Children's Stories

This story is based on true [well, mostly true] events with a very large dollop of poetic license. {Poetic license means the story teller or writer may take some liberties with the facts to make a story better. Remember, you must have a license to do this and never to be used with parents, teachers, or friends.}

Della takes pride in doing her job of chasing chipmunks out of the yard. One day, she must make a choice between doing her job or doing the right thing. A hard decision for a little wiener dog. What does Della do?

Belacour comes from a long line of wonderful clowns. He has just graduated from clown school and is excited to entertain children at a birthday party. Disaster strikes. From then on, Belacour is afraid of children. Who ever heard of such a thing? Little Albert is afraid of clowns – a not unusual thing.

Every time Belacour sees a child he hides. Every time Little Albert sees a clown he screams and hides. Can this problem be solved?

The skylark is small ground-dwelling songbird that is noted for delivering a song while in flight. This story is a day in the life of just such a songbird. In The Lark Ascending, the songbird touches several lives in the course of his day. The song of the lark brightens the day of lonely old man and turns the tears of child to laughter. But the lark must face a danger of his own.