Guy fawkes story for children

It's a pleasant evening.

They seem to be building some sort of stabby, torturey… with lots of sharp…

Oh dear.

I suppose that'll be for me.

Shut it, Fawkes!

The name's Guy Fawkes, friends call me Guido.

I've been put here, in the Tower of London, because I may have been a little bit… naughty.

You see, for a while now, Catholics like me have been treated rather badly simply because our Protestant King doesn't like what we believe.

SHUT IT!

So some friends and I thought if we… offed the King, then things might change.

We knew he'd be in Parliament on November 5, so we plotted to blow him sky high with a load of gun powder.

It was called the Gunpowder Plot.

Bit obvious really.

Some of the gang realised that innocent people would be working in Parliament.

They started having second thoughts.

Especially my old friend Francis Tresham, who wrote a warning letter to his co