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Our first Winner of the

Bic Literary Award 1999

Childrens’ Charity Network Literary Awards

Winning the Oz kids in Print, Young I’m very disappointed not to be able to
Australian Writer of the Year Award back attend the awards anniversary. I’m sure
in 1999 was such a huge honour and 20 it will be a wonderful night and I hope it
years on it is still one of my proudest all goes well!
moments and something that I will never
forget. Thank you,
Rachael

Ode to Trees

I wish people could understand trees,
Understand the passion they have
for their marvellous planet
Understand the sorrow they feel
when merely seen as objects.
Understand the agony they feel
when brutally slain
Because they are more than that.
They are loving homes.
They are living beings with soul.
They are the lungs of our earth
We say they make our world beautiful.
yet we cut them down

By Ayo Adejoro
Year 8, St. Dominic’s Priory College
NORTH ADELAIDE – SA
Teacher: Ms. Shelda Rathmann

The Willow Tree

As her last breath slips away
under the willow her corpse shall lay
She may be gone and she is free
under this weeping willow tree
Many years have come to pass
and the willows field has even greener grass
The girl’s corpse still lay under the tree
and her ghost from above smiles with glee
She gone and she is free
but she sill misses that old willow tree

By Akshaya Gounder
Year 7, MacArthur Girls High School
WESTMEAD – NSW
Teacher: Ms G Cluff

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