La-me lifted up his lip and showed the others the gap in his teeth. "If
you put an old tooth under your pillow you sometimes get money."

"Lost a tooth but found a dollar," sang Kiri.

Hone remembered his birthday party and said, "you might get money just by
having a birthday."
"But we can¹t wait that long!"

Someone suggested, "it you keep the change when you're sent to buy things
for Mum or Dad..."
"But that would be stealing," cried all the others.

"We could buy a Lotto ticket and win a lot of money."
"My Mum buys lottery tickets and she doesn't win a lot of money"² said
So-me.

"We could write a fairy story and sell it to a publisher."
"We'll write the story,' said La-so-me and La-me.

"We'll make up the music bits," said Renee and So-me.

"We'll draw the pictures," said Hone and Ta¹i.
"I'll help you," said Kiri.

Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess who lay as still as death
from a witches spell.

La-so-me wrote the words at the top of a clean sheet of paper.

Kiri, encouraged by the two boys, drew a picture of a beautiful princess
lying in bed, looking dead.

So-me sang, "Dead as a do-do," a few times in a heavy voice. The others
joined in. He wrote the words out on a doh line underneath.
"Give her a name," said La-me.
(s)
(m) They call me Mimi
(d)
sang Renee in her light voice.
"Not you silly! The princess - and she's dead."
"Only seems to be dead," said Renee.

"Now we need a handsome prince who has been turned into a hedgehog or
something strange."
"Make him a monarch butterfly," said La-me, who had just seen one fly past,
"then later on he can be king."

So, one day a monarch butterfly landed on the lips of the princess and gave
her a kiss.

Straight away, the horrible spells were broken and the butterfly turned into
a handsome prince.

Mimi came to life slowly, got up and said, "I don't take gifts from
strangers," and gently gave him back his kiss...
"How do you feel now?" asked the prince.

She sang sleepily in her light voice.
"'¹m only so so"
"I think I need another kiss!"
"But I'm a stranger," said the prince.
"Not any more," replied Mimi as she threw her arms around his neck.
And just as she had needed him to bring her back to life, so he needed her
to make his life worth living.

Mum wrote out the music like this:
doh doh doh doh doh
me me me me me
so so so so so

When the prince became king, he married Mimi and they lived happily ever
after.
No-one would buy the story, but Mrs Clapham put it up across the back wall
of her classroom for everybody to see.
Hoo - ray me, Hoo - ray doh, Hoo - ray s l m r d