Travelling
Genevieve Le Chan

The enduring world is in our hands,
I see the vibrant shades of this land,
 
I went to Patagonia and saw a natural wonder,
When thunder towered the city I thought the world would sunder.
 
I went Alaska where hikers climb,
Orcas fly and I can’t keep track of time.
 
I went to Kenya, dripping with sweat,
Animals and plants were all that I met.
 
I went to Venice where rivers circle the town,
At dusk and dawn it’s as gold as a crown.
 
I went to Switzerland and climbed the tallest mountain,
I drank the purest water from a natural fountain.
 
I went to Russia, St Pertersburg to be specific,
The view there is absolutely terrific.
 
I went to Bhutan which is very small,
And saw the dragon king behind the stone wall
 
I went to the Land Of The Rising Sun,
It is busy but also very fun,
 
I went to The Congo and became soaking wet,
The natives are so different to the Aussies I met.
 
I went to New Zealand, North and South,
And put sweet delicious Kiwi’s in my mouth.
 
I went to Samoa’s forest with pockets of blue,
I felt the fresh water slip through my shoe.
 
Our lands are separated by borders,
Without them all could be in order. 
   

It all started one night, similar to any other. The wind howled, crashing against the windows of a small cottage, rain poured down, splashing over the village. The next morning it would seem like the whole world was drenched. Autumn looked out the window, shivering slightly as a breeze rushed past. It was late but she knew she would not be able to get back to sleep, so she stepped outside, smelling the fresh air. At that moment a hand, bony and strong, gripped her ankle tightly, she jumped slightly. The hand continued to grasp her ankle, pulling her away from the house. Autumn stood on one leg violently shaking the other until a creature flew off, it was small but surprisingly vicious, as it sailed through the air it gave a quick snarl before falling to the ground, winded. There was a flutter of wings as it tried to fly onto her shoulder. Autumn ran back inside to her house deciding not to investigate.
     When Autumn awoke the next morning, she knew something wasn’t right, it took her a few moments to process her nightmare. But was it a nightmare or had it actually happened? This question troubled her for a while and after that she was still not sure. Autumn made herself some breakfast, then sat and ate as she thought. She frowned, puzzled, where were her parents? They were usually up by now.
     Autumn went to her parents’ room, leaving her breakfast half finished. What lay before her was utter chaos, feathers from the pillows were everywhere, the mattress was torn to shreds, strange powder that looked something like fingerprint dust was heaped on the floor, and the ornamental swords that hung above the doorway were gone, but what worried Autumn most was the blood, a large puddle of crimson liquid, there was just too much of it, her parents must be dead or seriously injured. Autumn collapsed on the floor, horror stricken, and then her mind returned to the creature… A fox kills all the chickens even if it doesn’t eat them all. It hit her that the creature must have been trying to kill her last night, and that it had similar traits to a fox. Her parents’ room was a kind of proof that that the creature did exist and it wasn’t just part of a dream or her imagination.
     Autumn decided that the only way to relieve her anxiety and the empty feeling inside her stomach was to investigate further, she knew that there were books, many books on animals in the family library. Maybe if this creature had been spotted before, it might be recorded in one of the books. Whether it was or not, Autumn knew she would release revenge on the creature for possibly murdering her parents.
     Autumn stood up shakily, hoping each book in the library was still intact and that the creature hadn’t got to any of them. She walked up the long winding stairs, towards the attic where the books were stored, terrified at what would await her, she pushed hard on the door, nothing, then remembering you had to pull, she pulled, but to her horror it was stuck fast, the tool-shed was the only answer.
     Autumn ran downstairs charging into the front door. Trying violently to push it open. But it didn’t open, it was locked. Autumn tried to think of a way to escape from the house to the tool-shed to find some tool that might open the library but she could think of no such escape route. “I know the windows won’t open” she said to herself “I can’t smash them they’re made of bulletproof glass; how else could I escape?” no other ideas emerged. A shadow scuttled across the floor before disappearing from view, it was the creature…
     Autumn, armed with a kitchen knife, stood terrified, eyes scanning back and forth. She was sure the creature was somewhere, hiding, waiting for her. the creature appeared again, out of nowhere, it seemed. The creature ran towards Autumn, its bony hand once again clutched her ankle, tugging on it leading Autumn somewhere unknown. Through the kitchen into Autumn’s own room, there on her desk was a note [it had been there the whole time but she hadn’t noticed it].

