin, ignoring it. The other two stopped.... fighting.

“What?”

“I’m looking at something terrible,” said Corin. “The other two find.... what???” said Corin.

Said Aladar, “What are you doing??”

“You woke me up,” said his mommy.

Aladar said, “Okay.... Fatty! Don’t do that!!! He pulling at your leg, Larry. Don’t. Stop him doing that!”

Larry stopped him. “Don’t do that, pull at my leg.”

“Don’t pull at my leg, Larry. Don’t pull at my leg now,” said Fatty.

“Now stop you two!” said Corin. “What’s all the trouble.”

(Silence of a several seconds). Corin didn’t know there was Hoomps around. In their expection, he didn’t know (increasingly whiny tone) there were Hoomps around! But no! Hoomps around!

“(Switches to jaunty singsong tone) He didn’t know there was Hoomps. He didn’t know there was Hoomps. He didn’t know there was Hoomps. He didn’t know there was Hoomps. He didn’t know there was Hoomps. (Soft singsong throughout). “

“I will stop there. I stop there.”

“Stop that now! No more! I still stop you, too! Stop you two!” said Larry. “Stop you! Act right!” said Larry. “Don’t pull at my leg.” The other two STOPPED.

He listened.... “Wow! WOW, WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“Stop that!” said Corin.

“Corin say that,” the other ones “sssh” did... shout at Toom. Toom was scared, he runned then like.. like.. he’s human now! So he stopped and others... gone already. He did now RUN TO THE OTHERS. “CORIN’S COMING!!” They all hid.

Corin seed them. Then went out from his bush.

“It’s alright! It’s just Corin. Corin have come to rescue us. Come to rescue us.”

(Silence for a several seconds). “(Jaunty singsong tone) He’s come to rescue, he has come to rescue us.”

(To herself. That’s all mine. I stopped there, in orange.)

Corin didn’t know there was Hoomps on in that place, so he dared to find that out. He and Larry put the eye out from his dish and CATCH IT UP! Quickly as they can the others catch it up with T-Rex.

They be dead. “Ssshh! Ssshh! Ssh! Ssh!” Aladar and Corin died already, should not end... Corin lived on the world when the dinosaurs died, from east to north.

Much porridge came, and they eaten some... and humans came, and dinosaurs died.

To me:THE DINOSAURS ALREADY DIED!!!! Now the humans came! (Me: Ok..)

Still to me: Now the Find-Outers came. (Me: Very nice.)

Corin already died. Larry appeared. Pip. Kim. Someone is him.

“OH! Corin is in.” Corin wasn’t there..

“CORICH, where’s Corin gone? I want... have expection on him,” said Larry. “Where is he?”

“He is just in the corner there, writing a newspaper under his desk. You can go and speak to him if you want. But don’t get into trouble by Mr Goon! Don’t!”

“He is not a one to get into trouble by HIM.”

“Pip get into trouble.”

“No, don’t get into trouble! He said that. He was prove that Larry was on a mystery or something. He was coming after him.”

“Dear Poom, promise not he will be sick.”

“Oh, he’s sick!” said Corin.

Said Larry, on the morning, “He’s sick. We’d better go and see him.”

“NO! NO!!! We’ll get sick too.” So Larry didn’t do that.

“LARRY!! LARRY!!” Larry was gone already! “Where he have gone? Where he have... gone?? Daisy... Fatty... or mommy...”

“Pip then said ‘I don’t know!’ Pip must have gone, Pip is not THERE. Here’s a fact.... see? That big foot over there? That must be Pip. THAT Pip!!!” said Fatty.

“They were always by there,” said Bets. Bets found a clue. She picked that clue up. She said, “What clue is it? This is it, Fatty.”

Fatty said, “Oh, this clue that you have got? That... I don’t know!”

“Who then I?” said Pip.

“Where is Pip’s voice?”

“Pip?.... Pip is close.”

“Poom!”

“Poom????... What’s Poom?”

“It’s the exact same thing.” And he gets it, Pip. “Poom,” said Pip.

