This is my 9-year-old Granddaughters' version:
One Afternoon, daisy was eating her happy meal and looked at the activities on the box. There were three facts, such as kappa is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet, manna is good food provided by God to the Israelites in the wilderness and a capon is a castrated male chicken. “Well that will be handy for school!” Daisy thought to herself. After lunch, Daisy, Danny and dad went to the cinema to watch ‘The canon in the wagon’. Danny went manic after that! Dad has booked us a private tour around the cushion factory. We found out that kapok is used to stuff the inside of cushions. Then we drive home while listening to a sappy old love song that dad likes. Grandma was sitting in an armchair and mum was changing baby Carla’s nappy. Dad and mum called gran a lovely old lady. Me and Danny secretly called her saggy! For dinner we had savoy and bacon.
This is my version:
NikolAs was a fisherman who's boat was the 'Kappa', being the tenth in the fleet. He was fishing in the Eastern Mediterranean and was surprised by the strange white flakes falling from the sky. "What is it", he pondered, "it looks like coriander seed". He tentatively put one on his tongue - it tasted of wafers and honey. Seeing as his first thought was 'What is it', he called it manna; little did he know that that was just what the tribe of Israel had called it at the very same time. Because it was so lovely, there was a manic chase all over his boat gathering as much as he could for a tasty snack which quite filled him up. Soon after the wind dropped and his sail became all saggy. Fortunately he wasn't too far from shore, so he rowed and moored up. He got out to have a nap, but noticed this unusual tree leaking liquid. The sappy juice was slightly sweet, so that was two treats today! He didn't need to eat boring savoy that day! As he lay there a woman came along with her baby strapped to her. She stopped and Nikolas thought how handy she was changing the baby's nappy. He was annoyed that there was only one daisy growing there, so he couldn't present her with a bunch of flowers, and she set off again. The manna was so filling that he didn't need to have a piece of cooked capon that evening back in the boat - it would keep for another day. He lay down on his kapok-filled pillow and slept really well. Next day he saw a wagon going by loaded with goods for sale but for him the sea beckoned. He checked his seafarers canon of how to make the return journey given the current conditions and cast off from the shore to sail home. He was looking forward to his bacon and rice when he got home.
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