Autumn,
I am sorry I didn’t tell you this myself, but you were asleep and I didn’t want to wake you. Last night, after you were in bed, I cut my arm badly, and am in hospital. The front door is locked, as is the library door, your mother is in there working, if there is anything you need just knock on it.

So, my parents mustn’t be dead, Autumn realised. The blood in their room must be from my father’s arm “but what about the ripped mattress and the feathers from the pillows?” She said this part aloud, and the creature looked up at her guiltily. “So, it was partly you,” she said to it “sorry I blamed you for all of it”.
     Over the next few years Autumn and the creature, which she named Erasmus, became great friends. Autumn never found out what species Erasmus was nor what gender. Erasmus was sometimes like a dog though much more intelligent, Erasmus could understand everything that Autumn said. Erasmus was always there no matter what, whenever anything bad happened Erasmus would appear from nowhere, even at school.
     Unknown to Autumn her father had gone somewhere quite different to hospital, and her mother was doing something much more exciting than average work; the bulletproof glass and the stuff that looked like fingerprint dust all added up to the same thing…
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Penny & Liam’s Big Adventure
By Rohan Kinariwala
 
Long ago, lived two best friends, Penny and Liam. They had very different personalities. Penny was the one with all the creative ideas and Liam was the one who knew all his times tables and mathematics. One morning, Penny had an idea to go on an adventure to explore the savanna. Of course, he couldn’t go without his best friend. When Penny told Liam his idea Liam was all for it.        The next week they set off…but they did not know that Penny’s dad was following them.
     They took a long journey through the savanna that went on for 100 miles. But Penny was very bossy and insisted he knew the way when he didn’t. They were soon very tired and very lost. After what felt like hours, they came upon a mysterious cave.
     They decided to go inside to rest for a little while. They had just walked in a little way when suddenly Liam stepped into black sticky mud. When Penny tried to pull him out he also fell in as well. Both of them were stuck.
     “Help! Help!” they yelled, struggling in the mud.
     Suddenly a big crack appeared in the roof of the cave and then a whole piece of the roof came off. Someone jumped in. They struggled to see who it was as the person came closer.
     “Dad!” Penny yelled, recognising him.
     “You boys have a lot of explaining to do,” said Penny’s dad, pulling the boys free of the mud. He then made them promise never to go off by themselves again.

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Lost at School
Sowmya Stvakumar
 
Mum and dad sat me down on the grubby sofa with cups of coffee in their hands.
     ‘Why do you want to talk to me?’ I said politely.
     ‘Well, sweetheart you are going to be starting school next term and tomorrow you are going to have a tour around the school,’ mum said.
     ‘This includes getting to see your new teacher and seeing your classmates for your
new class,’ dad added happy to finally have his turn at talking. A shiver went through my body.
     ‘There is no need to be scared,’ said mum.
     The next morning, mum woke me up really early.
     ‘Do I have to go to this school tour?’ I whined.
     ‘Yes,’ declared mum. ‘Quick, quick, you only have half an hour left.’
     Mum dressed beautifully. She had long dangly earrings and a beautiful long dress which was very bright.
     ‘Mum, this is just a school tour, you do not have to look glamorous and pretty,’ I said.
     ‘I can dress how I like and I want to stand out in the crowd,’ said mum.
     ‘What is all this chit chat about, let’s go!’ yelled dad. We hastily got into the car and drove off.
     In the blink of an eye, we were there. “Wow, that took us about five minutes,’ I cried.
     ‘Yes. You should be happy that your new school is so close to our house,’ said mum.
     There were a lot of people pushing and shoving outside the school. Babies were crying and kids were squealing. It was very loud and frightening.
     ‘Stay with me,’ cried mum, scared that she was going to lose me. Mum held my hand as tightly as she could in her sweaty palms. Eww, I thought, I was glad when my hand slipped from hers.
Suddenly, I couldn’t see where my mum and dad were. I started to panic. ‘Help, help!’ I cried trying to get someone’s attention, tears streaming from my eyes.
     A little boy came running up to me. ‘I know where your parents are, follow me,’ he said and sprinted away.
     ‘Hey, wait for me!’ I shouted, happy that someone had found my parents. I ran after the boy and soon I was back with my parents.
     ‘Oh, darling we were looking for you everywhere,’ mum said with tears in her eyes.
     ‘I was looking for you too,’ I said thinking how careless my parents were. ‘Where were you?’ I asked.
     ‘Well, we wanted to go and see your teacher but then you let go of my hand,’ replied mum.
     ‘So you left me behind?’ I demanded.
     ‘No of course not. We were looking for you. But we are both very sorry and we promise we will never let go of you again,’ mum said.
     I ran up to mum and gave her a big hug. ‘I forgive you,’ I whispered.


