Your Own Pages
Every month, we publish readers' work in Highlights magazine. If you'd like to send us something to be considered for publication, we'd love to see it!
We welcome your drawings, poems, jokes, riddles, tongue twisters, stories, science questions, book reviews, Creatures Nobody Has Ever Seen!, recipes, craft ideas, letters to Dear Highlights, and dinosaur drawings, jokes, and questions.
Mail your work to:
Highlights for Children
803 Church Street
Honesdale, PA 18431
Guidelines
- Include your name, age, and complete address.
- Keep a photocopy of your work because we cannot return it.
- Stories, poems, and drawings must be your very own work, not copied from a book, magazine, or anywhere else. Stories should have fewer than 200 words; poems should have fewer than 75 words.
- Artwork may be in color or black and white. Drawings should be on unlined white or light-colored paper.
- Riddles, jokes, recipes, and tongue twisters may be ones you have heard before.
- Highlights does not pay for these contributions.
August 2012
Peace
Nicole, Age 11
Missouri
August 2012
Rain falls
Lightning strikes
Thunder booms
And that’s not nice
It’s called weather
It happens all the time
So it will be all right.Weather
Yene, Age 8
Texas
August 2012
Creatures of the Creek
John, Age 10
Illinois
August 2012
I stand up on the stage,
One hand on the mic,
The other holding Abby’s.
We sing together
Our favorite song
That we’ve practiced
For so long.
The audience cheers
When we stop the music.
The noise is unbelievable
At the fourth-grade
Talent show.
The Talent Show
Kara, Age 10
Georgia
August 2012
My Cardinals
Piper, Age 8
Indiana
August 2012
Pie is good
Pie is great
It’s so much better than cake, cake, cake
Pie is yummy in my tummy
It’s more awesome than a possum.
Pie Is Good
Aaron, Age 11
Iowa
August 2012
The Super Ship
Victor, Age 7
Illinois
August 2012
Summer
Swimming
Up early so I can play
Mom teaches me to swim
Maybe I will go to the beach
Every day is a good day
Rainy days are good days, too.Arianna, Age 7
Nova Scotia, Canada
August 2012
Norwegian Horse
Caroline, Age 10
North Carolina
August 2012
For my dad
This blazing candle
will brighten your day
when I’m in the
Philippines, far away.
If your day is
dark and gloomy,
my present will make it
nice and bloomy.
We love each other,
you and me.
Who loves the other more?
Soon we’ll see.Precious Poem
Alex
Florida
August 2012
Mission to the Moon
Faizan, Age 9
Texas
August 2012
The monkeys are swinging
when we walk by,
while the birds fly
up high in the sky.
The tigers are trotting
along the side,
while the lion king
walks by with great pride.
The Zoo
Bryn, Age 7
Pennsylvania
August 2012
Black Bear
Sarah, Age 12
Michigan
August 2012
Pencil,
dancing and forming words,
armed with a soft eraser,
a sharp point,
and a hard wooden covering.
Gets tired when point becomes stubby,
energy gets restored when it gets sharpened,
and starts to dance again,
forming words.
A pencil’s life is peculiar:
it gets shorter
the more it gets used.
Pencil
Anirudh, Age 10
New Jersey
August 2012
Dylan, Age 6
Maryland
August 2012
Tomorrow will never come—
Always a day away.
Yesterday was never here.
This is what I say:
Today is here—every year—
And every single day.
Days
Jessica, Age 10
Minnesota
August 2012
My Ninth Birthday Cake
Katherine, Age 9
California
August 2012
Remember,
Success was once failure,
Friendship was once loneliness,
Winning was once losing,
Finding was once searching,
Dying was once life,
Success was once failure.
Let it go on.
Success
Luca, Age 10
Iowa
August 2012
The Spotted Eggs
Kaci, Age 8
Georgia
August 2012
A candle, as it softly glows
In the darkness of the night,
A beacon like a scarlet rose,
A light like day so clear and bright.
A candle with its warming light,
A child with his birthday cake,
On top five candles glow,
He leans toward them and starts to blow.
The candle’s glow is gone,
But soon it will return,
That cozy light of the candle
As it will slowly burn.
Candles
Arica, Age 9
Kansas