“Sssshh!! PIP!” said Larry. “I’m here.”

“Ssh! Ssssshhh, Pip” said Fatty suddenly. “I hear someone coming already.” They all hid behind the bush. And the Find-Outers “Ssshh! Mr Goon is coming.” And they sit there, deep deep in the lake where the bush came. The bush came. When they got the bush they hid behind it.

“Oh, that’s ok, he wouldn’t spot us if we do that.”

“He didn’t spot us... I’d run, following the same path.”

“He didn’t! Yippee!”

“It has barely poured...”

Suddenly, a foot goed in the water. They went up to see what was it... it was a giant! They went out and find very high, very very high indeed. No forest, and nothing was THERE.

“Kettlefoot.”

“Can you don’t poke?.... the giant will go far. Yippee, the giant’s bone broke.”

“Ohhh... oh oh oh oh oh!”

“Oh!” said Corin. “The giant’s leg broke!”

“Yippee! We can have it.” They put it on their hand and seed what was it. It was like a leg... but it was REALLY a leg! Nothing could step in there. It broke two parts already.

(To herself: I will read this.)

Corin knew... Fatty leapt out from that. “Fatty, DON’T GO!” said Pip. “Who want you?”

“OH!” said Fatty.

“But Fatty don’t want me.” So he stepped back in the water, deep... deep... hoping Mr Goon wouldn’t come again. Mr Goon didn’t come.

Said Corin, straight at Fatty, “In the morning we got a listener. It’s when the gent, he was stepping, and someone was there (breaks into a guffaw)... it was Fatty! Who was that? Always that Fatty pokes me, did expect also... I wonder... the other’s seen (breaks into very loud laugh)”

“Ssshh!!” said Larry. Said Fatty to Larry, “Don’t laugh! He will hear you, coming. He will look around for you if you laugh.” Fatty only laughed. He took his coat out from there, so the Find-outers didn’t know where was he.

“So.. before he comes,” said Corin.

“No,” said Fatty. “No,” said Fatty to Larry.

Bets, with such a little nudge, “(Exclamation sound).... is that a gnome?”

“Yes, that’s a gnome... you’r correct! Sssh!”

“Hey Larry, hey Larry, Larry, Larry! Lar-ry! Larry!! Larrrrry!!... Larry, Larry! Larry!! (ascending tone) Larry! Larry! Larry!” said Fatty.

“What?” said Larry. “I’m on it.”

“Give Hermagus(?) a nudge, and he will wake up at the moment.” Then Corin will make the nudge. It stretched, Corin with a nudge, he didn’t woke up. “He’s dead or something!” said Corin, said Pip.

“So much...” said Corin. He didn’t wake up. “Why,” he said, “phew... don’t mind your foot”

“How? How... have he gone to the Interstate without clothes, and dead. How??? Couldn’t be too... he must have gone away far-er... far from there. He must. He must have gone far. Very far, to be... and be,” said Larry, touched Corin with a nudge at his paws. Corin didn’t woke up either.

“What shall I do?” said Fatty in that morning. “I wouldn’t see Pip again.” Pip and Bets went out in their own house and said, “Goodbye!!!” They sleeped.

“OHHHH!” said Larry. “We are wouldn’t sees them again! We wouldn’t! We wouldn’t! We wouldn’t! We wouldn’t!”

“We still got Fatty here,” said Keenup(?). “Bets... why are you still here??”

“At home.. I just woke up!” said Bets. “I was here. And I didn’t know that you too was here standing THERE.”

“The others was gone to bed then... Fatty, Daisy, that.”

“Who is... Daisy?”

“You mean she didn’t join it?”

“Did she?”

“No!”

Daisy come, then they be all together again. But Pip was still sleeping. Fatty just went inside and gave Pip a little nudge. He WAKED UP. “What you doing here?”

So Fatty pointing, he didn’t say anything. Just pointed. “Sssh!... There,” said Fatty. “The nice place with the night, they hide there. And the others found them, locked in there.”

