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Tall Tales About Home

t was 5AM, when I get up every school day. I was walking out of my room when I heard a noise that sounded like someone walking around the house. I ran back into my room and shut the door, my pulse roaring in my ears.
After I had calmed down a bit, I slowly opened the door to reveal two pairs of big beady eyes and the face looked like …
“A raccoon! ” I exclaimed. “ But why are there raccoons in my house?” I thought for a minute. “ Are you my cats?”
One of the raccoons looked at me with sad eyes and I knew, those were my cats.
“But there are only two of you! Where’s the other one?”
Then I saw her, a regular cat, walking up to me. She let a small “meow” out and I put a finger to my lips.
“ Shhhh!”
I tip-toed over to my dad, who was asleep on the couch and noticed he was a bear!
I flicked my finger and my dad was himself again, and I flicked my finger again and my “raccoons” were my cats again. I laughed.
“If you were changed into animals, I can only imagine what my sister looks like!” I told my cats.

-- Nicole

One day when I came home from school, I went up to my room. I slipped of my shoes and through them on them on the floor. What a mess I thought. There where clothes all over the place, scattered on the ground. Every possible surface was covered with junk. My closet was filled with a confusion of stuff I shoved in there when I ‘tidied’ my room. Oh well I’ll clean it tomorrow. That’s what I always say, I know. I left my room to go downstairs to grab a snack.
When I got back I couldn’t believe my eyes. There were pigs, yes pigs, in my room. I’ve heard the expression your room is a pigsty, but I mean come on my room isn’t really that messy ok it is. What am I going to do with these pigs , I thought. If mom sees them she’ll absolutely freak. All of a sudden I got an idea. If I clean my room maybe the pigs will go away. So I clean my room and sure enough the pigs went away, to where I don’t know but as long as there out of my room I’m happy. I plopped down on my bed and let out a sigh of relief. It’s nice to have a clean room and trust me my room will never be that messy again.

-- Margaret

One hot summer day, I was walking my dog, Shaggy outside in my front yard, and I decided that he needed more exercise, so I started walking him down the street and around the block. All of a sudden, we came upon a group of gangsta cats. They were mean to all of the animals on the street, so we tried to ignore them as we walked by them. They said to us… “ Hey you! Punks why are you guys crossing my sidewalk?! It’s ours! Get off now, or we will meow at you till you leave.”

I said “ why do you guys have to be so mean? Why can’t we all be a big happy family?”

“Well I don’t think that that’s a good idea to back sass me like that! Well then tata to you!"

“ FINE! We better not see you ever again on our sidewalk!” so we kept on walking on our way.

Then we came upon two giant goats, they were running and playing. Then they started dancing! It was so weird that I couldn’t believe it! We asked them what they were doing and then all of a sudden they vanished! Oh my gosh that was incredible! When we finally got home, I told my mom everything that happened and she didn’t believe it one bit! I was very mad at her. I will never forget what happened on that hot summer day. That’s why I don’t walk my dog out of my front yard anymore.

-- Allison G.

One day I was home alone when something weird happened. I saw a Turtle in my house walking towards me. It looked like it had been from the game Super Mario Bros. “Why is a koopa in my house?” I said. Before there was time to think, I jumped on the turtle. All that was left of him was his shell. I started to run to the shell I grabbed it and tossed it outside. That is why I pulled my muscle in my arm.

-- Alec

One day a long time ago, a girl named Kira went to a friend's house. She didn’t expect this to happen. She was changing in the bathroom when her pants walked to the toilet and went down. Kira ran downstairs to get it out of the pipes, but they already were in the ocean. She snuck out of the house, drove Mrs.K’s car to buy a submarine with Jessica’s money. She went down to the Pacific Ocean and went in the submarine down to the very bottom and fished it out with a knife. Just as she is getting back in the car 17 police cars start chasing her. She drives away and off a ski jump. The cars didn’t chase her anymore. However one hobo started chasing her so she gave him the car and bungee jumped off a bridge and went back home. She snuck back in the house. However she left the car with a hobo and 20,000 dollars with a guy. When she got back she wanted to make popcorn, but started a fire. Then they had to run away forever.

-- Kira

One day I had gone for a bike ride down my street. I descended the hill, then I stopped. All of a sudden a little squirrel raced out in front of me from the woods. I thought it just wanted to cross the street, but it just stood there. Then it waved to me. I waved back. Then it got really cold and a polar bear walked out of the same opening in the trees. Then it got warm and a toucan flew towards the road from the same direction. I got off my bike and leaned it up against the tree. When I leaned my bike up against the tree the tree disappeared. Something weird was going on. I walked through the trees and I found a sack lying on the ground. Out of the bag popped a little cloud. When I realized what was going on, I grabbed the bag and raced up the hill totally forgetting about my bike. To this day I still control the weather.

