The Nose That Ran Away

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Something very peculiar happened to a girl called Isis. Her nose ran away. And then all sorts of things started to happen at her school when the other children caught sight of it.

It’s all very strange indeed. But perhaps it’s not quite so extraordinary when you know that Isis went to the same school as Katie.

You may recall that we heard about Katie recently, when she got into trouble at school. If you heard that story- or her Halloween Tale - you’ll know that Katie is a witch and can do all sorts of magic.

If you like this story, you might like to trace its origins back to a Russian tale called   The Nose by Nicholai Gogol.

Read by Natasha. Duration 20 minutes.  Written by Bertie.


Loads of people are always saying that Isis is an exceptionally pretty little girl. They say things like, “What lovely blond hair she has! ” and “What wonderful blue eyes!” and “Such a sweet nose!” and “What a darling little mouth!”.

And Isis likes it when people say such things about her. And there’s something else that makes her happy – it’s that everyone at school wants to be friends with her. In fact, she’s so popular that every girl in her class is simply dying to go to her birthday party.

But Isis couldn’t invite just anyone to her party. And especially, she couldn’t invite Katie.

You see, Katie was a bit strange. And not very pretty. Well at least Isis thought so. And she didn’t like the way she did her hair. And her shoes weren’t very nice.

And Isis couldn’t possibly invite a girl who wasn’t pretty to her party. So she didn’t.

But Katie has a secret that Isis didn’t know. Only a very few people, like Wendy and Alisa, know Katie’s secret – but I’ll let you in on it. Katie is a witch, and can do all sorts of magic spells. She tries not to do them too often – or else everyone will soon know her secret.

One day, Isis came to school with invitations for all the girls in her class to come to her party. All except for Katie.

And Katie felt a bit sad about that. Because although she wasn’t best friends with Isis, she felt, well, rather left out. It made her feel like there might be something wrong with her.

The next day, some of the girls were talking about Isis’s party. Samantha said, “I’m not sure what colour dress to wear, but I think I might go in pink.”

“Yes,” said Trudy. “Pink suits you so well.”

When Katie walked past, Julia said, “I expect that Isis didn’t invite Katie because she’s got a nose like a pug.”

Katie heard this and she spun round: “I do not have a nose like a pug !’ she said. “And even If I did, Isis has a nose that points upward – and that means that she’s a snooty-nose.”

But the girls just laughed at Katie and they all chanted :

“You’re nose is flat
And you’re bum is fat.”

Later,  when Isis heard that Katie had called her a snooty nose, she was cross. In fact, she was really, really, really cross, because she knew that there was a little grain of truth in it – and a true insult hurts more than an untrue you. Her nose did point up just a bit – but even so, she still thought it was the prettiest nose in the class.

When she saw Katie she said:

“How dare you all me a snooty-nose? You just said that because I didn’t invite you to my party. Well I’ll tell you Katie why I didn’t invite you. I didn’t want you there because my mum says that your mum is weird and that your whole family is ugly, especially you!”

“I’m glad that you didn’t invite me,” said Katie. “Because I wouldn’t have come anyway. And besides, your nose does point up and that’s because you and your whole family are snooty. Your family is so snooty that they named you after an Egyptian Goddess – and if you look at a picture of the real Isis you’ll see that she had a pointy-up-nose too.”

“Isis is a very pretty name,” said Isis. “At least it’s not a common name like Katie. You’re more common than a tin of baked beans. In fact, there’s nothing pretty or clever about you. You’re not even funny. You’re just dumpy, flat-nosed Katie, with stringy black hair, bandy legs, and wonky teeth. And besides, nobody likes you because there is nothing special about you at all. Not one thing – apart from the fact that you smell.”

And Katie was so cross that she started to mutter a magic spell to turn Isis into a snail – but then she thought that had better not, incase she got into trouble.

So that night, before she went to sleep, Katie sat up in bed reading her magic books. She was looking for a very special spell to get her revenge on Isis. And at last, just before her mum came in to kiss her goodnight, she found the perfect spell for the job.

In the morning, Isis got out of bed and went to look at her face in the mirror. She was just a bit worried because she thought she might be getting a spot on her nose – and that wouldn’t do at all. In fact, she had decided that if her nose got a pimple, she wouldn’t go to school until it went away.

But when she looked in the mirror, what she saw was not at all what she had been fearing. It was much, much worse.

