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
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- 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.
October 2012
The Halloween Party
Funya, Age 12
New York
October 2012
I see colorful leaves falling from trees,
and I hear them crackle under my feet.I smell the homemade pumpkin pie,
and I taste the warm apple cider.I feel the cool breeze blowing softly,
and I say to myself, "You made it, autumn."My Favorite Season, Autumn
Heather, Age 9
Texas
October 2012
Daniel, Age 7
Maryland
October 2012
Lilies, lilacs, gardenias, and roses,
Archways, fences, and green garden hoses.
Pretty blue violets and colors that glow,
Red, orange, green, blue, purple, one big rainbow.
So many plants that I can’t name them all,
The sad thing is that they will be gone by fall.The Gardens
Kyle, Age 11
Florida
October 2012
Mr. Dimples
Julia, Age 8
Iowa
October 2012
I have a French poodle
who likes to eat noodles
she sits on my head
and draws lots of doodles.
She draws and until
she sees French poodles
she will never stop
eating noodles and drawing
very, very, very many doodles.Poodles and Noodles
Lily, Age 7
Tennessee
October 2012
My Big Truck
Brayden, Age 8
Missouri
October 2012
A ball
with spikes
on a tree.
When you touch
it hurts.
A ball
with spikes.
Pinecone
William, Age 7
New Jersey
October 2012
Makayla, Age 8
Louisiana
October 2012
I Want to Be A . . .
Cakes are nice
and I like them
kings like to eat them
everyone likes cakesMy favorite kind of cake is vanilla
a cake has frosting
kids love cake
everywhere people are making cakes
remember to take them home.Caroline, Age 6
South Carolina
October 2012
Isaiah, Age 12
Pennsylvania
October 2012
BlitzyFieryDangerousThunderRoaring like aLionBoom Boom bamThunder
Matisse, Age 9
Vermont
October 2012
Talent Show
Tula, Age 6
Washington
October 2012
My Dream
Wind blows through the willow trees,
A soft, warm, gentle breeze.
It stirs up the stream, cool and flowing,
A dreamy wind today is blowing.
It meets me on this pony, Cream,
In a lovely, windy dream.
It tickles my nose, runs through my hair,
Ruffles the forelock of this beautiful mare.
It leaves as quickly as it came,
The wind of course, is never tame.
The wind is silent, to my dismay,
But I know the wind will return another day.Malynn, Age 12
Wisconsin
October 2012
Bryce, Age 8
California
October 2012
Pumpkins are ripening,
Tree limbs outstretched bare,
Waiting for snow . . .
October
Rose, Age 11
Idaho
October 2012
Delaney, Age 11
New Hampshire
October 2012
Pumpkin Fun
Pumpkin carving fun
Roasted pumpkin seeds, yum yum
Put a candle in
Julia, Age 8
New Jersey
October 2012
My Puppy Munchee
Joshua, Age 6
Oklahoma
October 2012
Somehow I feel there is a light.
And only the fireflies can control the magic light.
And without the fireflies there would be nothing
but
ever-
lasting
darkness.
Fireflies
Matthew, Age 8
North Carolina