-- Jessica

One day on my birthday, it was a normal type of day. When it came time for my small family party, I started to get extremely hungry. I couldn’t wait till we ate. When we did eat, I ate everything that was out there. The problem was, I was still super hungry, and couldn’t control myself. Then I went to the fridge, and ate every single thing in there. I was still felling empty and having hunger pangs. My hunger kept growing until I thought I would faint. I said “I have got to go get something to eat” to my parents. I went outside and went to the grocery store.
I bought the whole stock of everything they had and then ate it all in less than fifteen minutes. When I had eaten it all, I felt a little less hungry. I hadn’t gained an ounce of weight. So next I went to the pop Tart factory and ate every single pop tart they had. When I had finished, I then ate all the remaining dough and delicious filling. I was starting to get slightly full, so I went back home and ate my birthday cake. After eating the frosty goodness of the cake, I finally felt. Then I slept all night and very far into the morning. When I woke up, I told my mom how much I ate, all she said was “Well, you are a growing boy”. My hunger had finally gone away.

-- Greg

I once was climbing a very large tree then half way up and elephant started to chase me. It was so big that I thought that it kept growing and growing. The higher that I got the warmer that it would get. Then all of a sudden it got colder and colder. I was looking around and I found myself in heaven. I saw God and he told me to go right and keep running. He said that I would find myself at a giant ladder and he told me to climb it. The farther that I got the more animals started to chase me. Some of them of course were faster than the other. I got to a waterfall that kept going down and down. If I fell I would be dead half way down. All of a sudden an angel came and picked me up and we flew over it. Then the angel just dropped me. The animals had to go around to a shallow place and cross. It didn’t take them very long and yet they were right behind me. This told me I had to run faster and that I couldn’t waste time. I ran for another 30 minutes straight and then I came to a waffle house. I looked at my watch and I was very hungry because I hadn’t had lunch. I was very mad that I couldn’t get any. So, I think you can tell that I kept running. I could see the ladder coming up. When I got to the ladder I started to climb. The animals grew human legs and started to climb. I got to the top and I was at the top. So were the animals and then they were back to normal. I was getting very hot and to get back to the ladder I would have to go by the angry animals so I jumped off the side and I found my self in my bed. I was in my PJs too. Well all I knew was that I was home. But there was only one problem. I had animal posters all over my wall and they were staring at me.

-- Julia


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Tall Tales About School

After my morning work I got settled in my chair at my desk. I listened to Mr. Meunier. It was the day of picking Quidditch names! Mr. Meunier wrote all the names that the class suggested all on the chalkboard, and we were told 5 votes for each kid in the class. We all put our heads down on our desks. NO PEEKING! There were 48 names on the board. Hmmmm…. There was Toxic Rush (that name we chose for our Quidditch name.), Ninjas, Toxic Ninjas, Mist, Nightmares, and so many more! He called out Ninjas? I didn’t know who raised their hands because I had my head down, but I know I didn’t. Then I started hearing all of these strange noises! I know it was wrong and we weren’t supposed to but I put up my head and I looked around. There were people all over the classroom, dressed in all black, masks, gloves, and exedra. They were making weird noises like “hauula, huaaa, ozona, and oooya.” YAH, every time they moved to touched something. MY CLASS MATES HAD TURNED INTO NINJAS! When we were done ninjas only had two votes so Mr. Meunier erased the word Ninjas off of the board with the chalkboard eraser. POP! POP! POP! All the people that had raised their hands for Ninjas had become their normal selves again. That was really weird because Mr. Meunier didn’t say anything. I think I was seeing things! What had come over me? If Mr. Meunier had ever seen that he would have been going nuts! He would have been wondering why the kids were Ninjas. Plus all the boys in my class would have gotten up, and started giggling and laughing along with the Ninjas. Maybe even copying them or maybe they didn’t see them at all. This was really weird. I don’t think I would want to be anywhere near ninjas because they’re annoying!

- Chelsea

It was a normal day for me and my friends. Just another school day. We had all our morning classes and we were heading to lunch. It was hotdogs for lunch. I wasn’t buying and everyone else was. I sat down and waited for my friends. When they came we started eating. It was disgusting. They were eating like animals. I looked away in disgust. But when I looked back they were growing! They had turned into monsters! I knew what was happening. It had happened before. They were turning into giant ompa - lompas! I knew what and where the antidote was. Chocolate. I ran out of the cafeteria and down the hall towards Mrs. Rice’s room where I knew she kept her secret stash of chocolate. When I got into her room Greg, who had been turned into a giant ompa-lompa was chasing me. I went into the mini-fridge and grabbed a Hershey’s chocolate bar out of the humongous pile. Then, I threw it into Greg’s mouth and he tuned back to normal. With a sigh of relief I asked him to help me with everyone else and he did. The everything was back to normal.

