Tell Me a Fudge

The girls and I have been reading the Fudge books by Judy Blume.

In Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, it tells how little brother Fudge swallowed Peter's pet turtle, Dribble, and then their parents buy a dog for Peter, which he names "Turtle."

Then in Fudge-a-Mania, a slightly older Fudge dictates a book called Tell Me a Fudge. Chapter One is called "How Turtle Got His Name."

So Rachael decided to dictate her own version of Tell Me a Fudge. Here it is:

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Tell Me a Fudge - by Rachael, age seven

Chapter One - How Turtle Got His Name

Peter was going to check his turtle as usual when he got home from schoo. But oh no, oh no! The latch was unlocked, and there was a chair slammed of the door. Peter almost tripped over the chair. But when he got in his room and looked in Dribble's bowl, Dribble wasn't there.

He ran out of his room and into the kitchen, where Fudge was slamming pots and pans together, and where mother was stirring something.

"Where's Dribble?" Peter said.

"Where's who?" said mother, trying to get her voice over the pots and pans slamming together.

"Dribble!" said Peter.

"Oh! Dribble!" said mother. "Well, I'll have to look around the bedrooms and closets. I hope he's not wandering around somewhere that somebody can't find him. You know how much I don't like his smell."

After mother was gone, Fudge started slamming pots and pans together.

"Stop that racket! I can't hear anything!" said Peter.

Peter went over tho Fudge. "Did you take Dribble?" he asked.

Fudge didn't say anything.

"Just tell me. I won't be mad," said Peter.

"In tummy," Fudge said.

"Whose tummy?" said Peter.

"This one!" said Fudge, rubbing his tummy.

"Okay, how did it get there?" said Peter, playing along with Fudge's game.

Fudge jumped up. "I ate him, ate him, ate him!" he sang.

When mother got back to the kitchen, she said, "I've looked everywhere -- in the halls and in the bathrooms and --

"Mom! How could you let him?"

"Let who do what?"

"Let him eat him!" Peter said.

"Let who eat what?" said his mom.

"Let Fudge eat Dribble!" said Peter.