Page 36 - Highlights for Children (December 2017)

Your Own

Pages Kaidynce Reafleng
Age 9 • Iowa

The Starry Night

The stars are twinkling
The town is quiet
A gleaming light fills the town
Scattering the love
Starry night
Starry night
The blueberry field is full
with berries
The wheat is overgrown
Rolling hills look like a duckbill When I was once a little girl
The bushes are amazing I went to the ocean to explore
Starry night the world.
Starry night I saw a jellyfish swimming by.
Sara Beth Hart Robotic Pumpkin Man It looked hot pink and it
Age 6 • Louisiana caught my eye.
Luke Cronin
Age 6 • New Hampshire I didn’t touch it. I knew that
it could sting.
So I just watched it. What a
wonderful thing!
Brieana Calvano
Age 10 • Rhode Island

Snow

When snowflakes fall
Cat on a
on a winter’s day,
Chameleon
I go out to play.
Abigail Blankenship Scarf, hat, mittens, Windowsill
Age 12 • North Carolina coat. I follow
The
the snowy
cat
path to where
the snow sits
Meteors mountains are,
on
which is far. . . .
Flying. Fast. Thunderlike.
I climb as the
Fire blazing. Glowing high as I can windowsill
Black. go. Winter is looking
here to
Reece Beck
stay! for
Age 7 • California
anything.
Lulu Dwyer
Age 8 • California
36 DECEMBER 2017 Jace Anderson
Age 7 • Wisconsin