Aunt Pythia's Peculiar Pet

National Literacy Trust

Redcar-based writer, Carmen Marcus, collaborated with NLT to invite children on a magical Halloween writing adventure to create their own story about a peculiar pet over the course of five days. Lizzie Lovejoy was commissioned to illusrate the project and the winners story.

"Every time a big package is delivered to your home it's so annoying to find that it's just another boring thing for your parents. But what if one day a package arrives for you and it's definitely not boring, it's covered in strange stamps and there seems to be a faint rustling and snorting coming from inside it?"

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