His creator, Jumba Jukiba, was with him. Because 626 destroyed everything he touched, Jumba had been accused of creating a monster. The Grand Councilwoman turned to 626. “Show us there is something inside you that is good,” she said. “Meega, na la queesta!” replied 626. “So naughty!” the Grand Co...
“There it is, Tink. Fairy camp!” A fairy on the ground waved mushroom caps to guide them to the landing field. Tink and Terence touched down in the center of a ring of toadstools. A whistle from above warned them that something large was coming in for a landing. They looke...
It was a beautiful day for gardening. “Ah la la la la ah,” she sang as she made her way to the back shed. As he stood on his pedestal, Gnomeo’s eyes cut toward Miss Montague. She was about to discover what had happened to her lawn mower in the race with Tybalt. Miss Montague unlatched the shed do...
“You know,” said Marlin, “Dory’s birthday is coming up. She mentioned it a while ago. But you know her—she’s probably forgotten all about it.” Nemo decided he wanted to do something special for Dory. After all, she was like family. I know, he thought, I’ll throw her a surprise birthday party! At ...
She lived with her widowed father. He loved her very much, but thought she needed a mother. So he married a woman with two daughters named Anastasia and Drizella. Not long after that, he died. Cinderella’s stepmother, Lady Tremaine, spent most of the family fortune. She forced Cinderella to becom...
She knew exactly how to be helpful! Rapunzel loved flowers, like the pretty one she had put in Blondie’s mane! But picking flowers took time. And Rapunzel was so busy. Blondie would pick some for her! Blondie skidded to a stop outside the garden wal...
He loved his classmates, he loved his teachers, and he loved to learn. Every morning, Nemo’s dad, Marlin, took him to school. Along the way, Nemo always asked lots of questions. “What is a whale’s tongue like, Dad?” Nemo asked. But before his father could answer, Nemo had moved on to the next que...
They watched as two robots got ready to fight. Fourteen-year-old Hiro Hamada waited. One of the robots was his, and it would be fighting Mr. Yama’s robot. Mr. Yama’s robot was the current champion. “Two bots enter. One bot leaves,” the referee said,...
Mrs. Carroll said. “But it’s an interesting part of Fernfield folklore.” Her class stared at the boarded-up old manor on the outskirts of town. Five of the kids in the class—Billy, Pete, Bartleby, Sam, and Alice—were there. They had brought their golden retriever puppies with them—B-Dawg, Mudbud,...
Potts arrived at Belle’s bedroom just in time to see her twirl around in her beautiful new ball gown. “Do you like it?” Wardrobe, another one of the enchanted objects, asked eagerly. “Like it? Oh, I love it!” Belle cried. Belle spun around again. Her gown was made from sparkly gold fabric. Delica...
He was supposed to be writing, but he was distracted. He put down his pen and glanced at an open door a short distance away. Periwinkle had been inside that room for most of the day. He went over and poked his head in to check on her. She was sitting in the middle of the large snowflake, mesmeriz...
BUT ON THIS ISLAND, IT’S ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT “LONG LIVE EVIL.” On the Isle of the Lost, Mal spray-painted a battered city wall. With her purple hair, leather jacket with a decal of two dragons on the back, and tough-as-nails boots, Mal had trouble wri...
The tower there was done, but Gruff was gone. The scouts arrived at the tower to find no one there. Nyx studied the structure. “Just like the other two. Just like the drawing.” Fury kneeled at the edge of the woods and discov...
“What do you feel like doing?” Woody the cowboy asked the other toys. “How about a spelling bee?” suggested Mr. Spell. “Nah, you always win,” Hamm the piggy bank replied. “What about a game of hide-and-seek?” asked Slinky Dog. “I’d rather not,” Rex the dinosaur said nervously. He didn’t like smal...