Isla and the Way Home

A wooden friend learning to tell the truth

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ChildIsla, aged 5
StoryPinocchio
Book8 pages, one photo
Picture styleIllustrated
Illustration strengthLow
Illustration lookLuminous drawing

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Isla and the Way Home

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Isla helped the old woodcarver sand and paint a puppet he had carved all winter. She smoothed one wooden arm. “Perhaps you will be my friend,” she whispered.
In the workshop, the puppet opened his eyes and sat up, waving his wooden arms. Isla gasped, then smiled. “Hello, friend!” she said, and he bowed just for her.
On the road to school, two smooth-talking strangers beckoned the puppet toward a glittering fairground. “School can wait!” they purred. Isla called, “We don't know you!” But her new friend followed their shiny promises.
“I went to school,” the puppet fibbed. His nose grew longer and longer as Isla pointed in surprise. Above them, a fairy shut the tricksters' fair. “I'll keep you safe,” she promised Isla.
With the fairy's warm magic around her, Isla walked the whole shoreline, lifting her lantern and calling. The puppet had fled in shame. Only gulls answered, but Isla would not give up.
Isla knelt in a little boat, snug inside the fairy's magic. A wave as tall as a house rolled in. Beneath it rose an enormous whale, opening its mouth like a gentle cave.
Inside the whale, Isla lit a candle beside her friend. “I lied,” he said, and his nose shrank. Isla planned their path and asked, “Please let us out.” The whale sighed them safely into the sea.
Isla and the puppet came home to the woodcarver's bright doorway. “I missed school,” the puppet told him. “Tomorrow, I'll go.” Isla smiled: her friend had learned that the truth was the best way home.

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