The Australia Times - Kids magazine. Volume 3, issue 4

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April 2015

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KIDS ACTIVITIES 4++

COLOURING EASTER EGGS 5

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GRID DRAWING 13

KIDS STORY 7++

THE EASTER BUNNY THAT LAID AN EGG 27

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KIDS STORY 10++

DREAM ON KELLY: MEET THE KELLY’S 47

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Welcome to the April 2015

issue of The Australia Times

Kids magazine.

In this issue, we have

colouring Easter eggs and

grid drawing activities.

Besides this, we have a story

from Rowville Aspiring Writers,

Marlene Smith with her lovely

Easter story. We also have

another story for older children

from Al McCartan titled

Dream on Kelly.

Enjoy the magazine and

Happy Easter!

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Mitochondrial disease (mito) can

affect any organ in anyone of any age.

www.amdf.org.au

It is often terminal; there is no cure and

few effective treatments exist.

One Australian

child born each

week will develop

a severe or life-

threatening form

of mito.”

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Easter is nearly here! Whoopee! Claudia

was soooo excited!

Every year since she could remember,

Mum and Dad had lined up chocolate eggs

and chocolate bunnies all in a row on the

small sideboard by the front door. Every

time Claudia came home from school, she

would stop and count these goodies, which

somehow magically seemed to increase

every few days. This display lasted for up

to a week before Easter and no longer.

Mum knew that the children were fit to

burst by the end of the week and would

wait a day longer.

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Claudia had just celebrated her fifth

birthday and this particular Easter was

going to be extra special. There was going

to be an Easter egg hunt in the garden

early on Sunday morning. Claudia had

never had this wonderful treat before

as her mother was waiting for her to be

old enough to look after her little brother

as they wandered around the very big

garden behind the house, looking for the

eggs.

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On Sunday morning, Claudia held brother

Toby’s chubby little hand in one of hers

and a small basket in her other hand. Mum

made sure the garden gate was locked

and waved to them on the door step as

Claudia dragged little Toby up the garden

path and disappeared behind a bush. It

didn’t take long before Claudia found one

egg under the small bush, then another

in the flower bed, then another under

the bird bath. “Eggee” shrieked little Toby

clutching an egg far too big for his small

hand. It rolled away and brother and

sister, laughing happily, ran after it. Soon

Claudia’s little basket was nearly full of

beautiful eggs; gold eggs, multi-coloured

eggs, big eggs, small eggs, hollow eggs and

eggs with yummy centres.

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Claudia and Toby went inside and obediently

placed the eggs they had found on the

sideboard. When they sat down at the kitchen

table Toby had an egg and a chocolate bunny

by his cereal bowl and Claudia found a single

large egg by the side of a cute yellow knitted

chicken.

“Gosh”, said Claudia, “It looks like the chicken

has laid the egg”.

Toby was not to be outdone. “See, bunny

wabbit has made an egg too”.

The whole family laughed.

Dad swooped down and gave both his

children a big hug and said, “Well, I’m off to

get the Sunday paper. Make sure you don’t

eat all the chocolate eggs while I am gone!”

Claudia laughed happily. Little Toby was too

busy unwrapping his ‘wabbit’ with chocolate

coated hands to wave back.

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MEET THE KELLY’S

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My name is Stollery Kelly - why Stollery? Well, I was

named after my grandma, on my Mum’s side. Her

name is Mrs. Annabelle Stollery.

I’m eleven, almost 12, and in my last year of primary

school. I’m going up to high school next year. The only

problem is my sister. She’s also named Annabelle

and at the same high school as well. So I won’t be able

to have fun or fudge homework, on account of her

girlfriends dobbing me in to Annabelle and Annabelle

dobbing me into Mum and Dad.

I guess she’s okay, for a girl. And if she wasn’t my

sister, I’d say she was drop dead gorgeous - I heard

a guy say that on TV once. Annabelle sort of looks

like that redheaded lady on

McLeod’s Daughters

Simmone Jade someone.

My Dad, Richard, is a computer nut and works - no,

he is the manager of the local bank, here in Shelby.

Mum, that’s Lisa to her friends, she’s the local Avon

lady and reckons when she makes Area Manager

she’s going to shout us all on a trip to Movie World, in

Queensland. Dad reckons all the money had better be

in his bank, or else. Mum knows he’s joking of course,

it’s a given - heard that on TV too, unless you want to

travel into Goldtown, an hour away, ours is the only

bank around these parts.

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We live in a town called Shelby, only a small place and

just three hours from Sydney. Goldtown, our nearest

large centre, is just an hour’s drive away.

It was so cool, when Shelby got a mention on

Getaway

Jennifer Hawkins, she was Miss Universe, came

out to do the story. Now, if she were our teacher,

we’d all be on time with our homework. Annabelle

reckons Jennifer’s all right, but she’d rather have

Tom Williams, as if. So! What’s so good about a bloke

taking off his shirt on some stupid dancing show?