-- Mike

I was walking down to the art room at school. I was late for school and my class mates were already down there. I was looking at the drawings of endangered species on the walls on my way down. I saw this great picture of an elephant. I got closer to get a better look, and the elephant came to life and looked down right at me! It started to chase me. While I was running for my life I tried to make conversation. “What’s your name,” I asked. “Vrr,” was his replied. “I think I will name you Willy,” I said. I stopped running and the elephant put on his breaks and almost ran me over. i searched in my pockets and found a peanut! I fed it to him and he went right back into the picture. Later I got in trouble for having a peanut in a peanut free school.

-- Bri W.

It was early in the morning when I was getting ready for school when I felt something was wrong. I couldn’t quite figure out what it was, but I tried to as I made my way down to the bus. As the bus pulled up I saw it was the biggest, most yellow vehicle ever. Our principal was sitting in the driver seat, and he called to me to get on. The door of the bus slowly opened, and I walked up the hundreds of stairs. As I walked to the back of the bus I stepped on old, slimy fish and piles of garbage. When I reached the back, the Kindergarteners sitting there told me that I had to go to the front of the bus with the rest of the sixth graders. So, I started to make my way back to the front of the bus, but before I could reach it the bus began to the fly through the air. The bus jerked this way and that. Each time the bus made a sudden movement, the kids were flung left to right and up and down. We finally landed in a large, open field, and before us was an enormous castle with a sign in front that read: W.E. Norris School. The rest of my day at school was as crazy as my bus ride.

-- Riley G.

This is a tall tale about a pig. One day I was walking down the hall and then I saw a flying pig. I got on its back. Then before I knew it I was slicing threw the air outside. And then the wings on the pig disappeared. I was falling threw thin air and I was falling like 20 miles per hours towards the ground. Then right before I hit the ground I appeared back at school in Mr. Hodgson's room. He said, stop falling asleep, and I said, sorry I wont do it again. Then I looked out the window and I saw the pig that was in my dreams but then I started to hear voices and it sounded like Mr. Hodgson. Suddenly I woke up and my head was on my sleeves. I lifted my head and then he said, stop day dreaming. I said, ok sorry, and then it was the end of the day of school. I went home and slept.
The end …..

-Cody

One day I was going out for recess. My friends were already out for recess because I told them I needed to go to the library. When I got my jacket out of my locker, I went down to the library. No one was there which was strange.

I called, “Mrs. Mari?” No answer. Again I called, “Mrs. Mari?” all of a sudden I heard a “meow” coming from behind Mrs. Mari’s desk. “Hello?” I said. “Meow.” I looked behind Mrs. Mari’s desk and I saw a cute little kitten. I picked up the little kitten and held it in my palm. I asked the kitten where the Pyramid books are and the kitten pointed her claw to the “non fiction” section.

“Thank you” I said.

When I was about to leave the kitten just sat there on the desk and I felt bad because kittens aren’t allowed in school. I took the kitten with me and put in my backpack and played with it all night long. The next morning I had library and Mrs. Mari was there. Weird..!

-- Brianna C.

I was just walking down the hallway and I went to my locker. When I opened my locker there was this huge gigantic elephant in my locker. I began to think about why this elephant was in my locker. I closed my locker quickly. I opened it back up. Oh no a tiger! This time I closed it for good. I opened it this last time there was absolutely nothing in my locker. I thought I was just dreaming but I know I saw two animals a tiger, and an elephant. I opened it back up there was the elephant again. I left my locker open to see if this strange animal would come out. All the sudden it came out and ran out the school door. I wondered for the rest of the day why those two animals were even in our school, plus in my locker. That was a very, strange day for me!!!!!!

-- Kelsey

It was a Thursday! Taco Day at school and I was ready to meet up with my friends so we could sit together. We went into the cafeteria and saw that the tacos had come alive and had already eaten one of the lunch ladies. Everybody was running in panic out of the building. I wasn’t doing well in math class and I knew defeating these giant tacos would bring up my grade, because tacos are my math teacher's favorite food. So I chased after the tacos up and down the stairs, through the gym, and out on the playground. I got together with some of my soccer buddies and we kicked soccer balls at the tacos. It only broke through the shell. So I got together with some of my softball buddies and we hit softballs at the tacos and it smashed all the tacos. My math grade did go up and my friends and I all got medals for beating the tacos. Though I really don’t think I ever want to eat a taco ever, ever, ever, ever again!

