John And The Ladybugs, by Quinn, Year 6

My dad is a famous ladybird scientist who studies weird bugs. One day, I was playing with my Lego near my dad’s ladybird collection when I suddenly dropped my favourite Lego man through a small hole into the ladybirds’ cage. The ladybirds start to come close to my favourite Lego man, John, and start biting him fiercely. Then I realise that the ladybugs are getting bigger by the second. I hear footsteps coming up the stairs. “It’s Dad,” I whisper in my head. Now the ladybugs are coming out of the cage because they’re getting so big. “Lachlan,” Dad screams……