Anyway, there were TV crews everywhere. They’re

a funny mob, all the girls calling each other darling

and the guys saying “maaate” all the time.

Lofty Boden reckons the show’s ratings will get a

boost. Whatever that is, on account of everyone in

Shelby and Goldtown would be watching.

The travel books say that Shelby was named after a

Napoleonic War hero, Major General Tobias Shelby,

soldier and gentleman farmer. Land was granted

to him in 1821. His family settled there a year later.

I’ve been to Shelby’s Farm and I reckon the books are

spot on; it’s a fun place.

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School is ok. I guess. It’s only small and only goes up to

year six. Our home teacher is Miss Last, she’s a real

babe

- “Jug Ears” Lewis reckons she’s real gone on Mr.

Avery, the head teacher. My mate, Boxy, reckons she’s

not, because Miss Last is keen on the guy who does the

brekkie shift on radio in Goldtown. Like, he should know,

because he’s Mr. Avery’s son. Boxy’s mum died in a car

crash a while ago, which was real sad, because, Boxy’s

mum was real beaut.

Most of the guys in my class, wished they were real old,

like twenty-five or thirty, so they could date Miss Last.

Annabelle, my sister, would say, “As if.”

My worst nightmare is Cecil Blake - Big Cec. He sort of

regards me as his personal sparring partner, except I

don’t get to do much of the spar. He’s a real big bloke and

reckons he’s going to play Rugby League for Parramatta,

or one of the big Sydney teams.

Big Cec loves footy and he’s always ready to try out a

new form of tackle - on me. Annabelle fixed him real

good once, right in front of his mates, at the ‘burger shop

in town. Stupid wacka now thinks he’s in love with her.

“Dream on,” says Annabelle. She’s always got these

real clever sayings.

Yeah! School’s okay, I guess. But the weekends are

better. We check out the movies on Saturday morning

and play footie in the arvo. Swimming and eeling, in

Fergusson’s Dam in the summer.

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Sunday morning is real beaut in Shelby, for a while I

was filling in for ‘Jug Ears’ Lewis, he’s got the paper

run and delivered all the Sunday papers. It’s an eye

opener to see Shelby at rest.

We live on Chifley Street, named after an old Prime

Minister who once had a cool job as an engine driver.

It’s fun seeing what our neighbours do.

Old Mr. McCluskey is always mowing his lawn. Dave

and Lynne Bryant are our next-door neighbours.

They love to sit on their veranda drinking coffee and

reading the

Sun Herald

. My best mate, Tony Flinte,

reckons they’re Yuppies. No way, they’re real kind

and when I do the paper run, they’re always good for

a two-dollar tip.

Others still sleep in - lucky stiffs.

That is except us, Kellys, at number 24.

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Sunday morning is hectic for our family - I thought it

was supposed to be a day of rest - fat chance of that.

Mum is a Sunday school teacher and Annabelle,

who wants to show her latest fashion to her equally

fashion-conscious girlfriends, were doing what girls

do in preparing for the trip into town. We, Kelly men,

are in charge of making breakfast. Dad’s in charge of

toast making, juice and coffee. And me, I get to cook

the bacon and eggs.

Once Mum and Annabelle leave for church, we bung

the dishes in the dishwasher. We can then relax and

watch the videos of Saturday night’s football game.

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Now my sister, Annabelle, she’s fourteen, going on

fifteen. She never walks like normal humans; she

glides, runs or waltzes. She always turns to Dad when

she gets a new dress, which she did this week. I’m

just about to get stuck into making the brekkie when

in comes Annabelle, pirouetting around showing off

her pale green skirt and blouse, which the saleslady

Bonnie’s Boutique

said matched her dark auburn

hair and emerald eyes.

“How do you like my new ensemble, Daddy?”

“You look like a princess, honey,” replied Dad.

“You look like a horse

Annasmell

,” I said, quick as a

flash. “An’ I hear you’re only goin’ to church to check

on Lofty Boden.We all reckon, Annabelle’s real gone

on him”

“Stollery!” said Mum, a bit miffed, “Your sister’s name

is Annabelle.”

“Yeah an’ she’s Anna

smell

on account of that perfume

them stupid softy Kates use - pooh what a pong.”

All of Annabelle’s mates are in a gang, which I call

the Young Softy Kates. Annabelle gets real cranky

and says, “We’re the

Young Sophisticates

and we’re

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not a gang; we’re a group of highly intelligent young

women who look to the more beautiful things in life

and eschew the common things, like pop music.” I had

to ask Mum what eschew meant. She showed me how

to look the word up on computer and great, it meant

‘abstain from’. Had to look that word up too. “Give

up”. Y’know, looking up words is fun. Dad reckons I

should get a notebook and write down a word I don’t

know and look it up. He says if I do only one word a

day. I’ve got hundreds at the end of the year. I reckon

it would be hard for Annabelle to eschew or abstain

or give up, them stupid chick and soapie magazines.