It was her nose.

Or rather, it wasn’t her nose. Because it wasn’t there any more.

Isis had no nose. Her face was just flat where her pretty little snooter should have been. She let out a scream! And then another scream. And then another. Her mother came rushing up the stairs. And then she screamed too.

When they both stopped screaming, they looked under the pillow and in the folds of the duvet. Then they looked under the bed and in the cupboard. But nowhere, could they find her nose.

Then her mum wrapped a scarf around her daughter’s face and took her to the doctor’s. The doctor said not to worry. Isis wouldn’t die because she could still breathe through her mouth. But he said it was strange, very strange indeed. He had never seen anything like it. He gave her a bottle of pink medicine just in case it might help, but on balance he thought it probably wouldn’t.

And then Isis cried. And she cried. And she cried some more. Because she couldn’t possibly go to school without her nose. And she would have to cancel her party. And so long as she was noseless, she wouldn’t be popular.

Because nobody would want to know a girl with no nose.

In class, the teacher said that Isis had had an accident and wouldn’t be coming to school until she was better. When Katie heard this, she knew that her spell had worked, but of course she didn’t tell a soul about it. After school, Julia and Annabelle went round to Isis’s house to see if she was OK. Nobody answered the door, so they went around the back to see if she was playing outside on the lawn. They saw her sitting on a garden chair. And they both saw face. But of course, what they didn’t see was her nose.

After that, the news about Isis losing her nose spread fast around the school. Everybody was talking about it. And then some very strange things started to happen. Really strange things indeed.

When the art teacher, Miss Jenkins, opened her desk, she found inside it – a nose. It was a pretty little nose but slightly pointed up at the end – just like Isis’s. She thought it was a joke-nose that somebody had made out of play-dough. And that made her very cross.

“It really isn’t very nice at all, “ she said. “In fact, who ever did this has an extremely nasty little mind. It’s ever so cruel to make fun of somebody who’s had an accident!”

Everyone wondered who had made the joke-nose. But in fact nobody had. Because it really was Isis’s nose. And when Miss Jenkins wasn’t looking, the nose climbed out her desk, hopped onto her chair, and jumped down onto the floor. You see, it had grown two little legs and it could run. Toby spotted it – and he yelled out :

“Look Miss, Look! Look! There it goes. The nose is escaping! It’s running away.”

But Miss Jenkins didn’t look. She didn’t even believe him. She just went over to Toby and told him that he was a very naughty little boy and that he was in big trouble. In fact, she was going to ring his mother and tell her just what a mean and horrid thing he had done.

Nobody else saw the nose escaping – except for Katie – and she kept quiet. She felt a bit sorry for Toby, but not too much, because she knew that very soon more people would see some strange things. And they did.

When Samantha opened her locker, she screamed so loud that the whole school heard her – because Isis’s nose had been asleep on top of her fleece, and when she opened the door it sprang up and jumped out of the locker.

And when Annabel looked in the mirror, she saw that her face had two noses – her own and Isis’s – and they seemed to be having a conversation with each other. Annabel didn’t even scream – she just fainted. When she came round, Isis’s nose had scarpered – and none of the teachers believed what she told them. They just said that she must have imagined it.

And Toby found the runaway nose once again. This time, it was taking a nap in his lunch box. He was so frightened that he would get into even more trouble than before, that he didn’t tell anyone. He just grabbed the nose and let it loose in the playground where it ran off, no doubt to make more trouble elsewhere.

At the next staff meeting, Mrs. Hepworth, the headmistress, was in one of her flurries.

“What on earth are we going to do about all this nose business? The whole school has been traumatized by Isis’s terrible accident. All the children are imagining things. It’s a mass hysteria.”

A mass hysteria is when lots of people see the same thing which isn’t really true. Like the Indian rope trick, when a man appears to climb up a rope that isn’t attached to anything.

By now Katie had enough revenge. Perhaps too much. And she truly wished that she could send the naughty nose back to Isis’s face. But the trouble was, she couldn’t find out how to reverse the spell. She had found it in a very old book of magic, and some of the pages were missing – including the one with the reverse nose spell on it.

A few days later she saw Isis in the supermarket – well she didn’t actually see her face because Isis had wrapped a scarf around it. In fact, she looked like she was going out in a snow blizzard. Isis saw Katie – but she pretended not to. She felt ashamed that her nose had run away. And Katie felt, well, rather sorry for her, and just a bit guilty.

