The Monkey Ballerina

                                                 To Abigail: The original Monkey Ballerina 


Once upon a time there was a little monkey who wanted to be a ballerina. Because her name was Clumserina she was very clumsy.  She belonged to the Monkey-Wunky-Dunky family. She had one hundred sisters and one brother.
One day she found a cave. She decided to teach herself ballet there because at home she slipped on a banana peel and bruised her bum! She tried to do a spin at least thirty times but every time she fell on her bum.
“I need a drink of water!” she said. “But first let me try one more pirouette.”
Unfortunately, she fell and twisted her ankle.  She felt really sad and she began to cry.
“I’ll never be a ballerina!” she sobbed.
Suddenly, she heard a really squeaky voice that almost cracked her ears. She saw hundreds of tiny sparkles dancing before her eyes. Then, she saw three pretty fairies in front of her: The biggest was blue, the middle biggest was purple and the smallest was yellow.
“There, there dearie, don’t flood the place!” said the biggest fairy.
“I don’t know how to swim!” squeaked the smallest fairy.
“Umm you can fly, Tillie.” said the middle fairy.
“Who are you?” said Clumserina ,who had just stopped crying.
“We are the Dancing Fairies of Dancing Land and we’re here to teach you how to dance!” The three fairies chorused.
“I’m Lizzie Spinny and I’ll teach you how to spin.” said the purple fairy.
 “I’m Judy Jump and I’ll teach you how to jump.” said the blue fairy leaping through the air.
“And I’m Tillie Tippy Toes.” said the yellow fairy, “I’m going to teach you to use your tip toes.”
“Come on!” said Lizzie excitedly, “Let’s begin! “
“First, stand on your tip toes.” said Tillie.
“It’s so tricky!” said Clumserina before falling on her bum. It took ages, but finally Clumserina could walk the whole length of the cave on her tip toes.
“Good job!” said Lizzie. “Now I’ll teach you how to spin. First cross your left foot over, push and spin!”
“This is too hard!” cried Clumserina as she slipped.
“Keep on trying!” said Lizzie.
It took her loads of tries but soon, Clumserina could spin around the entire cave.
“Well done!” Judy Jump praised. “Now I’ll teach you how to jump.”
Soon, Clumserina could jump and jump and jump!
“Jumping is my favorite of all!” she exclaimed.
“Now try all the moves together!” said Tillie Tippy Toes excitedly.
Clumserina tried them altogether. She was brilliant!
“Bless my dust you’ve got it!” said the fairies. “Now you’re ready for the Banana Town talent show.”
“But I don’t have a thing to wear.” said Clumserina.
“We can fix that!” said Lizzie Spinny. All of a sudden, a beautiful pink, sparkly dress appeared out of nowhere.
“Oooh!” said clumserina, her eyes widening.
“Now you’re ready” said the fairies.
At the talent show, CLumserina was very nervous.
“It’s your turn.” whispered Tillie.
Clumserina spun and twirled and did the spinny tippy toes jump. She landed on her tippy toes with a lovely flourish.  She was very happy and the crowd clapped and cheered.
“Well done!” exclaimed the fairies. “You’re the best ballerina in the world.”
 “And the winner is...Clumserina!” shouted the presenter. “And I think you should be known as Bananarina because you aren’t clumsy anymore.” He handed her bouquet of bananas. “You are the best ballerina in Banana Town!”
“It’s all thanks to my fairy friends.” said Clumserina. The fairies beamed proudly.
Clumserina- or should we say, Bananarina- lived spinnily, tippy toesily, jumpily ever after.
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