I tell her, “Good one, Annabelle, wait till they hear you

rave on about your new Guy Sebastian CD, Nanna

gave you. Bet you didn’t

eschew

Lofty Boden.”

“You’ll understand these things when you grow older,”

says Mum. When’s that going to be, I think to myself.

Annabelle began to blush. It was not a secret that she

had a crush on Andy – we call him Lofty because of

his height - Boden, the local policeman’s son and he

was dead keen on her. Lofty is a big wheel at the high

school, he’s a prefect and captain of the rugby team,

and is studying like crazy so as he can go to the Police

Academy at Goulburn.

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Now when a guy gets a crush on a girl, he doesn’t

want the whole world knowing about it. Yeah, so I

am real sweet on Linda Flinte, Tony’s beaut sister. No

way’s known is Annabelle and the rest of her soppy

girlfriends going to know, so they can heap stupid girl

stuff on me. No way.

Linda really wants to be a TV actress, in fact, she’s

written to

Home and Away

and to Simmone Jade

from

McLeod’s Daughters

on what does she need to

do. Kate, who was in

Home and Away

and Simmone

Jade sent her nice letters and some beaut photos.

Tony made some copies on his computer, now all the

guys in our gang have got one of each.

It’d be bad enough if my mates got wind of me liking

Linda Flinte. So, in the interest of the Kelly pride and

to show that I didn’t give a hoot for Linda. I resorted

to my secret weapon, a joke, at poor Linda’s expense.

We call her

Linda The Cinder

at school. “Whaddya

reckon Dad? Linda The Cinder wants to be a television

soapie star.” Imagine this.

The winnah of worst

actress goes to …Lindah The Cindah

Then, I hit them with the punch line.

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“Hey. Knock, knock, who’s there?

Linda,

Linda who?

Linda hand.”

Dad reckoned that was a hoot. Mum and Annabelle,

weren’t laughing. I’m beginning to think girls don’t

have a sense of humour.

Annabelle butted in: “You can talk,

insect

. I saw Linda

Flinte’s name written on

your

school bag with a couple

of hearts, and I saw an e-mail

you

wrote to Tony Flinte

asking when Linda’s birthday was. What is more,

parents dear, he asked Miss Last what cornflower

blue meant.”

Mum is still in dreamland.

“Linda’s a lovely girl and

aren’t

her eyes blue,” she

says. “Yes - in fact you could say they were

cornflower

blue.”

“

Cornflower blue

, Girls, you’re sounding like a soppy

love novel,” says Dad.

Good one Dad, I’m thinking.

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Thinking she’s real smart, she wrinkles her nose at

me and sticks out her tongue. Jeez, was my face

burning. Then she’s in with the old Annabelle quick

retort. She’s deadly good at that.

“As Ms. McNeill, my drama teacher would say

‘Methinks the lad doth protest much’.”

“What’s that mean,

Annasmell

?”

“It means, little brother, dear, that

you like

Linda

Flinte, as in I

her to be my

girlfriend

. As for making

those inane jokes, pretending you

don’t

like her, well,

they do not convince me. Mother, Father, isn’t puppy

love wonderful.”

“Oh yeah! Like you don’t e-mail Lofty Boden, “Dear

Andrew...”. I’ve seen it,

Annasmell

.”

I think I may have hit a nerve here. Her face goes all

white then red and she turns her back on me.

“The child lives in a dream world”, she says, colder

than the ice in Mum’s freezer. “

grow up Stollery.

Mr Avery agrees with you mum, that Stollery has a

Walter Mitty complex.”

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Yowie! Did that ever hurt. Okay, so mum calls me ‘her

little Walter Mitty’ on account of a DVD Nanna lent

us, after my last school report.

Walter Mitty was this bloke, played by an old actor

called Danny Kaye, who dreamt he was all sorts of

heroes. It’s not a bad movie for an oldie.

Mr. Avery said that I was extremely good at

composition but believed I had a Walter Mitty

complex.

Good old Mum, to the rescue again.

“Stollery has a lovely and very vivid imagination and

who knows, he may be a famous writer one day.”

“No way Mum. I’m goin’ to be a cricket star. Still reckon

Annasmell

looks like a horse and a camel too though.”

“Stollery, Annabelle does

not

look like a horse.”

“Betcha a dollar she does.”

“Mother why don’t you just

banish

this child,” said

Annabelle.

“Stollery, you apologise to your sister right now,” says

Mum and the way Mum said it, she meant it.

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“Sorry sis - but I’m right, horses look with their eyes,

right? Gotcha both.”

“Wrong,” says Dad, “Horses

see

with their eyes - one

dollar to be taken off your pocket money account.

Now how about attending to the eggs.”

Annabelle laughed. “Good one, Daddy”

Despite our little tiffs, I love Annabelle very much

and would fight any guy who hurts her, Lofty Boden

included, despite his size. Oh well, let’s get breakfast

underway. Gee it’s real neat to watch the eggs fall

into the pan…real neat.

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