Bente heeft op school een verhaal moeten schrijven. Een fantasieverhaal welteverstaan. Bente houdt van schrijven en tekenen en heeft een grote fantasie. Ze schreef het verhaal met de cryptische titel: “Change the dragon, but change te season”. Over zichzelf schrijft ze kort en bondig: “about the author. Bente is an 8 year old girl in Aisb in Second grade (groep 4) She likes the seasons. Her favorites are winter and spring.
Haar verhaal op de achterkant van haar boek waarin ze haar verhaal samenvat is als volgt: Fly with Frostine covered in scales. But that is not all. She flies from winter to spring and back to winter by capture and escape.
Hier haar verhaal (nog niet helemaal geredigeerd of gecontroleerd op typefouten).
Chapter 1 – transform into a dragon
Once upon a time there lived a beautiful princess. Most people call the princess, Frostine. Her hair was as white as snow and she loved to ice-skate. Her parents almost never let her go outside but some time she could sneak outside. Just to skate on the ice.
One night she woke up with a funny feeling. She looked down at her hands. “YIKES!” she shouted. Her hands were claws with red scales! And her nails were shiny and white. Even sharper then a knife. She looked in the mirror and let out a scream. Guess What. In the mirror she saw a fierce looking dragon with wings.
She burst into tears and flew out her window. As she wondered over the village she noticed the guards that spotted her. They pulled out their bow and arrow and shot up the arrows. “I don’t like the sound of this”. She said. And she zigged and zagged to escape the arrows. “pfff, that was close”. She sighted
Chapter 2 – Caught up by a wizard
Suddenly someone threw a net over her. She dropped down like a heavy rock. She landed with a big THUMB. She looked up and saw an old man. His beard was up to his feet. And he looked like a wizard. She struggled to get loose. The wizard squashed her tail. The princess felt the pain from the tail and closed her eyes.
When she opened her eyes she was chained to the wall in a dark cage. She started nibbling for hours and her teeth started to hurt. Suddenly the chain snapped and she freed her other claw as well. Just then the wizard stood in front of her cage. “ Oh you think you are so brave.” He said “ Well yes I think so, because I broke the chain as you can see”. Princes Frostine replied. The wizard was not afraid because the princess was still locked in the cage. And then the wizard turned away to the other cages!
Chapter 3 – I am free
Princess Frostine saw her way out. She silently walked to the cage door, stretched her arm for the keys that were dangling on the walls. She stretched her arms as far as they could go. “ I GOT IT, I GOT IT! And she did get it. She stuck the keys in the keyhole. She turned left and right until the door opened. As soon as the door opened she flew out. Not knowing where she was going.
Chapter 4- No more dragon.
Frostine looked for her castle everywhere. But all she saw where trees with holes. She peaked inside a tree and found a hole big enough to sleep in. She lay down inside the tree and fell fast asleep. She slept so quietly that she did not feel her sharp nails disappearing, her tail growing shorter and she scales vanishing.
“tweet, tweet” The birds were singing beautiful songs. She woke up like a rocket. The tree was surrounded by animals, making lots of noise. Her stomach rumbled. She was hungry. In the tree was a nice apple, she picked the apple and ate it for breakfast. Frostine looked down and saw she was in her underwear. “OH NO!” she shouted. Suddenly birds came down with leaves and flowers. Then she had an idea. She got out her sewing stuff that she has normally with her. And she sew the leaves and flowers to a beautiful dress.
Chapter -5 A life in the woods
All the animals stared at her. A little badger was not scared for her and walked up to her. “What is your name, you look so beautiful?” Princess Frostine burst into a big laugh and the animals laughed with her. Even the badger had a smile on his snout. “my name is Frostine” she answered. “have you maybe seen a castle?” “No” said at he bunny “but you can stay with us” said the dear. “And there is lots of fruit to eat” said one of the birds. She agreed with the animals. Years past and she enjoyed her life in the forest. She had plenty to eat and the animals kept her company.
Chapter- 6 Night dragon.
One night, when the full moon was out, she woke up again in the middle of the night feeling like she was surrounded by animals and for one thing she was. The bunny found a nice place on her belly and the birds were sleeping on her tail and the badger used the dragons tail as a blanket . Then the deer broke the silence: “Can I ride on your back” he said looking at the wings. He woke up the badger and the badge woke the bunny. The birds were already awake. Frostine got out of her tree. So did the other animals. Then she breathed and lowered her back. The badger went on first and sat between her wings. The bunny sat on the dragons’ long snout. She soared like a bird and snatched an apple while flying past a tree. Her Scales shined in the moonlight. She felt free like no one could tell her what to do. That very moment everything was perfect. But suddenly her scales were disappearing and her nails grew shorter. She knew it was almost day and when it was day, she would not be a dragon anymore. And if she wasn’t a dragon she didn’t have wings. She swooped down trying to find a landing place. She could only spot a little grass field and landed softly.
The badger who was clinging to her wings found them disappearing and landed face down in the shiny grass. Then the bunny asked: “are we dead?”. “No” said Frostine. “But lets find the others”. Right when she finished speaking a dragon picked her up. She dropped the bunny form her arms.
The dragon took her to a mountain at the top it was surrounded with green clouds. The dragon was flying towards a big window in the mountain. He flew into the mountain and dropped her. This was her chance, she ran and ran. “Guards, stop her!” yelled the dragon. Suddenly two dragons stood before her one hit her with his scary head. Whe she was awake her hands were chained together. Again. The dragon that took her was holding a the chain with one hand and in his other hand was a big shiny dagger. “You are a prisoner.” Said the dragon, then he chained the chain the the wall.
Frostine sat there, trying not to fall asleep. She waited and waited until suddenly all the animals jumped in. “ We like you, so we help you” said the bunny already unchaining her. “Yes, me too” said the bird as he was unlocking the chain on her hands. When everything was loose Frostine crept out through the window and to her surprise she could see her Castle. The castle she lived in with the king and queen. She told the animals everything about her castle. “We come with you” said the bunny. Frostine could not say, she agreed.
They hurried to the caste. The bunny was the fastest, he was there first. He knocked on the door and the guards opened. The guards let them in. Most of the guards did not know it was actually princess Frostine. But when the king and queen saw her they ran up to her and hugged her with tears of happiness. She told them the whole story of how she went away and came back. The king and queen listened they were soo happy. Their little princess had returned. Her hair had changed from white to light blond and she never iceskated again and they lived happily ever after.