Catistars
By Claire Yeung
 
Do you know what Catistars are? No? Well Willow didn’t either, until recently.
     Willow was a panda, she hadn’t won a single gold star and everyone in her village had. Her mum always said that to get a gold star award she had to make a new friend, but she knew everyone in her town already!
     She heard about these awesome star things called Catistars, so she went to set out on her journey to find them. When she got there, there was a huge sign saying SUPER DANGEROUS DO NOT GO IN!
     She said to herself, “Do I go? Do I not?”
    So she pushed a big red button and the cave door opened, she was amazed how the Catistars looked like actual cats.
     She said to them, “Hi Catistars, I’m Willow, how are you doing? Do you want to be friends?”
     Instead, they zoomed off past Willow, leaving a sticky jelly trail.
     Willow shouted, “Come back!” and started crying, she felt like she wouldn’t be friends with anybody anymore. But what she didn’t know, was that this experience was an attack from a Catistar.
     Her mum didn’t know where she was, so she called Willow and talked her through, quickly enough that she snapped out of her misery. She went quickly through the woods and got the Catistars and returned them to the dark cave.
     She got the gold star award for being the being hero of all by saving her town from the Catistars and their spells. Finally she had her first gold star award and she celebrated all night.
 
 

 
 

Zach’s Imagination
by Zachary Wong
 
Hi, my name is Zach. Today I’m going to tell you about my imagination. One bad, bad, bad day I vanished to a big, bubbly river. When I started to drown to my death, I vanished again.
     “What the hey!”
    I reappeared in the Forest of Dreams and I was stuck in a branch. Then I heard thump! thump! thump!
     It was a big T-Rex!
     “Arrrghhhhh!”
     In all the chaos, I vanished again.
     “Why does this have to keep on happening?”
     I kept on disappearing and reappearing, it was getting really annoying. Now I was where the rocky stepping stones were at the Bubble River. I went to jump onto the first stone but I failed - I slipped and fell into the Bubble River.
     Then when I was underwater, I saw something glowing. When I went closer to it, I saw that it was a portal. I swam up, I touched it, BOOM! I teleported again.
     “This is the worst day of my life!”
     But at least I was finally back home. For now. Phew.


Lost in the Desert
by Isaac Woon
 
It was really hot when I woke up. I was in a dark sandstone cave in the desert! I felt scared. I was alone in burning desert.
     In the distance, I could see a few granite mountains and some obsidian mountains. There was a rainbow mountain in the middle of the other mountains. I wanted to go, because it looked safe.
     Luckily, I was wearing high tech shoes, t-shirt and shorts with super light, super cooling-warming system for whatever situation I was in. I also had a new travel backpack. In it was an invisible headphones, with a water shooter that shot water in my mouth whenever I was thirsty. There was also some dry food, a mini cooler bag with lots of fruits in it, a jumper, some long pants and a tiny bed with shelter that can grow to its normal size.
     I put on some shoes that can make you run very very fast. I found them in my jumper pocket. I ran towards the mountain. On my iPhone, I installed a special app called Survival GPS. It said that the mountain was like ONE TRILLION KILOMETRES AWAY!!!
     “This is going to be a very long trip,” I told myself.
     Suddenly there was a loud bang. I checked my backpack for a quick snack, an energy bar and a peach. When I opened my backpack I saw a fluffy talking bunny eating my dumplings! I was so surprised that I jumped three metres into the air!
     I asked the bunny was he was doing. He said he was starving and he was tired, and then he galloped away.
     I started running again. Suddenly the mountain disappeared out of my view and appeared right behind me. I changed my running shoes into super light shoes and I put on a jet pack that I found under a rock. It was dirty so I cleaned it with my jumper then I flew up the mountain.
     After what felt like three thousand days and three thousand nights, I reached the top. I climbed through a trapdoor and fell through a portal. There was a colourful light and I touched it.
     Then I woke up. It was just a dream! I was relieved that it wasn’t real.