So that evening she asked her mum if she knew where the missing pages from the old spell book were.

“Oh yes, those. They’re in my desk,” said mum. “But there’s nothing very useful in them – unless you want to charm a runaway nose back to its owner. I had to learn that spell for the Witch Masters Course at University. The professor said it had only been used once, and that was 150 years ago in the city of St. Petersburg when it was still the capital of Russia.”

But Katie said that she liked reading old spells, and besides, you never knew when they might come back into fashion.

And that night, she learned two sets of magic words. Both were very complicated. One for catching the runaway nose. And the another was for sticking it back onto its owner’s face.

The nose didn’t want to be caught, but Katie found it living in the school Kitchen where it could sample plenty of nice food smells. She said the magic words that she had learned off by heart, and it hopped into her hand. She wrapped it in a handkerchief.

And then she went round to Isis’s house. Isis’s mum answered the door and said that her daughter didn’t want to see anyone. But Katie told her that she had important news about the whereabouts of the runaway nose, and eventually she was allowed up to Isis’s room.

Isis hadn’t seen any friends for three whole weeks. In fact, she was actually quite pleased that someone had come to see her – although she hid her face behind a pillow so that her visitor couldn’t see her face.

“It’s very nice of you to come round,” she said from behind the pillow. “None of my friends want to see me anymore – not even my nose wants to see me. It ran off, you know. At least you are no longer the most unpopular girl in school. I am, and I suppose that serves me right for being so mean to you.”

And Katie said:

“You were mean to me. But I was meaner to you. You see, it was me who told your nose to run away.”

“You?” said Isis.

“Yes me. But now I’ve brought it back to you.”

And Katie took out a handkerchief, unfolded it, and put the nose on the bed.”

Isis had to see this, so she stuck her head out from behind the pillow and said.

“Oh Gosh, Golly golly gosh. It is my nose. Oh pretty little nose, why did you run away from me?”

And the nose said,

“I ran away from you because you were boring.”

“Me. Boring? But, but … I was the prettiest, most popular girl in school.”

“And didn’t you go on about it? In fact, you went on, and on, and on, about how wonderful you were. So I got bored and ran away. “

“Oh! It was was ever so mean of you to run away,” said Isis. “I had to cancel my own birthday party.”

But Katie was getting fed up with all the talk. She put her foot down and said.

“It’s high time for you two to get back together. And no arguments. “

And with that she said picked up the nose, said a magic spell, and she stuck it back on Isis’s face.

Katie looked at Isis and checked that she had put her nose back on straight. She had. Then she noticed that while it had been away, the nose had grown a bright red pimple because it hadn’t been eating all its vitamins.

Isis looked in the mirror and saw the pimple. But do you know what? She didn’t even care because she was so glad to have her nose back. The next day she went to school. Everyone crowded round to welcome her back. And nobody minded that she had a pimple on her nose. In fact, Samantha said that nobody would have minded even if she had no nose at all – because there was more to life than have a perfect fact. In fact, being true friends was much more important than how anyone looked.

And Isis said.

“I want you all to come to my party next week. Especially Katie because now she’s my best friend.”

Nose

Stories in this series.

  1. The Witch Who Was Frightened Of Halloween
  2. The Witch Who Got into Trouble at School
  3. The Nose That Ran Away
  4. The Valentine Witch
  5. The Witch Who Lost Her Spells
  6. The Wizard Who Stole Katie's Spells

170 Comments

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    Posted April 26, 2008 at 4:36 pm | Permalink

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    Posted April 26, 2008 at 4:38 pm | Permalink

    I liked this story because it talks about how the two girls are fighting. My favorite part is when the nose ran way.

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    Posted May 1, 2008 at 7:14 pm | Permalink

    I liked the story but it was a little wierd ’cause like who loses their own nose.

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    Posted May 22, 2008 at 2:12 pm | Permalink

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  • girly girl
    Posted May 22, 2008 at 2:15 pm | Permalink

    Something very peculiar happened to a girl called Isis. Her nose ran away. And then all sorts of things started to happen at her school when the other children caught sight of it.

  • girly girlhf
    Posted May 22, 2008 at 2:16 pm | Permalink

    Something very peculiar happened to a girl called Isis. Her nose ran away. And then all sorts of things started to happen at her school when the other children caught sight of it.

