The Immigrants

By Alan Bagnall. Illustrated by Sarah Wilkins.





Maria must leave Sydney and go to New Zealand to find her father. A flock of tiny birds cross the Tasman with her.

This sophisticated picture book is more suited to older readers because it has complex ideas and detailed pictures which younger children may not get to understand.

By Krish Ryan and Rishaad

Glass Tears

Written By Jane Jolly and Illustrated By Di Wu

 

As Tian threads the tiny beads onto wire stems she remembers her father and sheds for him a glass tear. Based on a true event from the 1940's this gentle story by Jane Jolly has been exquisitely illustrated by Di Wu.
This sophisticated picture book is more suitable for older readers because it has more complex sentences detailed ideas and harder pictures to understand.

The BIG Nikau tree by Sonya

 The Nikau tree has little purple balls that smell like nothing. It looks colourful too. The plant looks like a dead, long plant that is big and hard. The Nikau tree looks like a bunch of snakes because it's long and the little balls that are spiky when we touch it. A Nikau tree looks like a spaghetti ball that people eat. It looks like little plums that we eat.

From Sonya

The BIG Nikau tree by Shaniza

The Nikau tree looks like it came from the sea because it just looks like octopus arms. Also it feels like hard, little purple spikes and feels like bumpy, little rocks. It looks like a bunch of squiggly, slimy and poison snakes. It also smells like nothing but it looks perfect. Lastly it is like spaghetti with little, tiny, mini, meatballs. It also sounds like nothing and taste like nothing, but if you taste it, it might be poison.

By: Shaniza

The Nikau tree

The Nikau tree looks like a octopus with huge, long tentacles. It smells like nothing but has purple beans on it. When I touched it, it was hard and the beans fell off the tree. 

The Journey of Life

Two caterpillars, Kiwi and Grass Cutter are caterpillars who have faced the journey of challenges to finally reached their goal. In two weeks they will become the most fascinating insects on the planet called butterflies. Now, their tiny little friend will have to face the exact same journey to becoming a chrysalis and after two weeks, will become a butterfly. Then it will lay eggs and the journey will begin again.

By Elisha, Rishaad and Krish Ryan 

Leilah's Pic Collage Story

In my Pic Collage I have a photo of my favourite singers: Taylor Swith, Beyoncé and Rihanna. I also have a photo of my best friend forever Jazmine. I put a BFFS sticker on her photo. I also stuck a photo of a puppy, because I like puppies/dogs. I also stuck a photo of 2 bunnies. Next to Rihanna I put a Samoan flower because it represents my culture, Samoa. Underneath the Samoan flowers there is a photo of a sign that says I love netball. Next to it is a beautiful island that is in Samoa. On the bottom is the Walking Dead sign because it's my favourite horror episodes. In the next box I have a photo of butter chicken because it's my favourite food, also Burger King is my favourite food. Coka Cola is my favourite drink.