We are excited at Amazing Kids! to bring you our issue called “Trinkets and Treasures”. Everyone has something of value. Treasures can be something physical or something that means something to you, like good memories.

By Alex Lam, age 15, Hong Kong

To start this year’s Cheung Chau Bun Festival,
Dancers perched on stilts and costumed in the head and body of a lion
Prance and weave around a crowd of 50,000.

By Alice West, age 17, London

Cylinders of dark water licking, retreating,
Tumbling like laughing, green glass;
Drawing closer to her toes, touching, tasting,
Trailing artifacts of the past.

By Mackenzie Dorsey, age 16, Virginia

You start the warm-up, stretching
Your muscles, so they don't rip
Into 12,000 tiny threads like the guts of an orange.

By Salma Danuningrat, Writing Tips Editor

Symbolism – a necklace, a rock, a jewel, a shoe – any object that represents something else in your story.

By Victoria Lin, age 18, Marlboro NJ

My mother was beautiful. I still think sometimes of her musical voice, chestnut hair, and gentle smile.