Walking in the Gobi Desert
Peak School, Rosie Phillips, Fiction: Group 1
A
long, long time ago there was a desert. The desert was cold at night and in the day it
was really hot. There was once a family who went to explore the Gobi desert. It was
rather a large family. There were four brothers, four sisters, one mum, one dad, two
grannies and two grand-dads. The family soon found out that there were not many
trees in the desert, but there was lots of sand.
They set up a tent and lit a fire with a rock and a tree. They rubbed the rock against the tree
to make fire. They were about to go searching for food when they heard something rustling in the
cactus bush. The sisters shouted out “What is that rustling in the cactus!?”
Out came a friendly lizard. The dad started to lick his lips, then he told the others that they
could roast him on the fire. But the lizard heard them talking and shouted ‘Wait! Don’t eat me. I
can help you find food.” They were amazed that a lizard could speak and so they decided not to
eat him.
The lizard followed them back to the campsite. The family was getting extremely hungry and
asked him when he could take them to find food. The lizard said, “Why don’t I go and get the food?”
“No, no, no, we will come with you.” replied the family.
“No, that’s ok, I can go on my own, I wouldn’t want you to get killed.” So off he went to find
food before they could stop him. He ran and ran and soon they could not see him anymore.
The family waited and waited and waited. Days passed and the sun grew hotter but the lizard
did not return. The family thought they would die in the desert as they could not find food. They
kept on walking and soon they found a city and they built a house there. They had a really big
dinner of roasted lizard.
