Granny Groggin

Granny Groggin is a humorous fantasy about an old lady who loves spiders and their webs – hundreds of them!  People say Granny has “noodles in her noggin.”  After the spiders rescue Granny from a fly infestation, Granny decides she’s happy to have “noodles in her noggin!”  The story is told in dialogue and narrative, and several repeating language patterns are used.

The story is told as a sequence of events.  A variety of sentence types are used.  Quotation marks, exclamation marks, question marks, ellipses, apostrophes, and commas are used. Bold face is used for emphasis.  Large, colourful display type is used in text enhance meaning.  Humorous illustrations support the text directly and add meaning.

The singular/plural pair fly/flies is used.  Interest words include weave, muttering, grouched, growled, and scowled. 

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