I need some ideas for my English assignment. What was your favorite story as a child?

Question

For my English assignment, we have to write a children's book. It has to be at least 6 pages long. I know, it sounds way easy, but here's the catch. We have to use a general idea and then make it our own. For example, Toy Story. There have been a lot of stories where toys come to life, but they took that idea, and made their own story out of it. Do you have any suggestions I can use? Thanks.

Answer 1

The Turtle and The Hare. Always a good story to teach children about how slow and steady wins the race!

Answer 2

My favorite kid book was Five Little Peppers and How They Grew..it's about a down and out family , a mother with 5 kids who live an incredibly rich life. The thing about the book is the it's written in dialect not heard to often. You can easily adapt it to current times, using your own dialect. It even has a hero for you .I'm sure you can find it at a library. If your teacher is over 30, he/she might remember it (extra points for you). Enjoy it anyway!

Answer 3

When I was little, my dad would tell me about his adventures as a boy with his talking dog, Jack (!).
He and Jack would be out, oh, swinging on a rope and landing in the pond, or doing some other fun thing when, "Look!", said Jack, "look over there, Glen, there's smoke! Something's on FIRE!" So, the story unfolds and young Glen and Jack go off to put the fire out and rescue a family and their cats and kittens.
Dad would make up different stories, and I could always visualize what was taking place. Now I have the wonderful memories.

Answer 4

English is my favorite subject and I have had an assignment like that before. When I did it we had had to sit down and just brainstorm ideas, write them down, and in the end circle the one we could come with the best story for. I would try something with snowmen or something normal like that. If your looking for something that has already been created, try animals. Something like the Lion King or Three Little Pigs.

Answer 5

I was a big fan of anything Disney. I also loved the idea of toys coming to life (favorite stuffed toys, in particular), much like the tiger in the comicstrip 'Calvin and Hobbes'.

Answer 6

I remember liking Three Billy Goats Gruff but it's actually kind of a violent story. I also liked Thumbelina - the idea of being so small was really fascinating to me.

Also anything with fairies and sparkly stuff

Answer 7

6 pages huh? should be easy. just take one of the numerous fairy tales. Rapunzel, Ugly Duckling, etc and pull some creative spin on it. For example an ugly person is made fun of but he actually grows up to be an adonis.

Answer 8

The little Engine That Could---write about some person or anumal attempting to do something and not quite getting it until they try and try and try again. By about the third failure they finally MAKE IT. Good Luck!

Answer 9

My favorite books were the "Boxcar Children" series. I've tried buying them now and they are so expensive, real collector items.
Great stories about a family of children whose parents die and they run away and find an abandoned boxcar and make it their home so they won't be separated. Loved them! Thanks for the memories.

Answer 10

My favorite was Puss in Boots (I drove my oldest sister crazy by asking her to read it to me every night!! :-) ).

A friend of mine is a professor of English, and one of the stock assignments that she gives her American Lit I class is to take one of the stories or accounts they've read and retell it in modern terms--for instance, one student recast Mary Rowlandson's Indian captivity narrative in terms of a preacher's wife kidnapped by Al-Qaida. Another modernized Rip Van Winkle.

Hope these suggestions can help in your creative process!