  • Natasha
    Posted May 27, 2008 at 1:46 am | Permalink

    Thanks everyone for listening to my stories!
    Love you all!
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    Posted June 1, 2008 at 8:49 pm | Permalink

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    Posted June 12, 2008 at 9:16 pm | Permalink

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  • annabelle
    Posted June 24, 2008 at 6:46 pm | Permalink

    that was funny & strange.

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    Posted June 25, 2008 at 4:17 am | Permalink

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    Posted June 29, 2008 at 7:41 pm | Permalink

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  • Timper Tamper
    Posted July 17, 2008 at 7:26 am | Permalink

    hi my name is john this story is about a boy
    called joe. now how the timper is kind of weord but if you herd the story from the nose that ran away you might know what is going to happen in this story.Joe was a good and brillient little boy but not so ordinare.his mouth ran away. so any way lets get on with the story. “ok sam how did you do it?” said Joe “well Joe this is how I did it” then sam did a magic spell on Joe “mmmmmmm” said Joe are rarther Joe didn’t say it because well his mouth had gone! but Joe found his mouth and put it back on BYE!

  • ali
    Posted August 5, 2008 at 8:45 am | Permalink

    it is very good story bicause it learns to not just take care about your appearnace, you have to take care about your friends and not to be proud of youself so much

  • Anonymous
    Posted August 14, 2008 at 5:52 am | Permalink

    :)

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    Posted August 14, 2008 at 5:53 am | Permalink

    :)

  • tommy
    Posted August 14, 2008 at 5:54 am | Permalink

    :) this is good

  • manhal3
    Posted August 19, 2008 at 1:28 pm | Permalink

    HEY EMO MAN THAT WAS WEIRD

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    Posted August 19, 2008 at 1:31 pm | Permalink

    omg great story! NOT!

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    Posted August 19, 2008 at 1:33 pm | Permalink

    i ♥ that story

  • marta
    Posted August 20, 2008 at 1:27 pm | Permalink

    this story wax so funny i liked it

  • marta
    Posted August 20, 2008 at 1:28 pm | Permalink

    words were spelled wrong

  • rina
    Posted September 8, 2008 at 8:09 am | Permalink

    The Nose That Ran Away was very fony

  • Christopher
    Posted September 11, 2008 at 1:58 pm | Permalink

    I really dident like the stoiy but the picture with the nose runing I laghed nice one well il right back on anothere story well fornow good,buy

  • m-money
    Posted September 24, 2008 at 1:20 pm | Permalink

    did your nose run away u dum dum

  • Posted September 26, 2008 at 9:13 pm | Permalink

    Does anyone agree with me is this wierd?

  • Posted September 26, 2008 at 9:13 pm | Permalink

    or not

  • Posted September 26, 2008 at 9:59 pm | Permalink

    do not for get me

  • Posted September 26, 2008 at 10:00 pm | Permalink

    i am in

  • Posted September 27, 2008 at 4:45 pm | Permalink

    i agreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

  • Posted September 27, 2008 at 9:03 pm | Permalink

    thank you everyone for your Comments

  • Posted September 27, 2008 at 11:55 pm | Permalink

    soooooooooooooooooooooo gooooooooooooooooooood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted October 4, 2008 at 9:25 pm | Permalink

    Glad ya like it.

  • MY NAME IS EVAN
    Posted October 15, 2008 at 12:53 pm | Permalink

    THIS IS A CRAZY BUT FUNNY STORY!!!!

  • MY NAME IS WHAT!!!!!
    Posted October 15, 2008 at 12:53 pm | Permalink

    THIS IS A GOOD STORY TO LISTEN TO

  • EVAN
    Posted October 15, 2008 at 12:55 pm | Permalink

    SUP IM EVAN I LIKED THIS STORY BUT THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE HALLOWEEN STORIES

  • EVAN
    Posted October 15, 2008 at 1:01 pm | Permalink

    STILL MORE HALLOWEEN STORYS AND SOME SCARY ONES TOO THIS ONE WAS WEIRD BUT IT WAS FUNNY THAT HER NOSE RAN AWAYAND ALITTLE BIT STRANGE

  • Posted October 15, 2008 at 8:42 pm | Permalink

    I Think Its Just The Same Person

    Doing Differant Names

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    Posted October 26, 2008 at 12:24 pm | Permalink

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    Posted October 31, 2008 at 12:44 am | Permalink

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    Posted October 31, 2008 at 1:02 am | Permalink

    maya’s dad is fun!!

