BLOWN BY THE WIND!
This story was completed by 5th Class, D7ET as part of their Pushkin project for 2008. A professional illustrator gave us some valuable lessons on storyboarding and drawing characters consistently, but all of the drawings you see here were rendered by the 25 children in the class.
A man and his son took a trip to the zoo
The day was quite windy, but the sky was still blue.
The boy carried a brolly and he wouldn’t let go
His dad and himself pulled it to and fro
Til a great gust of wind blew big and wild
It was all Dad could do to hold onto the child
Losing his brolly made the lad quite upset
He needed it badly; the day had got wet.
When it landed elsewhere, it caused quite a commotion
Where orang-utan Tim got an odd notion
If he threw out a tyre at the end of a rope,
His dream of escape might have some hope.
He pulled in his line and soon had it out
But his comrades soon grabbed it to monkey about
It didn’t take long for them to lose interest
It was tossed in the bin with the trash and the rest
Now Tim kept it well hidden from sight
And escaped over water later that night
He floated to freedom and sailed right away
And soon got to witness nature’s humans at play
Some creatures yawned in their cages all day
While others hopped, leapt and skipped the night away.
He tried to free small men from a glass box
He gave their square prison a few sharp knocks
For his efforts, poor Tim was kicked in the rear
Then attacked with a blade when he sat in a chair
After that, Tim once again took to the skies
From up there, the world looked much smaller in size.
He faced fierce attacks from a great metal bird
Being hit by white missiles he found quite absurd
The natives he passed were hostile and fierce
While the smoky white clouds filled Tim’s eyes with tears
Tim’s bid for freedom had been a big flop
When he saw the zoo signboard, he said: “Here’s my stop.”
He saw he was home and he quickly let go
And dropped like a stone to the pastures below.
Within ten seconds, he was back in his pound
And he woke the next morning, home safe and sound
The keeper was shocked that the cage-door was shut
Yet Tim had managed to get a complete new hair-cut.
