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It's dancetomato's nephew's birthday on Sat. (really yesterday, but we're celebrating Sat.) and we got him fingerpuppets. Now, said nephew is an interesting child. Loves musicals, loves acting and singing and can basically memorize any song's lyrics upon hearing it once or twice. He has a fingerpuppet theater and it came with several puppets and the story "Puss in Boots." The only thing he will act out with the puppets is "Puss in Boots" because he's very...determined about acting out ONLY the stories that go with the theater. So I wrote a story/play to go with the puppets (a unicorn, a fairy, a dragon and a wizard).

I'm going to share because it's the only thing I've written in months.

This is that story/play. Please remember I wrote this for a SIX year old.



The Unicorn

Once upon a time in the land of Nod, there was a kind and beautiful Princess named Erin. Princess Erin was loved by everyone in the kingdom, especially her father, King Willy.

One day, King Willy asked Princess Erin what she wanted for her birthday.

“A Unicorn!” shouted Princess Erin.

Unfortunately for King Willy, there were no unicorns in his kingdom. How was he ever going to get one for his beautiful daughter? He decided to ask his good friend Wizard Bobby for help.

“Wizard Bobby, can you do a spell and have a unicorn come to my kingdom for my daughter?” asked King Willy.

Wizard Bobby thought and thought. Finally he said, “I will have to go back to my tower and look through my spell books and see if I can find the right spell for you. I will return in three days.”

King Willy said thank you and good bye to Wizard Bobby and went to work getting the castle ready for Princess Erin’s birthday.

In the meantime, Wizard Bobby returned to his tower and began to look through his spell books for just the right spell to make King Willy and his daughter happy.

Finally, after looking for one whole day, he found the spell he was looking for. He went to gather the ingredients the spell said that he must add to his caldron:

1 laugh of a little boy
3 fairy tear drops
2 breaths of dragon fire
1 purple diamond
4 hummingbird feathers

and last but not least, the final thing to make the unicorn stay in the kingdom: 1 kiss from a princess.

On the second day, the first place Wizard Bobby went was to his friend, six year old Aidan. He had brought a tiny bottle with him and asked Aidan to laugh into it so he could have his first ingredient for the cauldron. Aidan agreed and laughed for Wizard Bobby.

Wizard Bobby quickly caught the laugh in his bottle and said, “Thank you! Now I must go and get 3 fairy tear drops.”

Wizard Bobby wasn’t sure where he was going to get 3 fairy tear drops. He had never seen a fairy before, but he knew where to find one…The Gold and Silver Forest.

The Gold and Silver Forest was a beautiful place, the tree trunks shimmered in the sunlight and the leaves made soft music when the breeze blew through them. Wizard Bobby walked slowly, being careful to stay on the path—he didn’t want to know what would happen if he got lost!

Suddenly, Wizard Bobby heard singing right next to his left ear. He turned his head to see who it was and spied a lovely fairy dressed in purple with blue antennae! The fairy’s song sounded very sad. It went like this:

*The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I’m so lonesome I could cry

Wizard Bobby felt so sad when he heard her song that he almost started to cry. He saw that the little fairy WAS crying.

“Why are you so sad little fairy?”

The little fairy sniffed and said, “I’m sad because I haven’t seen a unicorn in my whole entire life, and all the other fairies have.”

Wizard Bobby smiled at the fairy and said, “I can help you fix that if you will let me have 3 of your tears. I am fixing a spell to bring a unicorn to the kingdom.”

The little fairy agreed and let Wizard Bobby catch her tears in his little bottle. Then she asked if she could come with him to find the rest of the ingredients.

“Of course!” said Wizard Bobby and the two left The Gold and Silver Forest.

After traveling for a while, the little fairy spotted a purple diamond in the side of a mountain. Wizard Bobby climbed up and got it and put it in his pocket.