The Teacher in the Snow
By Elise Pitts
 
One day there was a teacher named Elise who went to the snow. When she got there, she climbed up the mountain. She made a snowman and then thought to herself, “I made a boy, how about I make a girl?” So she made a snow girl.
     She loved the view of the mountain, then she fell going too close to the edge and broke her leg. She went to the hospital, she had an x-ray and she had fractured her leg, so at least it wasn’t broken.
     She was in pain and she was crying. The next day she went home from the hospital and went to sleep straight away. She had a party on that night, but she was in a wheelchair and couldn’t go.
     She had to tell Mia, her friend, “I can’t go to your party.”
     Upset, she went to the park to clear her head and feel better.
     Three years later, she was much better. She was so happy that she could do more and go to more parties - yay yay yay! She did go back to the mountain because she still loved the snow, but she was very careful not to go too close to the edge.
 
 
Ruby and Ben
By Mia Kappadath
 
Once there lived a robot. But this robot was very lonely. Her name was Ruby. She had no friends.        One sunny evening Ruby went to the park to try to get some friends and at the park she saw a … VERY HANDSOME ROBOT! She really wanted to introduce herself but Ruby hadn’t had a bath for weeks. So she quickly went back home and took a lovely shower hoping that the robot was still at the park.
     After the lovely shower she thought, ‘Hmmm I’m not that pretty right now’. So she went to her beautiful flower garden and picked some marigolds and put them in her hair. Ruby quickly drove back to the park. Just as Ruby saw the handsome robot he came closer and said ... ‘Hello, my name is Ben.' 
     ‘Aghh my name is Ruby,’ she replied.
     They talked for an hour and soon they became good friends.

Dolce Dimension
By Oskar MacDonald

One day there was a baby, who, on his third birthday received a wand. His mum and dad told him he wasn’t allowed to use the wand until he became friends with it.
     Unfortunately, Max had no idea what his mum and dad were talking about, so he waved the wand and a portal opened up above his crib and sucked him in.
     He landed on a chocolate ground. He started to cry, as his bum was as bruised as an apple that had been used to play tennis. When his tears finally stopped, he realized that his wand was gone. He looked left and right, up and down but it was nowhere to be seen.
     He stood up and suddenly a gingerbread man came running towards him screaming ‘yum!’ He looked around, wondering what the racket was, and found a rope that was made out of musk sticks. As most babies would, he started playing with the rope, not really knowing what he was doing.
     Suddenly, the rope that he was playing with, which was attached to a gingerbread decoration, pulled the decoration down onto the gingerbread man, who was just about to eat Max.
     A long chewy python with sharp lollie fangs slithered up to Max and bought him back to his lollie packet house.  Max loved his new life with his new lollie snake friend. Every day for four years he ate 100, 000, 000 lollies. He was soon very fat; as fat as a whale shark!
     One day, Max noticed some menus, and he saw that one of the items on the menu was a boy with salt! But he was too late, for the lollie snake had already fattened him up, salted him and just then, gobbled him down.
     In the left part of the belly, Max found his wand! He waved the wand and a portal appeared in the snake’s belly. He jumped in the portal and found himself at home.
     All was quiet; it was the middle of the night. He wondered if it was all a dream, until he noticed he had chocolate ice cream on his face.
 
