Creative writing inspired by a Giles cartoon
Recently children in Years 5 and 6 were given a famous Giles cartoon to study. It shows a baby climbing the steeple of Big Ben in London pursued by climbing policemen and rescuers dangling from a hovering helicopter. What is going on?
Here are Alastairs thoughts:
One day Graham woke up and looked at the pictures of great explorers on the walls of his bedroom and thought he would like to go on an adventure just like them.
Graham was only one year old; he was short and fat with not much hair and only one tooth. He thought he was cool and he wanted to be an adventurer. So he unlocked the hold on his cot with a plastic screwdriver from his baby tool set. crawled across the room, up the set of drawers and jumped out of the window.
He landed on a trampoline, which his brother, David, must have left out last night. He bounced off of it and landed in the hedge. He rolled out of the hedge onto a skateboard, up a ramp that was in the street and landed through the sunroof of an Aston Martin Vanquish. It was James Bond's car. Bond turned to look a Graham and said quickly,
"Get out of my car", and then pressed the ejector seat.
When Graham had gone Bond muttered, "I really shouldn't leave the sunroof open!".
Graham landed in a construction site. He crawled onto a metal pole that lifted him onto the top of a building. The roof had a big ramp going down and a small ramp going up. He quickly jumped to a conclusion. He grabbed a builder's lunchbox, slid down the big ramp, up the small ramp and into a builder's cradle that took Graham to the next roof. He was on the roof of the Houses of Parliament, although Graham didn't know that.
Graham noticed a really high flight of metal steps. It was a fire exit, but Graham didn't know that wither. So he crawled and crawled and crawled until finally he got to the top of Big Ben. He looked around for a while until he got cold and started to cry. People heard him and sent up helicopters. One of the helicopters sent down a rope and a man tied it to Graham, and pulled him away. Just then a pigeon with a pizza tied on its back snapped through the rope. Graham fell. It took a long time because Big Ben was very tall and he was very small!!
Luckily he landed through a small gap in the roof of a pillow factory. A few minutes later when he was dozing off, they opened the doors and all the pillows came rolling out. Graham quickly grabbed a pillow and jumped into the River Thames, where he floated to a dock and jumped out onto the bank. He walked up the street and met a group of skateboarders, so he knew he must be close to his home. Graham managed to grab a skateboard, grabbed the wagging tail of a passing dog which took him to his front door. He quickly crawled up the stairs and back into his cot. Graham fell asleep immediately. He was exhausted.
Graham had become fond of skateboarding, but never went near pizzas or pigeons ever again!
His Mum and Dad never knew what had happened on Big Ben that day.
Here are Alastairs thoughts:
One day Graham woke up and looked at the pictures of great explorers on the walls of his bedroom and thought he would like to go on an adventure just like them.
Graham was only one year old; he was short and fat with not much hair and only one tooth. He thought he was cool and he wanted to be an adventurer. So he unlocked the hold on his cot with a plastic screwdriver from his baby tool set. crawled across the room, up the set of drawers and jumped out of the window.
He landed on a trampoline, which his brother, David, must have left out last night. He bounced off of it and landed in the hedge. He rolled out of the hedge onto a skateboard, up a ramp that was in the street and landed through the sunroof of an Aston Martin Vanquish. It was James Bond's car. Bond turned to look a Graham and said quickly,
"Get out of my car", and then pressed the ejector seat.
When Graham had gone Bond muttered, "I really shouldn't leave the sunroof open!".
Graham landed in a construction site. He crawled onto a metal pole that lifted him onto the top of a building. The roof had a big ramp going down and a small ramp going up. He quickly jumped to a conclusion. He grabbed a builder's lunchbox, slid down the big ramp, up the small ramp and into a builder's cradle that took Graham to the next roof. He was on the roof of the Houses of Parliament, although Graham didn't know that.
Graham noticed a really high flight of metal steps. It was a fire exit, but Graham didn't know that wither. So he crawled and crawled and crawled until finally he got to the top of Big Ben. He looked around for a while until he got cold and started to cry. People heard him and sent up helicopters. One of the helicopters sent down a rope and a man tied it to Graham, and pulled him away. Just then a pigeon with a pizza tied on its back snapped through the rope. Graham fell. It took a long time because Big Ben was very tall and he was very small!!
Luckily he landed through a small gap in the roof of a pillow factory. A few minutes later when he was dozing off, they opened the doors and all the pillows came rolling out. Graham quickly grabbed a pillow and jumped into the River Thames, where he floated to a dock and jumped out onto the bank. He walked up the street and met a group of skateboarders, so he knew he must be close to his home. Graham managed to grab a skateboard, grabbed the wagging tail of a passing dog which took him to his front door. He quickly crawled up the stairs and back into his cot. Graham fell asleep immediately. He was exhausted.
Graham had become fond of skateboarding, but never went near pizzas or pigeons ever again!
His Mum and Dad never knew what had happened on Big Ben that day.