Once upon a time when people lived beyond the skies, there was a girl named Serena who lived in a wonderful land and was daughter of the King and Queen. In this land were mystical creatures who walked the land, and everything was magical. Everything.
Doors opened automatically, the stars twinkled even during the daytime, animals spoke to humans, and humans could fly to wherever they wanted to go that day. For Serena, this land she called home was paradise.
One day Serena was riding her silver unicorn through the enchanted sunflower field so that she could find the perfect sunflower to dress in her golden hair for her birthday extravaganza that evening. She jumped off of her unicorn, Moonlight, and walked the field searching for a marvelous sunflower.
As Serena was walking, she felt the land disappearing underneath her feet. She had walked onto a faulty piece of land and fell through the land. She began falling, falling, and falling for what seemed like an eternity. On her way down, she was passing glistening stars, falling through fluffy white clouds, and finally fell into a large body of water.
As she was falling, some of the oceans creatures saw her and were so confused as to what she was. When she fell into the water, they realized she could not swim and they helped carry her back to the surface so she could breathe. She was very thankful to them, but they could not hold her forever so they had to come up with a plan.
Jeremiah, the sea turtle decided that someone would have to go to the bottom of the sea to get some sand to create an island for Serena to walk on. First to search for sand was the seahorse, but the seahorse was too little and could not make the deep, deep trip to the bottom so he came back and apologized to Serena.
Next to search for sand was the mighty shark. The shark was strong and fast, but he got distracted by fish along the way. He stopped to eat every fish he crossed and never returned. Finally the frog, the smallest and oldest sea creature of them all, decided she would come forth and nominate herself to do the job. Everyone laughed and thought that there was no way possible that she could ever fulfill such a tough mission.
It took the frog an hour and twenty minutes to complete the task, but she accomplished it. She came back with a mouth full of sand and Jeremiah rubbed the sand all over his shell. Before they knew it, the sand was multiplying and growing faster and faster by the minute.
An hour later, the island was large enough for Serena to walk upon it. She finally had a place to rest, and found the island very beautiful. A year later the island had turned into a land as big as the world today. That is how planet earth came to be.
Serena loved her new land, but greatly missed the land where she was born and grown up. She missed her parents and the magic that surrounded her each day for in this world there was no magic. Although her parents searched for her day and night, they eventually searched their entire land but could not find her. They never would have dreamed she was living by herself in a whole other land made just for her. Serena spent most of her days crying because she was alone and had no friends or other humans to talk to.
One day a man was falling through the sky and landed in the same spot that Serena had a year before. He swam to the shore and him and Serena would be partners from that day on. Serena no longer spent her days lonely. This is how the world and its people came to be.
Author's Note: For this story, I changed the beginning the most. I also did change the end a little bit just to make it more realistic and make it make sense. In the original, there was nothing said about the girl being sad or that she missed her family. I feel like if I was the only person on an island, I would be so lonely so I added that. Also, there was no man in the original. It ended just saying that that was how the earth was made so I felt that it made more sense to put a man with her to show that that would be how the earth was populated. I made the land where the girl came from magical with mystical creatures to give it a little more excitement and mystery. In the original she did not have a unicorn or ride through sunflower fields. She was laying on the ground when some men were digging and dug too deep and she fell through the land. I also changed the part where she falls in the water. Turtles helped break her fall and I think it was more of a lake because they searched for dirt not sand.
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Book: British North America
Author: Katharine Berry Judson
Year Published: 1917
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