The Blue Fish in the Stream

About This Story

“The Blue Fish in the Stream” is an interactive fantasy story for children aged 9-10, about 8 minutes long. The reader decides how it goes at 5 choice points, and there are 4 different endings. It is free to read on Kitapz, with no account needed.

Age range

9-10 years

Reading time

about 8 minutes

Genre

Fantasy

Format

Interactive · 5 choice points · 4 endings

Language

English, Turkish

Access

Free, no account needed

Characters

Toby, Delia, Fiona, Master Harry, Granny Shirley, The Village Children

Collections

Fantasy stories, Stories for ages 9-10

Reading support

dyslexia-friendly font, bionic reading, color-blindness filters

An Excerpt from the Story

After school, Toby went to his mother Fiona's tile workshop. On the workbench lay an old panel that had come from the fountain in the village of Pınarbaşı to be mended. A blue stream ran into the broken corner at the bottom right in two branches. One stopped at the top edge of the break, and the other stopped at its left edge.

On the day the panel arrived, Toby had drawn the fish in his notebook, just below the big tulip. Now the fish was at the top edge of the break, right at the end of the cut-off stream.

Toby: “Mum, the fish has moved!”

Fiona measured the break and took a photo of it. She had taken a photo on the day the panel arrived too, but she had been looking at the broken edges, not at the fish.

Fiona: “You must be imagining it, sweetheart.”

Delia, the apprentice, was busy with her painting too. Toby drew the spot where the fish was today.

Toby (thinking): I'll stop by and check every morning on my way to school.