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
- Corin, now a human, formerly Corythosaurus that appears in all her stories
- Fatty, Larry, Pip, Bets, Daisy and Mr Goon from Enid Blyton's Five Find-Outers mystery series
- Aladar, her ever present character
- Beth, from Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree series
- Peter and Jane, from the Ladybird early reader series
STORY IDEAS (My educated guess, she didn't say so directly)
- A door between two worlds, idea from Narnia
- A door through time that allows the children into Dino World, Usborne's Young Adventure series, A Dinosaur Adventure
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...)
2 comments:
A great one! The dialogue keeps getting more and more realistic - I really can't understand how she keeps so many characters alive in her head (or dead, as the case may be ;)). The switching between worlds was cool, and I loved the use of the word "nudge" a lot - clearly a current favorite!
Just to answer your question on how she keeps so many characters in her head... B really doesn't have the phenomenal memory typically associated with gifted kids (for trivial pursuit type factoids), but she obviously does have a phenomenal memory for her own characters and what's going on in her own stories (besides the few topics that really catch her imagination, such as dinosaurs...)
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