-- Anna


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Tall Tales About Sports


I had a soccer game coming up, and we are playing the Hungry Bulls. So the next day my team and I were at the field waiting. All of a sudden we see a huge trailer and on the side of it, it says the hungry bulls. So we figured it must be the other team. I heard one of my teammates say they must be big kids (which was mean). Once the other team got out of the trailer we noticed that they were all bulls, not kids, so we thought that they must not be the team. Then we all realized that they all had tee-shirts that say the Hungry Bulls on them. So we all laughed, thinking it was a joke but then the referee called captains and so I walked up and also one of the bulls walked up. I was confused but the ref didn’t say anything. So the game begun. It was quite weird to be playing against bulls in soccer. I scored a goal and the bulls got so mad that they all turned into kids. We realized when they are mad they turn into kids so we kept them all mad. At the end of the game it was 56 to 4 and we won. So the kids/bulls got in the trailer. So my team all went home as winners.
-- Katrina

Once upon a time I was playing soccer and I was against a team called Real Madrid. I was on a team called Barcelona and it was a good game so far, but then I realized I was in a video game and I was also on my favorite soccer team. I was playing right midfield and I was running the Ronaldiniho passed it to me then all of the sudden I got tripped in the goalie box and it was a penalty shot. I was getting ready to take my shot. I was ready to shoot so I ran towards the soccer ball and shot it. The ball skimmed towards the goalies hands in the upper 90 corner, and went in. And the crowed went wild. After I scored, all my teammates were jumping on me as a celebration, like in a real soccer game. I was so happy my family was also watching me and I was on my favorite soccer player's team. That was the best moment of my life, and we won the game.
-- DJ


It was 1 hour before our championship game vs. Barcelona in outdoor soccer. My mother gave me a vitamin water to drink will I was sitting around so I would not get a headache at the end of the game. I drank the dragon fruit kind that David Beckham sponsors. I finished it and grabbed another one for the game and of we went to Gateway Regional High School in Huntington, MA. We arrived and we ended up playing in the field behind the Elementary school were we lost to Manchester United in the Semi- Finals in a shootout.
We started the game and I started to play like David Beckham. It was a tough game but they started to attack the goal with Ronaldinho leading the way but I stole it and ran toward there goal and I was about to shoot and Ronaldinho fouled me and gave me a penalty shot and he got a yellow card. I scored into the top left hand corner and Jeremy chipped it and I bicycle kicked it into the bottom right corner. We won the game and I won MVP. That is the tall tale of Kyle. -- Kyle B.


One day I was playing a pick up basket ball game when I started to feel weird., I had grown 20 feet. I only needed to take one step down the court to put it in the basket. I could also slam dunk a three.
That night I had to sleep in the school gym, because I was so long. The next day when I woke up there were two scientists examining me. They had all these test tubes. I asked them what they were doing, but they didn’t answer me. So I went back to sleep. When I woke back up a bunch of people with cameras were a round me. After they all left the scientist came back. I asked what they were doing again, this time they answered me They said they were trying to find out why I grew so tall, that they would need to run some tests, I said o. they next day they more people with more cameras came back. They started to call me names like giant or tall freak. It started to get to me after awhile. After an hour or to most of the people had gone. Once the last person left I started to fell weird again, I had shrunk back to size. That was my wacky weekend.

-- Kyle S.


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Tall Tales About Travel

One day my family and I went to New York City for a little vacation. We were driving on a traffic jammed road when it started to rain big fat elephants and tigers! One elephant landed on the roof of my car and then meowed like a helpless cat stuck in a fifty-foot tall tree in the middle of nowhere. Then a tiger fell on another car and said “I think this is a groovy pad! Time for the disco!” Then he started to do the disco to the song who let the Dogs out, which if I may say so has one of the worst rhythms that I have ever heard in my life. My family and I got out of our car and heard a noise. All of a sudden a tornado the size of a paperclip swept me off my feet. When I landed in the middle of China! I was scared but I was also happy because I was a little hungry and I love Chinese food. Then there was a TV stand nearby. I put on some cartoons and enjoyed my California rolls happily. All of a sudden a noise as loud as a plane crashing in the middle of the busiest place in the world made me jump so high that I landed back in New York City. When I got there I was pretty bored so I did the disco with the crazy Tiger.