  • Jenny
    Posted November 8, 2008 at 10:48 pm | Permalink

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  • Stephanie
    Posted November 10, 2008 at 5:36 pm | Permalink

    That was a funny story

  • Posted November 14, 2008 at 11:27 pm | Permalink

    that book was good i hope you keep reading more fun books i love your books????????????

  • Gabriel
    Posted November 20, 2008 at 10:14 am | Permalink

    I think this story was funny because people can’t take noses off one another.

  • Tommy
    Posted November 20, 2008 at 11:43 am | Permalink

    wow that was a very funny story. And very cool to. I have never seen a story like this great story

  • akshat
    Posted November 20, 2008 at 12:50 pm | Permalink

    It was a nice story and funny:)!

  • janelle
    Posted November 20, 2008 at 1:02 pm | Permalink

    the story was lame and funny!
    lame is the noes just CHOP!!! of of Isis face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! funny was…
    HOW FUNNY IS WALKING AROUND THE WORLD WITHOUT A NOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • ARJUN
    Posted November 22, 2008 at 2:11 am | Permalink

    THIS STORY WAS LAME & FUNNY

  • Posted November 22, 2008 at 4:29 am | Permalink

    THE STORY WAS VERY FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    If a real nose came on my desk I would probobly be SCREEMING for the rest of my life or fainting for 6 whole weeks!!!!!!!!!!!
    And if my nose came of like Isis I would NEVER
    go to school with out my nose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • isabel 3G
    Posted November 22, 2008 at 4:59 am | Permalink

    i love this story it’s super Cool! i love story’s about runaway trains but runaway noses are even better. That story was NUMBER 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Richard
    Posted November 22, 2008 at 12:03 pm | Permalink

    It was fantastic and very funny.Pity about the typing mistakes.

  • ADAM
    Posted November 23, 2008 at 2:29 am | Permalink

    I like the story because it had a resloution with detail

  • Ally
    Posted November 23, 2008 at 4:23 am | Permalink

    The story “the runaway nose” was funny and fantastic! It’s the funniest one i’ve heard! when you said Isis had a pimple on her nose, I thought it was amazing!

  • sarah
    Posted November 25, 2008 at 1:16 am | Permalink

    I agree with Natasha. This story was very strange. But, why isn’t Isis in Katie’s other stories?

  • alex 3c
    Posted November 25, 2008 at 12:25 pm | Permalink

    the story was smelly

  • alex 3c
    Posted November 25, 2008 at 12:27 pm | Permalink

    the story wassmelly and funny

  • Evan
    Posted December 7, 2008 at 1:59 pm | Permalink

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  • storynory lover
    Posted December 10, 2008 at 10:30 pm | Permalink

    storynory has become a common thing for us now and my little sister really loves it thank you natasha and bertie and all of the storynory animals

    by the way i like your stories which have the cool sound effects please could you add some more it really boosts the fun of a story

  • Posted December 10, 2008 at 10:46 pm | Permalink

    Hi Storynory Lover,

    Thank you for your nice comment. We like to add sound effects, but haven’t quite got the resources to do it every week. We hope to add more and more fx in 2009. We have some Christmas stories coming up with music – including a bit of Tchaikovsky – I hope you will enjoy these.

  • Angie
    Posted December 23, 2008 at 10:31 pm | Permalink

    Bertie,did really Katie smell?

  • Angie
    Posted December 23, 2008 at 10:42 pm | Permalink

    Dear Bertie,

    I really love this site that I always go into it!Everytime I go into this site, I sleep until ,lets say muuuh OK 11:30pm.
    Wooooh,thats a long time for sure,but that is because I like I mean love your stories.Bertie if I do not get to write to Natasha,may you please say HI to her.May you put some more Christmas stories in my really favorite site ofcoure Storynory

  • Posted December 23, 2008 at 11:00 pm | Permalink

    Dear Angie

    Thank you for your lovely comments. I will make sure that Natasha sees them. Bertie and the Mermaid is set at Christmas. We’ve probably got to wait another year now for more Christmas stories.

  • Posted December 23, 2008 at 11:01 pm | Permalink

    She didn’t really smell. That was just somebody saying something nasty to her.

