My daughter, Abigail, has entered the Radio 2 short story competition this year for the first time. The deal is, children under the age of nine years old write a story of no more than 500 words about anything they want and can win a whole bunch of books for the school they attend. I’m a proud dad, so have graciously been given permission to share her story on my blog. Here, for your pleasure, is Abby’s story…

The Princess of CandyLand

Once upon a time there was a young princess named  Ella.  She was attending her new school “HollyWarts” and really wanted to do the portal run so she wouldn’t be a normal  princess but a BETTER princess. Well, guess what? She was doing  the portal run.

”YAY” said Ella, excitedly

She got to her portal  and discovered there were three other people doing it. Amy, Jade and Benny. Amy was sent to “Fashion Town”, Jade to “Mermadia” and Benny to “Rocktopia”

Ella… she was sent to “CandyLand”

”WOWZERS!” said Ella.

The sun was made of a yellow Smartie and the clouds were made of candy floss! Ella stepped forward and… SPLAT! She stepped in some mud. But wait a minute…  it wasn’t mud it was toffee! She finally  got to a town with the help of some gingerbread men and women  and gummy  bear children. She had to do three tasks to become the princess she’d soon be. She wondered around for a bit and found a lollipop forest  finding a cute chocolate smothered piggy

“Arhh you could just eat him all up! Not literally because it was so cute!” Ella said.

She started to get a bit hungry. Good thing there was food everywhere! She ate a big piece of  chocolate cake and an enormous JellyBaby until she was a very full princess! Then, she went back to the village. There were so many people that had tasks for her, but she could only do three. She chose the hardest ones!

Her first task was from one of the orphan gummy bear children. A very hard task indeed! Ella had to get a fudge dog which cost ninety pounds. She had one hundred in her princess purse, so went to the pet shop and got a dog. She gave it to the orphan.

Her next task was to give five sweets to Mr. CandyFloss. Ella went to the sweet shop and got five sweets and she gave them to him.

Her last task was to help Mrs. Caramel plant her raisins. She did that and set off to find the candy palace. She travelled across woods and farms and she finally got there!

”Ugh what a long journey” said Ella. She knocked on the door and got crowned princess of CandyLand. She had done a good job!

The portal appeared and it was time to go home.

“Goodbye CandyLand! See you soon!” Ella shouted to everyone.

She got back to school.

”Oh my gosh” said Ella. Her outfit had changed! Her dress was red and white striped like a sweet and her tiara was made out of a Curly Wurly! Ella was amazed! She had become  a candy princess!

“Cool!” Ella said.

Then she went to do a maths test. It was 1+70. “Easy, 71!” Ella said. Next question was 40-23

“oh come on…”

Finally, it was the end of school. What a stressful day for poor princess Ella.

“Wow…” she said. ”Time for a nap!”

It was indeed!

Author Bio - Abigail Veste is seven years old. She likes Minecraft, Monster High, MovieStar Planet… and other things that begin with the letter M. She’s in primary school and wants to be an entertainer or a fashion designer when she grows up. Her favourite subject at school is literacy and enjoys “doing lots of writing”.