-- Noelle

I was in Greece and it was so hot outside, people were able to put an egg on the sidewalk for a nice breakfast. I was walking on the sidewalk that day and suddenly cars stopped. Then I couldn’t move. I looked down and saw my shoes melted to the ground. Some parts of the road were on fire. I was in trouble. I slipped my shoes off but stayed on them. I then remembered my house was shaded so I would be safe there. So I jumped over a fence and started running through buildings and under trees finally all I had to do was cross one small road. I backed up then ran and jumped… I made it!

-- Yiannis

One day I was on my way to Florida in a plane. It was really warm out that day. As we were flying I noticed that I had sprouted wings. I thought to myself wow this is really weird. Maybe I was dreaming. Then another plane started coming at us. The plane was out of control. I broke open the window and used my wings to fly over to the plan. I grabbed onto the wing of the plan and spun it over my head. I sent it crashing into a mountain of foam so no one got hurt. Everyone started cheering yeaaaaa!!!! I had saved the day. When the plane finally landed we got off and everyone went to the beach.

-- Laura


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Tall Tales About Recreation

One day I went to a theme park. Then I wanted to go on my first roller coaster ride, I was 8 years old. My best friend had to go on with me. I thought it would be a great thing to try. My friend and I took our seats. Then the coaster started to move. The track started to transform. It went so fast I probably couldn’t even explain. Then we zoomed up to a huge drop. The coaster jerked to a stop. We sat there for about 3 minutes waiting to see what would happen next. We were resting on nothing but a metal track, I looked down. I saw little dots for people and squares for buildings. Then zoom! We went down the drop, my eyes started to pour out a river in stead of just blurring. It happened again, and again. It happened again. We went up a even bigger drop. Then we came catapulting down back to the earth. We went on a really sharp turn ,again, again ,and again. The coaster started to go to the end. I could see all the anxious people waiting to go on next. Of course it was so fun. Then I went on again.
-- Sarah M.

One time my friend Kara and I went on a rollercoaster. The rollercoaster was 164,790 feet tall. The carts that you sat in were as big as the Pacific Ocean. When we sat in the cart there was a man in front of us with a huge afro as big as a elephant. The man turned around and flew out of seat like really flew in the air like a hawk gliding in the air, the rollercoaster started to go and the man flew back into his seat. The rollercoaster was going as slow as a snail must likely slower, up a huge hill as tall as Mt. Everest. We got to the top and I looked down to see how steep the hill was going to be it was really steep! We started going down the steep hill. We were going about 4,932,567 miles per hour. We were starting to slow down and all the sudden I noticed that we were flying in the air the man with the afro who could fly was beneath the cart and flying us in the air! Kara and I had to do something we didn’t know where this guy was going to fly us. Kara and I thought we both jumped out of the flying cart and landed in another cart still on the tracks of the ride. At the end of the ride we got off and saw a giant snail. We just walked away and thought we have had enough adventure for one day.

--Casey

One day, my dad and I went down to the gulf to fish in the morning. He was throwing in the line and reeling in the fly. When he was reeling it in, once again, he lost it in the water. He almost jumped in to get it but before he did we saw with amazement 100 sharks in the water. They were all swimming around a little guppy fish. I didn’t want anything to happen so I jumped in and started wrestling the sharks until only one remained. He went left and I went right. Finally, it dove and I jumped out of the way and kicked him in the jaw. It swam away frightened from my attack. Then a giant jellyfish swam over and started zapping the water around me. I then took a magic gummy bear out of my pocket and ate it. It turned my fist giant and I wound back and went forward with my fist and hit him right smack in the forehead. He jumped back surprised from my action. He too swam away from surrender. I got the guppy fish, who by now was very frightened. I swam up and got to the shore. I went over to a near by bucket and filled it with water and put the guppy in it. After that my dad and I kept on fishing.

-- Christie

It was April 18, I was 5 (almost 6) and it was my first day of horseback riding, it was one of those 1 time thing to see how I liked it. I was prepared! I knew everything. So when we started, we walked. Then we started to trot. Then after a while, she said we could canter. I loved to canter. It was amazing! Then she set up a jump that was 9 feet tall! She said she knew I could do it. So I went around the ring one time, and jumped. It felt like I was flying. Then I looked down, we were flying. We flew to the beach. Then as soon as I touched the sand, it turned to ice. My horse flew up 10 feet, and waited, like he expected me to fly. To prove I could, my horse nudged me. I started to slide towards the edge. I screamed as I fell. I covered my face expecting to feel water at any moment. When I didn’t, I peered out of my fingers, and saw a fish staring up at me. I giggled. He just sat there looking up at me. I laughed as I realized that I was flying.

-- Bryanna K.


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