Jennifer Pickering

Category: Children’s Literature

  • The Three Pirates

    As Sophia approached the end of her garden, the grass now nipping the backs of her knees, she glanced back to where her brother was still playing. Not yet big enough to toddle, he giggled with joy as their mother danced a toy about him. Sophia was now hidden behind the summer house and in…

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  • The Day the Teacher Went Missing

    Little Jeremy Parker was always late to school and so, when the bell went and Jeremy’s space was empty in line, no one thought anything of it. 3A did, however, notice the missing space at the front of their line. “Where is Miss Arnold?” Suzie turned to Amy, who currently had a finger hidden up…

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  • Shadow Watchers

    As I grew up my shadow was my best friend. We would play together until we both tired, and we’d curl up together until it was time to play once more. I was eight when I realised my shadow was nothing more than that but I still trusted it and cared for it. I even…

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  • Little Bird

    There once was a little bird who sat upon a log, he made friends with all the fish and the green and slimy frog. He tweeted tunes all day and night to all his little friends, and when he ran out of songs to sing, he sang them all again. By Jennifer Pickering A very…

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