  • piney
    Posted December 27, 2008 at 3:25 am | Permalink

    I like Isis. It is funny because the nose ran away.

  • Posted January 7, 2009 at 4:16 pm | Permalink

    thank you

  • Brooke
    Posted January 15, 2009 at 5:50 pm | Permalink

    i love this story it is soo funy expeshely whan the girls say your nose is flat and your but is fat and that was the funiest ever

  • Eddie
    Posted February 8, 2009 at 8:44 am | Permalink

    I thought then noes that ran away was weard and interesting

  • Michelle
    Posted February 13, 2009 at 5:00 am | Permalink

    ***Answer me Bertie!!!!!!!!!!!***

    Bertie, tell Ella-rose to stop insulting your stories!

    A lovely story~

    Loyal fan
    Michelle^^

  • Amol
    Posted February 16, 2009 at 7:48 am | Permalink

    Wow this story is weird!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Angel
    Posted February 17, 2009 at 9:59 pm | Permalink

    lol

  • dana
    Posted February 23, 2009 at 10:16 pm | Permalink

    like the aksent

  • Inayah
    Posted March 1, 2009 at 3:36 am | Permalink

    The story was funny because Isis’s nose ran away.I have read another story of the nose that ran away.

  • Ketie
    Posted March 4, 2009 at 3:55 pm | Permalink

    it’s interesting and funny story

  • Chermaine
    Posted March 12, 2009 at 4:30 am | Permalink

    Hmm……very funny!!

  • olivia
    Posted March 18, 2009 at 9:50 pm | Permalink

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  • Michelle
    Posted March 21, 2009 at 6:10 am | Permalink

    ***Answer me Bertie!!!!!!!!!***

    I like this story. By the way, when is the next writing competition coming up? And how do I enter it?

    I hope you reply. Toodles~~>v<

    Loyal fan
    Michelle^^

  • Michelle
    Posted March 21, 2009 at 6:11 am | Permalink

    P.S. tHAT WAS COMMENT 1

  • Michelle
    Posted March 21, 2009 at 6:16 am | Permalink

    COMMENT 2

    Hey! Have you heard this one??

    Q: What is the longest word in the English Language?

    A: Smiles! It has a MILE in betwenn the 2 s’s! Ha!

    Loyal fan
    Michelle^^

  • Posted March 21, 2009 at 8:28 am | Permalink

    That’s clever

  • Anonymous
    Posted March 23, 2009 at 9:48 pm | Permalink

    I love this story it always makes me fall asleep before i can hear all of it. My favourite chracter is tim the tad pool because he is funny.

  • Anonymous
    Posted March 24, 2009 at 10:07 pm | Permalink

    how can isis smell????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

  • Posted March 24, 2009 at 10:13 pm | Permalink

    Dear Anon, I don’t suppose Isis could smell while her nose was running around

  • Brittney
    Posted April 3, 2009 at 9:42 pm | Permalink

    Hi,I love Natashas reading and Berties storys. I might be 10, but I still like fairytails!!!

  • Posted April 6, 2009 at 4:49 pm | Permalink

    This Story Is Crazy Story Waowaowa

  • Toby and Max
    Posted April 11, 2009 at 10:16 pm | Permalink

    Dear Natasha,

    We really like your stories and we hope you record more. I’m learning about fairy tales, so I think you should record ALL of them, because I like them.

  • ilovestorynory
    Posted April 16, 2009 at 5:22 am | Permalink

    this was a kind of funny story! i havnt heard anything like it! :)

  • MrPerson
    Posted May 3, 2009 at 11:48 pm | Permalink

    :p wow! thats a pretty weird, story, i mean a nose that ran away omg. lol, weird is good, keep up the good work!

  • Posted May 25, 2009 at 2:58 pm | Permalink

    so sweet :)

  • Isabella
    Posted May 26, 2009 at 6:53 pm | Permalink

    I liked the story. The nose was really funny. I also liked Katie and Isis; because they were interesting characters. It was really funny.

  • Posted May 28, 2009 at 6:59 pm | Permalink

    this website has been a great help for our VI students at Clara Barton Elementary. They are able to enjoy the same childhood stories I did growing up. I also use this for a student with Autisum and it really calms him down.

  • Posted May 28, 2009 at 7:28 pm | Permalink

    Dear Keith We are delighted to hear that the stories are a help at your elementary school, and for a student with Autism. Many thanks for letting us know.