Wizard Bobby and the fairy stopped for dinner near a lovely garden (because fairies eat flower nectar) and while the fairy was eating she asked the hummingbird that was sucking the nectar from the flower next to her if she could have 4 of his feathers. The hummingbird agreed as long as the fairy would sing to him. So she sang him this song:

~You are my sunshine
My only sunshine.
You make me happy
When skies are grey.
You'll never know, dear,
How much I love you.
Please don't take my sunshine away.

The hummingbird was very happy and gave her four of his feathers.

The fairy took the feathers back to Wizard Bobby when her belly was full of nectar and he was very thankful and gave her a tiny kiss on the cheek.

They only had one more ingredient to find: dragon breath. They decided they would find it the next day and settled down to sleep.

Early in the morning, Wizard Bobby was awakened by the little fairy pulling on his ear, “Get up! Get up! There’s a dragon in the garden!”

Wizard Bobby was frightened. He had heard that dragons were big and mean and would eat things that crossed their paths. The dragon breath was the one ingredient he was afraid to get.

“OOooooowwwwww!” There was a great howl throughout the garden.

“OOOooooowwwww!” The howl came again.

Wizard Bobby and the fairy made their way through the garden towards the howling sound, trembling with fear.

“OOoooooooowwww!” Finally, Wizard Bobby and the little fairy could see what was making all the noise. Sitting in the very center of the garden was a fat red dragon. He was holding the tip of his tail and howling, giant tears running off his snout.

This dragon was not scary at all. He was obviously a young dragon and in a great deal of pain.

“Hello there dragon!” shouted Wizard Bobby—because even though the dragon was young his head was still way above the trees. “What’s wrong? Can we help you?”

The fat red dragon sniffed and said, “I have thorns in my tail and I can’t get them out because my claws are too big,” and then he howled, “ooooooowwwwww!” again.

“I know how to fix that,” Wizard Bobby said. “If I take the thorns out, will you give me two breaths of your fire?”

“Anything! Anything, just make the pain stop!”

Wizard Bobby waved his wand and said, “Thorniculous!”

The fat dragon immediately felt better and breathed twice into Wizard Bobby’s bottle.
“Why do you need my breath?” asked the fat dragon.

“To make a unicorn for Princess Erin’s birthday.”

“OH! I love Princess Erin! May I come with you?”

Wizard Bobby agreed and he, the little fairy and the fat dragon headed back to the castle to do the spell for King Willy.

Three days after he first left the castle, Wizard Bobby knocked on the castle door and asked to see the king. King Willy was surprised to see the wizard with a fairy and a dragon, but no unicorn. “Where’s the unicorn?” he asked.

“I have all the ingredients to do the spell, but Princess Erin must give the unicorn a kiss to make it stay and my friends would like to see the beauty of a unicorn.”

King Willy understood and gathered all the members of the court to celebrate Princess Erin’s birthday in the wonderfully decorated main hall.

Princess Erin clapped her hands and twirled when she saw the decorations and the wizard, fairy and dragon next to her father. She ran to King Willy and gave him a big hug.

“Father, this is the best birthday ever! You brought a wizard, a dragon and a fairy, I can’t wait to meet them!”

Wizard Bobby spoke, “We are not your present Princess Erin, I will be creating your present, right now.”

Wizard Bobby began to put the ingredients into the pot in front of him: first the laugh, then the fairy tear drops, followed by the breaths of dragon fire, then the purple diamond and finally the four hummingbird feathers. He stirred and stirred until shining purple smoke started to rise from the pot and began to make the shape of a unicorn right in front of Princess Erin.

“Quick Princess! Kiss the unicorn!”

Princess Erin kissed the unicorn on its soft nose and everyone in the hall clapped as the unicorn became solid and then pranced up and down in front of all the people.

Then Princess Erin thanked Wizard Bobby, the little fairy, the fat dragon and finally her father King Willy for the best birthday ever!

*Hank Williams
~Davis & Charles Mitchell