Page 8 - Oz Kids in Print, Issue 1, 2020

Cupcake Gets Rescued

One day the baking woman comes over When the light was very bright, it switched
to her shelf. The five crumbs jump on off and voice came. Nothing or nobody had
to Cupcake, afraid that their mother this voice. It was Magic Cake!
would have to go without them.
Every night Magic Cake rescued bakery
Cupcake was worried. This was so food and released them into the garden.
unusual. The baking woman begins Today, it was Cupcake and the five crumbs!
to talk. She says, “Someone is coming
to order you tomorrow”. “hop on”, Magic Cake instructed. “I’m
rescuing my own self too!”
Then she left the room.
Cupcake held the five crumbs carefully
Cupcake was now too worried. She looked and hopped onto Magic Cake. They drifted
all around the bakery. There was only one through the window into the garden.
cake, the magic cake. Finally they were free from danger.

UPCAkE is a small browny white That night, Cupcake couldn’t sleep. The ThE END
cupcake. She sits on a high wooden thought of soon being eaten was too bad.
Cshelf. She lives in a humongous She held the five crumbs tightly so they By Nethya Wijesekera
bakery. wouldn’t get left behind. Year 2, Highfields Prep. & Kindergarten School
LINDFIELD – NSW
Cupcake is a mother to five small cake At midnight, a glow came from the shelf Teacher: Fiona Dundas-Smith
crumbs. where Magic Cake sat. The glow became
brighter and closer to Cupcake. She
Cupcake is lonely on this high shelf. She wondered if help was here.
hopes somebody will come rescue her
before she gets eaten.

The Preserver

of Time

glancing at the unfamiliar scene, she became anxious
She sensed the smell of chimneys, infusing smoke into the air.
Carriages and horses trotted past like royalty,
Whilst toothless workers and buck-toothed children flashed a grin.
Women were shouting through the street’s narrow bend,
And children were sprinting as fast as windy flames devour.
The warm azure of the sky, contrasted with the dull grey of the town
Appearing as though a border was placed between the Earth and heaven
Still, the world felt foreign, the lively sight made her feel disconnected
But during it all, the vast rippled sea welcomed her into the world,
The waves were rumbling, folding into one another
Each swell of the sea was enough to rock the fishing boats.
The ebbing tide, crawling onto the sandy shore
Although the world was unlike hers,
The sea was emitting a sense of power and connection,
The sea formed the relationship between both worlds,
The sea remains the preserver of time.

By Sophie Luo
Year 6, Ravenswood School for Girls
GORDON – NSW
Teacher: Sharon Shapiro

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