  • katie
    Posted June 2, 2009 at 10:17 pm | Permalink

    ok i think but i would not say it good

  • samantha
    Posted June 15, 2009 at 10:06 pm | Permalink

    I think the story was good but i think it was funny how they talk in British accentes. But I think people with British accentents are cool.

  • Katie
    Posted June 24, 2009 at 7:47 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for writing and telling about me Bertie and Natasha!!!!!!!
    Katie

    P.S.
    Why did you have to tell my secret? Now everybody knows.

  • leo 6
    Posted June 25, 2009 at 5:14 pm | Permalink

    Natasha ,the story was geat!!!!
    ALL your stories are GREAT!!!!!!

  • zaafira
    Posted July 4, 2009 at 4:24 pm | Permalink

    I liked the story it was nice.

  • chloe
    Posted July 7, 2009 at 4:46 pm | Permalink

    this story is the greatest story ever and its so funny. i know a girl katie and shes horrible to me i think shes a witch shes a bit weird

    I LOVE THIS STORY
    LOVE CHLOE xxx

  • Posted July 7, 2009 at 6:44 pm | Permalink

    Hello Chloe, sorry to hear that a girl called Katie is horrid to you. I’m glad you like the story though.

  • Posted July 13, 2009 at 7:18 pm | Permalink

    he, he, he, awesome story!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love you guys!!!

  • zahra
    Posted July 22, 2009 at 11:16 am | Permalink

    a very nice story

  • Esha
    Posted August 1, 2009 at 1:56 pm | Permalink

    so cool run run

  • Esha
    Posted August 1, 2009 at 1:59 pm | Permalink

    wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo so nice

  • hafsa
    Posted September 4, 2009 at 9:53 pm | Permalink

    this story was so cool i loved it i hope you could right more intresting storys berti are you aperson ore a frog.

  • Posted September 4, 2009 at 10:42 pm | Permalink

    Hafsa, a bit of both

  • sakthivel
    Posted September 13, 2009 at 6:02 am | Permalink

    cool!the stories are all so awesome that you can listen to them all day

  • Posted October 6, 2009 at 6:35 pm | Permalink

    you are awesome

  • Abby
    Posted October 30, 2009 at 12:03 am | Permalink

    I love the story and it was great. I wish to hear it again, again and again. Love me xxx

  • Sweetie Pie
    Posted December 1, 2009 at 7:34 pm | Permalink

    AMAZING,WONDERFUL and FABULASE !
    I loooooove Katie’s atitude and the way she behaves! And I also think that the landguge is fun to listen to! I also HATE
    Isis! I think that Isis is MEAN and SNOOTY! I think that the nose running is very funny!

  • Posted December 1, 2009 at 7:37 pm | Permalink

    Thanks Sweetie Pie ! it’s really nice of you. The Nose that Ran Away is one of our favourite stories. The snooty-nosed Isis improves in later stories. I think she learned her lesson in this one !

  • Cutie Pie
    Posted December 1, 2009 at 7:43 pm | Permalink

    HI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I looooooooooooooooooooooooove your story soooooooooooooooooo much !!!!!
    Why don’t you write more about parts of the body !!!! The star rating is 10000000 out of 10000000 !!!!
    Thanks
    Cutie Pie
    (8)

  • Posted December 1, 2009 at 8:21 pm | Permalink

    I suppose we could have the toes that ran way… but it might be a bit the same. Thanks for the suggestion though !

  • kATIA
    Posted December 5, 2009 at 8:27 pm | Permalink

    i LIKE YOUR STORY IT WAS INTERESTING AND FUNNY AT THE SAME TIME , I LOVE IT ALOT !

  • Terrence
    Posted December 20, 2009 at 8:47 am | Permalink

    is a good story.

  • Posted January 11, 2010 at 6:54 pm | Permalink

    IT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AWSOME

  • Posted January 14, 2010 at 2:51 pm | Permalink

    it’s really very funny story, i like it very much. thanks for all the team storynory and especially for the reader NATASHA. for new stories…

  • jack
    Posted February 3, 2010 at 2:54 am | Permalink

    i lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it!

  • Gladys
    Posted February 28, 2010 at 9:24 pm | Permalink

    i luv u bertie

  • Coolottergirl1
    Posted March 3, 2010 at 8:37 pm | Permalink

    I love the KATIE stories, they are so cool!

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