Richard Scarry's Bedtime Stories (2 page)

Uncle Willy couldn’t do a thing. There were just too many pirates.

First, they put Uncle Willy on the deserted island. Then they started to eat his pie.

“M-m-m! DEE-licious!” they all said.

Uncle Willy was furious. He didn’t care so much about the pie. But he needed his boat to get home again.

Then he had an idea. He gathered some branches, some sea shells, and some long beach grass. He wove the beach grass into a kind of cloth.

He tied some sea shells onto the branches and made a ferocious-looking mouth.

He tied the grass cloth onto the mouth, then attached some sea-shell eyes. By the time he tied on a spiky palm leaf, he had made a ferocious
MONSTER!

Uncle Willy got inside. He was now “Uncle Willy,
THE FEROCIOUS MONSTER.
” Look out, you pirates!

The Ferocious Monster swam out to the boat. The pirates were terrified. They all ran into the cabin.

The Ferocious Monster closed the door behind them—and locked it. The Monster had captured the wicked pirates! Then he sailed back home.

Aunty Pastry was on the dock. “There is a horrible Monster coming!” she cried. “He is even worse than the pirates!”

Uncle Willy took off his monster suit. Everyone said, “Thank goodness it was only you!”

Sergeant Murphy took the pirates away to be punished.

Well … Uncle Willy had made the seas safe to sail on again. Hurray for Uncle Willy—THE FEROCIOUS MONSTER!!!

Sergeant Murphy was busy putting parking tickets on cars when, suddenly, who should come running out of the market but Bananas Gorilla. He had stolen a bunch of bananas and was trying to escape.