The Fairy Fashion Show
by Yen Poh-Lin
 
One morning, I woke up and felt all tingly. I realised that there was a fluttering fairy next to me, I was about to scream.
     “Ssshhh,” said the little fairy, before I could scream.
     I was about to say something but before I could, the little fairy started talking again!
     She said, “my name is Florence.”
     I was still tingling but more furiously than ever, all of a sudden I shot down to Florence’s size and I stopped tingling.
     “Ahhhhh!” I screamed in a squeaky voice, once I had found it.
     Florence continued, “Tonight is the fairy fashion show, and a human is a sign of pure luck. So I am bringing you to Fairyland to go to the fashion show.”
     As she was saying show she did a loop the loop; “you are a guest of honour!”
    She waved her wand and we were whisked off to Fairyland. When we got to Fairyland, we landed in Florence’s toadstool house.
     Florence held out a beautiful aqua dress, “this morning while you were asleep I got you this!”
     “I love it,” I exclaimed.
     “Go change into it,” said Florence.
      I went to change into my new dress. Then we did each other’s hair, Florence put pearls in my hair and I put flowers in hers.
     At noon the carriage arrived to take us to the fashion show, it was pulled by eight rainbow unicorns. We hopped in the carriage and it whisked us off to the fashion show.
     At the fashion show the fairies showed off their designs. Then the Fairy King and Queen went on stage and asked me to come up. When I came up there was a loud round of applause.
     When it was finished, we went back to Florence’s house, she thanked me with a snack of jelly. Then I went through the portal back home, safe and sound.
Now every year I go back to Fairyland for the magical fairy fashion show.

 
Imagine
by Isabella Cremasco
 
One dark, stormy day, I was walking in The Mountains of Despair. I was wearing two gloves and a big beanie. Because it was so cold, my fingers were nearly frozen. But at least I was wearing a large warm jacket.
     Then I walked down the rocky stepping stones. They were really wobbly and I fell into The Bubble River. Then I started to swim to shore. When I got out of The Bubble River, I was soaking wet.
     I saw a dry towel sitting on a bunch of beautiful blossoms. I walked to the botanical blossoms. I took the towel and I thought to myself that it was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
     Behind the blossoms I saw a purple door. I walked to the door and I opened it and I saw my whole family.

 
Horrorland
By Leonidas Tiras
 
I was at home playing a cool, awesome video game called Fizz Popper. When you drink it, you go flying in the sky like a rocket. It is magnificent!! The TV started to go wrong, it said “good bye”. I did not understand what the amazing TV said to me.
    I teleported into a deep, bubbly river. I think it was made of Fizz Popper, suddenly there was a big shape of an enormous monster. It came out, it was a massive giant called Gus. It tried to eat me but I dove down and drank the bubbly water, I started to fly. I flew all the way to a blossom park.
     I remember there was a game called Botanical Blossom. It was amazing. There were garden gnomes coming up from the ground, then the night of the living dummy came out with his friends.
     I ran into the forest as fast as I could, they were chasing me. I saw a pack of wolves chasing me as well, then I tripped over a twig and fell into a field of blossoms.
     When I woke up, I was in bed sleeping quietly. I hope it never happens again!
 
 
Musical Tree
By Maggie Harrison

There once was a pixie called Pixels who lived in a tree house in Melbourne.
     One day, the house flooded, so she decided she would have to leave her tree house in the park for a new home.
     Before she could even finish packing her soggy, wet belongings, there was a loud bang at her door, and an angry voice shouted ‘let me in, let me in or I’ll chop down your tree house!’
     But Pixels knew it wasn’t a good idea to let strangers into your house, unless you were totally stupid, so she closed her bag and snuck out the back door. She locked it with a key and flew off to Chinatown to ask her friend if she could stay at her place for a while, until the flood subsided.
     When she got to Chinatown she turned left into the drainpipe then straight down all the way to Pixietown. However, a changeling, the same one that had been knocking on her tree house door, was following Pixel. He broke the drainpipe in half in anger as the magical door to Pixietown had closed behind Pixel.
     The changeling had an evil idea – if he could change into a pixie, he could sneak into Pixietown unnoticed and steal the blue gem, which was the source of all the pixie’s power.
     The changeling sung the magic words and in a flash, he looked like a common pixie and made it through the gate. But Pixels knew she was being followed because she heard the changeling splashing in the puddles she had left in her trail, and she rallied an army of pixies.
     They put on their thistle armor and set off for battle, but they didn’t know which pixie was the changeling!
     Pixel came up with a plan to uncover the changeling’s identity. She knew that changelings are quick to anger, so she told the army of Pixies to start yelling out ‘changelings are ugly and smell like rotten old fairy dung!’ And soon enough, one of the pixies went bright red and, boom! He morphed back into his changeling form.
     The pixies scared him away with pixie dung balls and invited Pixels to live with them in the pixie Kingdom drainpipe.

