Serrania Avenue Elementary
Woodland Hills

The special someone is my mother, I feel great when we are together.

She makes me laugh a whole lot, and she cooks good with pans and pots.

She teaches me how to make affirmation, and gives me a lot of information.

She works very hard every day, and still, she listens to everything I say.

She gives me good rules to follow, that's why I am a nice little fellow.

All I know is I am happier whenever I'm spending time with her.

My mother is someone special. Every day I tell her I love her so.

My love for her in my heart is just like glue. Without her I would be very, very blue.

If I Were a Book

By Phillip, 11
Torrey Pines Elementary
La Jolla

If I were a book, my pages would flutter gently in the breeze, lying unwanted and forgotten until someone would come and open me up and discover the story in myself.

I would be full of adventure, action and suspense, full of as many interesting things as a sweet fruit salad.

My readers would be part of me, living as myself but in their own stories where all their fantastic dreams would come true.

I wouldn't need any illustrations because my detailed descriptions would give people a picture-like scene on every page.

My story would be amazing and never before told and would draw readers in like glossy brown bears to sticky yellow honey.

My pages would smell like charred wood, burned by a fire lasting late into the night where the stars and moon were my only companions.

If I were a book….

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