A Scarab Beetle Dream That
Never Came True Before
Until the Scarab Beetle
Dreamed of Adventure

by Dwayne McClaster, Juliette Samuel, Mason Davis, and Talena Edward-McLaughlin

Hi everybody, my name is TT Shiny Flyer. My friend’s name is Rabbit. We are scarab beetles and we are shiny and metallic. We live in a castle. It smells like flowers and refreshing air from a leaf. It looks like a square house that looks like bricks with a triangle and brick doors. It sounds like wind on the trees and bees dancing. We play dress up. Rabbit sits in the castle. I go hunting for food. Our castle is big and green like the elephant ear plant. We love to eat the heart-shaped leaves of elephant ear plants. They taste like green pizza.
You can touch the wavy rollercoaster fringe of the plant. The crust! But we also help to pollinate the plant. We carry the pollen from one flower to another. 

One day, me and Rabbit were enjoying our green pizza when all of a sudden . . . 

The green door to the green castle magically opened a portal. Inside of the portal was the biggest dream we ever had. In this world, on the ground, in the shade, we saw elephant ears everywhere. We were surprised and we couldn’t believe our eyes.

I said, “Rabbit, pinch me.”

We met two new scarab beetle friends, Flamingo and Lion Boy. We saw an elephant ear that was as giant as a skyscraper. We started munching. It was chewy like a raincoat and got stuck in our teeth.
I lost a tooth and put it under my pillow. 

Rabbit said, “I’m full, let’s go home and pollinate our green castle.”

We saw beautiful flowers and drank nectar. We were tired and full and took a nap and had a dream about a portal and the biggest elephant ear we had ever seen. And we were in the portal until we woke up!