 
The Magical Giant
By Gracie Luong

Once upon at time, Morgan and Ella Bleau were in their room. They wanted treasure from Bob’s treasure shop. Bob told them not to steal his treasures or he would get mad. So Morgan and Ella Bleau decided to run away from their house and search for new treasure.
     They first stumbled upon Princess Brianna’s enchanted castle. They asked her for the treasure. Princess Brianna said “For Magnus the Giant?”
      “Who is that?” Ella Bleau replied
     “He’s a perilous and unfriendly giant who is always stealing my treasure” Princess Brianna said “Morgan and Ella Bleau, would you come and look for Magnus and give him fake treasure so he’ll leave me alone?”
     They said “Yes”.
 
They found Magnus outside the castle. Magnus asked “Are your names Morgan and Ella Bleau?”
     “Yes” They replied.
     “C’mon, let’s go to the potion rooms in different castles,” Magnus said.
     Suddenly Magnus caught a glimpse of the decoy treasure. His eyes opened wide. Magnus freaked out. Magnus said “Is that treasure for me?”
      “Yes,” said Morgan.
     Magnus grabbed the treasure. Morgan and Ella Bleau followed  Magnus to a dragon’s cave where they saw all the treasure he had ever stolen.
     Ella Bleau said “Can we make a potion Magnus?”
     Magnus said, “Yes.”
 
Magnus said, “One magic potion before you go to Dungeon Town”
     Morgan hated Magnus’ breath because it smelled like poop. She offered to get the ingredients to get away from Magnus’ breath. However Morgan was very naughty. When Magnus asked for frog’s legs Morgan gave him pine needles. When Magnus asked for rubies Morgan gave him fake rubies from the fake treasure.
      Magnus stirred the cauldron. Rainbow smoke came out.
     BANG! Suddenly out popped the witch’s baby, Baby Peter! Baby Peter loved eating treasure. He was very hungry. He ate all the gold coins, diamonds, emeralds, garnets and sapphires. He ate all the treasure in the entire kingdom!
     Magnus was furious! Morgan and Ella Bleau leapt out of the cave and onto a dragon’s back away from the bad monster. They flew home.
     Morgan and Ella Bleau felt glad to be back home. They didn’t feel like treasure any more.

The Evil Aquarium
By Rowan Hiatt

Once there was a penguin called Blaze, who was captured and brought to an evil aquarium.
The aquarium was evil because the animals were not fed and kept in tiny enclosures. He found three other penguins by the names of Johnny, Dasher and Alfie. They all wanted to get out.
     One night, after they had gone to bed, he awoke to people knocking on the glass. He saw their big, ugly faces smooshed up against the glass. They were so ugly, that it forced the penguins to devise a plan.
     The penguins all agreed to jump into the water when no one was watching, which was only in the brief moments when a school tour ended. In the water, they found the drain and lifted it open. A gush of water shot out of the pool and the penguins rode the wave.
     They could taste the fresh air! But just before they reached the outside, they were caught. They were put back in the enclosure and just as the penguins thought it couldn’t get any worse, they realized they pool was now empty, and all because of their attempted escape.
     They made a plan that involved needing to break the glass. There was a spike of ice that Dasher broke off and used to smash a hole in the thick glass that the penguins could jump through.
     A visitor came past just at the right moment and the penguins hitched a ride in his backpack.
After the visitor had seen all of the enclosures and spent an awful amount of time in the gift shop, he finally left the aquarium, allowing the penguins to escape once and for all.
     Dasher said, ‘we should go and see this girlfriend Blaze has been talking so much about’. And they couldn’t agree more. They set off to the ocean where a big current took them all the way to Antarctica.
     It didn’t take long to find Blaze’s girlfriend because she was waiting on the edge of an iceberg. Blaze and his girlfriend waddled off into the sunset.


