Young Authors and Poets: A Publishing Contest

First Grade, First Place Winner from Linwood Elementary School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, April 24^th, 2001.

(I used to look like this a long, long time ago)

Recipe for Desert

By

Vincent Ciarlo

(My Grandson)

Bearded dragons and rattlesnakes

Hot dry sand

The hot, hot sun

Mirages could be seen

A cold cup of water is all I need

Hot, hot rocks

Prickly cactuses

Pyramid builders and pharaohs

This makes deserts.