They didn’t. The others teed(?) to the window and said, “Be quiet! The others hid in there.” And they didn’t go out either, or swim in. In there. Soon. They didn’t do that either.

“Ohh,” said Corin. “Can we get out? It’s very dusty here.”

“No! Let that noise come nearer.” The noise come, goed nearer, and didn’t know... it went away, he died.

“(Silly singsong tone) Yippee! It died! It died, it died, it died, it died, na na naa!” said Fatty.

“No, it just had eaten lunch. He’ll wake up.”

“NO!! NO!!!” said Jane.

“Ssssh Jane, ssssh... sssh. If you say that he will wake up, and he wouldn’t go by noon.”

Corin didn’t know there was Hoomp around. Beth came with a little nudge there, said “All these are good.” She gave them a nudge, and she looked out and said, “Garden of our yard....”. So she HID with the others too. Other three.

“Don’t!” said Daisy, “What Jane?”

“I thought you will give him a little nudge..”

“No, didn’t. Peter!” Peter opened his eyes..

“Wake him. Wake him up! Wake him... wake him up.......... Up! WAKE HIM UP!!! Come on, wake him up.” Corin stand there again, doing nothing. He couldn’t wake him up.

“I... I didn’t know you was here. Jane, can you stop?”

“I thought we were going to that...”

“(Yawning) No I’m not... when the others go there, I’ll do that.” Opened... they was opened... and the others all... and they all get in the world there... Sharp thing, they didn’t went in there.

“Is it a choon?... It’s a CHOON! Yes!”

“What is it?”

“A choon for dinosaurs to walk in, not for humans.” They didn’t step in there. They locked it, and he didn’t knocked. They tried to go through the window, and they found them in own world.

“Sssh!” said Larry, nudging. “We’re in, caught in middle.” Now they went in the hole, “Oh no..”

They didn’t. Fatty went in his own world. And Larry did, too. And the dinosaurs died, and the humans didn’t die. And the Hoomps didn’t die. And the Vamps didn’t die, and the Hooms didn’t die. And the Choons didn’t die, and the Pams and the Goons.

“I hope we got mystery,” said Bets.

“No, we don’t!” said Fatty, in morning. “You got some Hoomps around you... sleep for now.”

Bets sleeped with Pip that morning. They will warn you, keeping an eye on Mr Goon. Is he away. So that day, the holidays came, and they went out to find a mystery. And thent hey found the mystery after all. “I hope Mr Goon wouldn’t get it,” said Larry.

“I hope he wouldn’t, he wouldn’t either do that.”

“If he didn’t get into trouble. I...”

“Bye, bye!”

Fatty opened the telescope to see who was in trouble. Him. The others be, leapt out from Pip, and scuttled off. Will be please him, Mr Goon. Until from him, he said “Pester... him.”

They said, “Thanks.”

“Keep a eye on those kids. They will come around this pit before we catch them.” He didn’t catch them. He didn’t know there were Choons around, and all they catch them. Then he did. He careful of this new creature. Then, oops... and they carried him in, and they put him in the house and there stayed for a long long long time.

“He will go on the run... around.”

“(Sings softly) Cold... chimney... if you don’t want to be the left...”

“No, don’t sing that,” said Corin, said Larry. He give Fatty a little nudge at the back of his corner.

“Don’t, it’s dark... night. And we will run away, run run away. Very, very dangerous.” The others run away, in fact they cried. And very ugly, very scary. And the others runned and runned. What terror. They fight with the others in there, and then they crashed forward, Fatty. Fatty lured, going on the deep side, said Bets.

“You know I would have that.”

“No, I wouldn’t.”

“Because you are the hero.”

“What??? Hero?”

“You are a hero.”

“It’s something like a disguise, just for fun. I normally used to have that. I’ll be in my home now. Now I send it to carry doubt that wants it, through my disguise, fool them. I normally have it, yesterday.”

And they had it, opening some shirts. “Something in here!”

“Oh, what?”

(Stops here...)