All About Robo Bunny
By Josh McColl-Jones

Once there was a bunny who was a robot. Robo Bunny 2000 was very adventurous. One day Robo Bunny was going somewhere when he saw other robots.
     The robots were hunters! They saw Robo Bunny and chased him. Then Robo Bunny tripped and fell into a flying car - the doors closed automatically.
     The robot hunters threw a spear at the car and went like “ARRRGHHH”.
     One of them shouted, “We’ll get him next time.”
     Then Robo Bunny flew somewhere safe, and stopped the flying car. But the car stopped so suddenly that Robo Bunny went flying through the window and crashed to the ground.
     So Robo Bunny got up and saw that he was in the middle of nowhere. He ran as fast as he could, jumped back in the car, and went back to his normal land.


At the Zoo
By David Yang
 
 I invited my friends to have a sleep over at the zoo. Then I said, “We all have to choose an animal to share an enclosure with and I choose first.”
     I chose the bunnies because they are really cuddly and fluffy. I slept well that night, so did my friends.
     The next morning when I woke up I saw two rabbits, each holding a carrot. They are giving me breakfast. I like rabbits so much!
     The rest of my friends slept with the polar bears because they are very warm with long, fluffy fur.
     Then all of a sudden, a bunny was born. I was really excited because now it shares a birthday with me. I felt so crazy that I bumped my head on the wall. A minute later, I went to eat breakfast with my friends.
     We ate delicious cupcakes and normal cakes.
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In The Zoo
By Olga Chen
 
One day, when I was trying to get out of the zoo, the door was locked. I tried to get out, but it did not work.
      So I said, “I will find a spot to sleep in the zoo.”
     I started looking for a spot to sleep in the zoo. But I kept looking and finding bad spots to sleep. So I went to the bears’ place. The bear was asleep and it did not stop sleeping when I touched it. So I used its fur as my blanket.
     The next morning, the bear woke up early. The door was unlocked and I could go home.


Introduction to a Chapter Book
Felix Tai
 
I was flying high at dusk, soaring through the clouds, staring at the beautiful view of the sun. spying down at the furthest green trees. On the horizon, I saw other larger wings flapping towards me as I lowered myself down. Other red giants flew into the sky as our fire lit up the skies. Our fellow brown friends came to us from miles away tracking our hot beam of light. Other mystical creatures came from the sea, land and sky roaring the planet to our full potential.
     Every year all the great animals would gather to the imperial palace where the first mystical creature was born on this planet. The animal, called The Wings of Fire, was a Phoenix that flamed our old cold planet to a burst of nature and animals that landed in every land.
     I was one of the fires. I barely beamed the sky as I was learning the ways of the others in my first royal meeting. My friends were watching underneath me as we gathered more animals to the gathering of the year.


Lucy the Giraffe Pirate
Kimberley Choong

Once upon a time there was a pirate giraffe named Lucy.She didn’t wear a pirate hat. Instead she wore a top hat.
One day a fairy from Upside-Down Land passed the pirate ship and left fairy dust all over the pirate ship.A second later everybody started crying!
Lucy had to find out what was wrong but then she remembered the fairy that had passed by. No wonder! The fairy had put fairy dust all over the pirate ship. She must have tried to be naughty.
“I have to find the Fairy Queen. She will have the cure for this!” Lucy said.
Off Lucy went with her backpack, steering the ship through storms and lightning till finally she reached Fairy Land. She left the ship at the dock. She went through the pink gate and then a land of happiness appeared. It was wonderful.
Although she really wanted to get some fairy floss, she knew she had to get to the fairy queen’s castle. So she went on.

When she got to the fairy queen, she asked her for the cure. Then she quickly went back and put the magic potion all over everybody. Everybody stopped crying and went back to normal. Then they lived happily ever after.

Space Shipping
By Ava Paterson
 
21st July, 1976
We’ve been stuck on this weird planet for days. I went to this planet to investigate the weird creature. Linda, Lalya and I were all ready to land. Then boom, clash and crash - we landed our ship but were soo close to exploding. We crashed, half of us were alive, half terrified and exhausted.
     We’ve walked not that far away from our ship. We’ve made a little camp with the remains of our ship. Linda stayed at the camp, and Layla came with me. We were looking for the space place. It had lots of buttons for communication.
     Layla suddenly started running back to to Linda.
      She yelled, “Stay there!”
      So I stayed, and about five minutes later, Layla ran back with Linda. Linda said something was following her when she went to get more parts from the spaceship.
      Suddenly, it came. The one we called ET. It was a robot dog and it had lots of mechanical fails. It started to chase us, everyone was screaming.
     We were nearly at the space station, when i tripped in a big hole. ET was right on me. Suddenly the ground started to shake. I was in the air - I must have fallen in a big air pipe. It suddenly stopped.
     Layla then came up a different air pipe and was next to me. Linda then jumped on to the roof of the space station. She then yelled, “Come on!”
     We both jumped and landed in the station. Linda jumped down and screamed, ET was right there!
     It came closer and asked, “Do you like home? Way home number phone?”
     I gave him my phone number, then suddenly, Linda, Layla and I were at my mum’s work… with ET.
 
