Young Southern Student Writers-Winners of 2013

couch. Me and my sister Hook had to take a bath because we smelled like dirty pirates. When we got done with our baths we watched a movie, ate some popcorn and made up some plays and did them in front of our family. My pirate sister always makes me fly in the air like Peter Pan and she slings me around and lets me do tricks and flips. My Grandma, Grandpa, Mom and Dad just sit on the couch and watch us pretend and makeup things and laugh at us because we are funny. We believe we are pirates again and we are jumping over furniture so the mean shark will not bite our feet and catch us. The pirate Sassy and Tinker Bell help us get away from the shark. We have to tell Grandma and Grandpa not to put their feet on the floor or the shark will bite them. We throw some popcorn down at the shark, but the pirate Sassy and Tinker Bell start eating it and running wild and getting hyper again. We have to put pillows down on the floor so Grandma and Grandpa can walk across and leave without the shark getting them. It is getting late and pirate mom tells us to go get ready for bed. My pirate sister brushes her teeth and I brush mine, we give Sassy the pirate and Tinker Bell Gizmo a kiss goodnight. Pirate mom comes upstairs and tucks us in bed and we tell her our story about the pirate ship and how we found the candy treasure. We told her about how Gizmo was Tinker Bell and Sassy was a huge pirate with big white teeth and how my American Girl Doll was a good pirate named “Pat”. My sister was a mean pirate named Hook with a patch over her eye and Tinker Bell Gizmo had to turn her into a shark with magic sprinkles so she would not eat my cookies or drink any of my Capri Sun. I told her how the hot sun was melting my chocolate chips on the cookies and about us looking for the candy treasure. It was getting late and mom kissed us goodnight and went down stairs. I snuck out of bed and went into my sisters’ room we started laughing about how Grandma and Grandpa walked on top of the pillows and Grandpa almost fell into the water.

Ella Canter Kindergarten Silverdale Baptist Academy 7236 Bonny Oaks Drive, Chattanooga, TN 37421 Mrs. Espy

The Little Dinosaur

Once upon a time, there was a dinosaur. He was a little dinosaur and he wanted to go on an adventure. But he was too little to go on an adventure. When he turned five he could go on it, but he was just three. And then his parents came to him and then they said to him, I think I heard you say that you wanted to go on an adventure. So then they decided to let him go even though he was three. He was so excited that since he was so good he got a souvenir so he used it how he should. And then ten years later there was an avalanche. Water was after the avalanche. And then there was a bank robber. And so the bank robber took the dinosaur’s souvenir away. And so he was so sad that when he went to bed his dad went out and got the souvenir while the robber was asleep. The souvenir was a Thomas toy. And since his dad got it back, he was so excited that he exploded and his parents were 7