Page 37 - Highlights for Children (April 2020)

Days and Nights

On windy nights,
you’re filled with frights

On sunny days, The red truck
you go and play
On party days, Looks like a fire truck

you say hooray! Sounds like a growling motor
When you go
to bed at night Smells like fuel
You get tucked in Tastes like old grease
nice and tight Feels like a smooth

Aiden Cooper
Age 5 • Michigan candy cane

The red truck.
Daniel Allen
Age 8 • California

Claira Balzer
Age 7 • Minnesota

Frank Gregersen
Age 7 • Alaska

Addison Alberts
Age 8 • Virginia
What should I say to the trees
Because they make paper for us
What should I say to the air
Because it is the breath in us
What should I say to the earth
Because it cares for us

Naman Agrwal
Age 5 • New Jersey

I look through the window,
drinking my hot chocolate.
I watch the snowflakes land
softly on the ground.
Share Your
With each snowflake, the
Creative Work
ground gets more covered
We’d love to see it!
in snow.
Art must be on unlined paper.
Now it’s like a big white
Poems must have fewer than
blanket has covered 75 words. All submissions
must be created by you.
the whole entire city.
We cannot
I hear the sounds Include your name, age,
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Cat and Dog of children laughing. work, so you

Dana Hinderliter What a wonderful sight, I say, might want to
keep a copy. Your Own Pages
Age 9 • Idaho what a wonderful sight.
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Radha Nagrani
Honesdale, PA 18431
Age 8 • New York