10 Days Later…
 
31st July 1976
Now ET lives with me at my mum’s work, in the air vents. We eat white chocolate. Layla, Linda and I visit ET everyday. But one thing never changes, my phone number.
 
 
Spaceship
By Caitlin Arcena
 
I’ve been stuck on this planet for six months. I crashed here on a mission to find a new planet to live on. I didn’t go alone. I went with Commander Lightning and Chief Buzz.
     Our spaceship ran out of gas, making it crash into the nearest planet to it. The impact caused it to smash into a million pieces, so I’m stuck here. My co-workers and I have walked many kilometres since the crash.
     When we were on the ship, this place had electromagnetic fields in places. That’s what I’m looking for, electromagnetic areas to call the agency for a rescue craft.
     I’ve always felt that someone was watching me, and I was correct. Terrified of the giant snake monster, I turned around and ran with the Commander and Chief. As I watched the monster, I tripped on the snake’s tail.
     I tried to get up but I couldn’t. Out of the snake’s mouth was my boss, Donny Donanto. The snake was actually the rescue craft, the ETR, an Extra Terrestrial Rescuer. They found out that we crashed and came searching for us.
     Finally, I made my way back to Earth.
 

Spaceship Disaster
By Charlotte Paterson
 
I have been stuck on this planet for one second and I am suffering. I went to this planet to see what it is like to be on another plant.
     I was with my three best friends, Bob, Oscar and Bobo. They all were pretty, especially Oscar. My spaceship got out of control and crash. I have walked about a metre since I was on my ship and I can still see our awesome spaceship.
     I am looking for a mysterious monster. Two seconds later, I realised something was following me. It had one fang, one eye, two crocodile teeth and one big fat slimy and squishy body. I twas the crocofangeye.
     I tripped and fell. I tried getting up but I couldn’t and the monster picked me up and said; “Where’s Sammie Sprinkler?”
     “It’s ooonnn Eeearth,” I said, frightened.
     He dropped me and an off to Sammie Sprinkler. I ran off and never went back to the moon again.

In a busy mall there was a vending machine. In this vending machine there was a small boy named Mikan. He was a 12 year old boy with black hair, brown eyes and a height of 7 cm. Now, you might think that a vending machine is a boring place, but Mikan had a special little job: to push food for the people.  If he was lucky, things would fall from the sky and land on him, but that rarely happened.  Now back to the story. There was one thing Mikan lived with all his life: LONELINESS.
     Pushing food all day might sound fun but he had no friends. Every day he saw people talking, dancing, playing, or arguing. And Mikan? For him it was just pure torture. All he ever wanted was a friend. One day, as Mikan pushed a Crunchie bar out of the machine, something fell on him.
     Mikan was perplexed. What was this thing? Where had it come from? Like a scientist who had just discovered completely new, Mikan examined the ‘thing’.  It was as white as the paper you are now reading, solid like a brick, but in cube form. Suddenly, it MOVED! Mikan hid behind a nearby Toblerone and thought. Was it going to destroy him?! Mikan had to get rid of the box.
     He heaved the mysterious box over to where the people usually got their food. As the box fell over the edge, for a split second, Mikan saw a white, adorable fluffy ear. A bunny!
     Mikan had thought he had no friends. Now he was going to get rid of one. Mikan looked at the box. It wasn’t very far away. He swiped at the box but missed by an inch! Then some dental floss fell on him. What a life saver! Mikan knew what to do. He tied some to his ankle and flung himself over the edge, only just catching the box. Mikan felt relieved as he opened the box and inside found a tiny bunny. Now every day he spends some time with his bunny, being happy and not worrying about not having friends.