TRACEY C ORDEROY JOE BERGER
Tracey c orderoy
Joe Berger
For c harlotte,
“Have some cereal!” Granny grinned as she and Pandora ate breakfast.
Pandora had been staying with Granny all week. They’d been making a costume for Pandora’s school play, which was happening today.
Pandora eyed up the box of Froggy-Pops. Breakfast at Granny’s was always “different”.
In fact, everything at Granny’s was different. And that’s because Pandora’s granny was (whisper it!) a witch.
Granny tipped some cereal into Pandora’s bowl. Phew – it looked normal! But suddenly, as Pandora poured on the milk… POP! POP! POP!
The cereal frogs turned into real ones, which went leaping out of the bowl – ping!
“I love that spell!” giggled Granny. “Such fun!”
Pandora ate some toast instead. As she did, Granny’s grandmother clock gave a cough and a door by number eight creaked open. A sleepy little bat came wriggling out, yawning, “School time.”
Pandora plodded off upstairs and got into her costume for her school play. She couldn’t put it off a moment longer. Then peeping through
looked in the mirror. “Eeek!”
Granny had gone wild when they’d been making this costume. She’d cast every spell on it she knew!
Pandora was meant to be a plain garden slug. Not a slug that twinkled. Not a slug with spinning antennae. And certainly not a slug that blooped out giant rainbow bubbles!
“Splendid!” beamed Granny, zooming in on her broomstick. “Jump on then, Pip dear, and we’ll get you to school!”
Pandora gulped. All her friends would stare. The Noah’s Ark play her class were doing had no mention of super-sparkly slugs!
“Um, Granny,” said Pandora slowly, not wanting to upset her. “I don’t think my teacher likes … quite such sparkly slugs.”
“Nonsense!” Granny smiled. “You look magical!”
Pandora sighed. That was the problem! It was clear that Granny had done magic on her costume. But Pandora’s parents, who were coming to the play, didn’t like magic one bit. Her mum, Moonbeam, was a witch who never did magic. And Hugo, her dad, wasn’t magical at all, and always said MAGIC led to trouble.
As if this wasn’t bad enough, two important “inspector-people” were at school today, too. And Granny was staying to “help” with the play, so anything could happen!
Slowly, Pandora climbed on to the broomstick. Then Granny whooshed off up the chimney and out into the sky.
“Ooooh,” groaned Pandora, as her costume bubbled wildly. It was going to be another crazy day!