Singapore MOE Primary English

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — A child imagines living in a tree stump, ready to emerge and dance like moonlight over meadows, finding home in the earth itself.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — A child's declaration of eternal play extends from day to night through cosmic destruction, flying cars, and the world's last light being blown out after a thousand years.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — Saturn leaves the solar system sobbing, returns later transformed—gray, shriveled, solid ice where gas once swirled, orbiting differently.

Poetry·Juliet Del Fabbro, age 11 — A young person resists the world's morning energy, finding comfort instead in rain sounds and the warm cave of bed on a Saturday.

Poetry·Juliet Del Fabbro, age 11 — Cool summer nights become a canvas where stars rewrite the world, breezes snake through ivy, and memory crystallizes into art.

Poetry·Juliet Del Fabbro, age 11 — A young person stands at the edge of a swimming hole, heart racing with summer adrenaline, before finally dropping into the dark blue water below.

Story·Bo-Violet Vig, age 13 — A girl wakes on her thirteenth birthday to find her family has forgotten, but they quickly orchestrate a do-over when they realize their mistake.

Poetry·Isabel Goodey, age 11 — A child observes birds soaring through clouds and returning to birdhouses where they know they're free, celebrating their joyful sounds and movements.

Story·Harper Fortgang, age 11 — A girl faces sexist taunts when joining the Boys' Chess Club but wins over her teammates by reframing their shared experiences of exclusion and leading them to victory.

Story·Leon Antonov, age 12 — After a killer whale destroys his research ship, a marine biologist and his pet cormorant survive on a deserted island until they can build a raft to escape.