One day, actually it was a specific day. It was Tuesday 22nd of November 2022. Max's class was having a school trip to the library. It was raining, and all the kids were told to bring their wellies and rain coats. When they got to the library, the children were allowed to spend some free time walking around looking at the books or sitting down and reading. Max and his friend Soan decided to go and explore the library, so they sneaked off when the teacher wasn't paying attention and went to the adult part of the library.
The two children went over to a dark part of the library where the book shelves were really high, almost touching the ceiling. The books were old and they looked expensive and ancient with hard spines and yellowing pages. They got to the end of an isle and couldn't resist touching the books that were about the level of their four year old faces. They moved some of the book aside and peered in. Between the books was dark, but a chilly wind blew in past the books and into their faces. They were very curious so they parted the books carefully a bit more.
It looked dark but inviting between the books so the children stepped through the books and found themselves entering a room, no it was a house, it was a witches house. They could tell because there was a cauldron, spider webs and a black cat inside the house. They were scared but they continued into the house becuase they were curious. It was the most exciting thing they had ever done. They stopped hearing the quiet noises from the library and the other children chattering, as they walked carefully further into the house.
Luckily the witch wasn’t home because she had gone out to do some grocery shopping, so the children looked around some more, they had never seen a witches house before. In the kitchen the cupboards were empty except for some dried frogs legs and some magic popping candy. The house was old and creaky and dusty. The witches bed was very huge with a black spiders web net draped over the top of the canopy. All the witches shoes in the wardrobe were pointy and she had lots of different kinds of wrinkly old hats hanging on hooks in the hallway.
Suddenly they heard a noise outside and a woosh and realised that the witch had just returned on her broom outside. The cat also rushed to the window and looked outside. Before the witch came back inside the two children rushed to get back through the books where they had come through but they couldn't remember where they were. After a quick panic, Max finally remembered and called Soan, they were both really quiet and really quick and stepped back through the books, and back into Hackney library.
When they got back into the library, they couldn't see their teacher or friends from their class anywhere. They were really scared and realised that a. lot of time must have passed whilst they were in the witches house. Soan had the idea to run to the window and he looked out, and luckily he saw his class lined up outside the library.
The two kids quickly ran down the stairs and joined the other children. The teacher turned to them and said, "Where were you two? I was so worried about you." Max said, "we just had to go to the toilet" and looked and gave a sneaky look to Soan who smiled. The teacher looked a bit confused and then said "ok, get ready to go back now, now that we have all the children we can start walking back to school."
Max and Soan were so relieved that they made it back out of the witches house. They sometimes talked about it and how lucky they were to get out just in time before the witch came home, who knows what might have happened.
The end.