Yarni is………………..
The Great, Messy, Multicoloured, Monstrous Yarn Monster
Written by Andrea Pukteris
Illustrated by Stephen Stone
“Grandmaaaaaaaaa!
Are you in there?”
Grandma usually answered the door on the first buzz. She was always close by, making fresh orange juice for Owen’s arrival from school. Owen liked his afternoons with Grandma before he had to go home and do homework, eat his spinach, clean his room and other such booooring things.
Where was Grandma? Bzzzt….. BZZZZZZT!.... Owen wanted his oatmeal-choco-blast-moon-pie-cookies too.
Bzzzt….. BZZZZZZT!....
Still no grandma.
Tired of waiting in the cold, Owen turned the frozen handle. The door clicked open and he stepped inside.
“GRANDMAAAAAAAAAAAAA”
“GRANDMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”
Not a sound. Not a creak.
Owen tossed his backpack on the floor and his coat, hat, mittens and boots in a pile. He stomped over to the kitchen for his treats.
There lay two oranges cut open but no grandma….
Owen got a chill up his back despite it being as hot as the sun inside.
He looked around. Grandmas’ always seemed more messy than his home where Dad constantly nagged him to put his stuff away and tidy up.
Suddenly, Owen felt a slight breeze across his cheek. Something brushed against his leg. YIKES!
“Prrrrowwww” said Grandma’s big black cat, who looked back at Owen like he was crazy.
“Oh, it’s you Bandit.” Owen said
Bandit pointed to his dish with his paw.
“Prrrrowwww?” said Bandit
It was also empty, just like Owens cookie plate.
“You neither eh?” Owen said.
Owen patted Bandits head and got off the chair.
“We better investigate.”
Into the living room they went, it was … different, the living room was very different indeed! It was covered in
……orange fluff!
When Bandit tried to scratch his chin against the corner of the chair, he got a big fluffy orange goatee!
Owen laughed, because Bandit looked like a bearded gnome.
What’s next?
You’ll have to follow Owen and Bandit!
Who is the Great Messy Multicoloured Monstrous Yarn Monster?
“I’m not sure but I think I saw one in my basement, except it was made of dust bunnies. We had to call the exterminator.”
— Avery, age 7
“If it comes out on a Wednesday I’m going to take it down. Only on Wednesdays, cause that’s when I have my super strength ”
— Rhys, age 5