Carolyn Jeanette Bristow

Tommy and the hole in the floor Carolyn Jeanette Bristow

Hi. My name is Tommy and I live with my mom. My favorite thing to do when I am bored is play "Crocodiles and Alligators." It requires a lot of traveling to and from different Islands so they, the crocodiles and the alligators don't get me. One day my mom asked me to stop jumping all over the furniture (the Isles) so I wouldn't get hurt. She said it was dangerous. Well of course it was dangerous, because if I fell the crocodiles and alligators that lived in the water (or in some cases on the floor) would get me. So I kept playing anyway which turned out to be a mistake. As I was jumping from the couch to the very big arm chair, I miscalculated my distance, and as I grasped the chair it fell to the ground. Suddenly, a huge hole opened up and I fell in. I fell deep into a tunnel where I was swept up by a gush of water. It carried me through the tunnel and spat me out some place I have never seen before. There I meet a monkey named Coco who told me this place is called The Jungle Down Under. Coco promised to help me find my way home and so together we set out on an incredible journey, through new lands and an entire ocean. I made lots of friends and faced some of my biggest fears. All of this we did while finding our way home."