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.
January 2013
Music
Gina, Age 11
Florida
January 2013
Dancing is like dreaming with your feet;
moving all around to the beat.
I dance high and low.
I dance in the mountains
and at the beach.
I dance everywhere I go because I love it so.Dancing
Amelie, Age 9
Colorado
January 2013
Arnold, Age 10
Arizona
January 2013
Imagine
Wonderful things
Happen
When you
ImagineImagine
Ryan, Age 6
Pennsylvania
January 2013
Owl in Starry Night
Abby, Age 9
Virginia
January 2013
Tiger, Tiger
Tiger, tiger, roar, roar,
sneaking, sneaking on his prey.
Watch out!
Here he comes, tiger, tiger.Anna, Age 7
Oregon
January 2013
Caleb, Age 10
West Virginia
January 2013
I love winter.
Winter is cold.
You can make a snowman.
You can make a snowball.
You can make a snow angel.
You can go sledding
down a very steep hill.
It snows in the winter.
It snows a lot.I Love Winter
Keith, Age 7
Connecticut
January 2013
The Cool Train
Ewald, Age 8
Hawaii
January 2013
Monsters are scary.
Monsters are green.
Monsters are creatures
that make you SCREAM!Monsters
Amelia, Age 6
California
January 2013
Hoatzin
Carmen, Age 10
Minnesota
January 2013
Space Cow
Speeding through space,
Flying with ease,
But with exceptional haste.
Space Cow’s on an urgent mission,
So he begs to have your permission
To zoom away—far away
Off into space.Patrick, Age 11
Ontario, Canada
January 2013
Joshua, Age 6
Washington
January 2013
Sunset
Purple, orange, and pink. The sun
sets over the great hill. People look out
their windows and look at the beautiful
evening sky. They stare for a very
long time. They begin to yawn. Then
they say to their children, “It’s getting
late. We should go to bed.” Purple,
orange, and pink. The sun sets
over the great hill.Stephanie, Age 8
Maryland
January 2013
The Scenes of the Sea
Ava, Age 9
Oklahoma
January 2013
The boat was big, the boat was tall.
From far away, the people looked small.
The captain sailed it into the bay,
And it would not come back until the next day.
When the boat came back, the captain said,
“I think I’ll go home and lay in my bed.”The Boat
Michael, Age 7
California
January 2013
Dillon, Age 7
New Hampshire
January 2013
Ah, weekend after New Year’s,
When school starts again.
You pick up a mumble,
And a frown;
A grumble,
And a scowl.
I find it very strange
How fast some things change.
The grumblers, the mumblers,
And even some stumblers,
Couldn’t wait for school to start
Last year!School Again
Faith, Age 11
Pennsylvania
January 2013
Peacock
Emily, Age 9
Indiana
January 2013
Little cloud, big cloud,
It's about to snow.
I see a little boy looking at a crow.
The crow sees him and flies away.
Hey, hey, it's a wonderful winter day.Wonderful Winter Day
Whitney, Age 9
Texas