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Publishing Work by You & Your Neighbors!We welcome submissions! See page 11 for details

Maze CrazeCan you find your way through theseperplexing paths? Page 14

Picture PuzzlersSee if you can find all the hidden pictures!Pages 4 & 10

ART CONTESTOpen to ages 6-13. Winners will receive a $25 cash

award and have their work published in Flying Ship!See page 15 for details.

In this issue...Games and Activities:

Picture Puzzlers ......................................................4 & 10

Tricky Pictures ..............................................................13

Maze Craze....................................................................14

Stories

The Prehistoric Adventure, by Eric Zhu ..........................7

The Wonderful Wonderfuls of the Sky, by Nora Taylor ........8

Attack of the Snow People, by Jody Kifner........................8

The Boy Who Made Sculptures, by Avery Monahan ......11

Snowball, by Chiara Rothwell-Ferraris ............................12

Subscribe to Flying Ship Magazine ................................8

Submit your work for publication ................................11

Art Contest rules ..........................................................15

To see more great writing and artworkcheck out FLYINGSHIP.ORG!

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Publisher: Mathew Doyle • Editor: Nikki Kendall Producer: Kathy Hardy

All stories and artwork ©2007 by the author/artist unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.Except for one-time personal use, no part of any issue or online content may be reproducedby any mechanical, photographic or electronic process, nor may it be stored in a retrieval sys-tem, transmitted or otherwise copied for public or private use without written permission ofthe copyright owner.

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Flying Ship’s mission is to encourage kids tobe creative and use their imaginations. Webelieve there is nothing more important tobecoming a healthy, productive and activeindividual than developing your imagina-tion, whether you become a carpenter, a sci-entist, an artist or the next president! Yourideas and suggestions are always welcome, nomatter what your age. Please contact us at:Flying Ship Media, PO Box 1159,Norwich, VT 05055 or [email protected].

This second issue has been a long timecoming, and we appreciate your patienceas we continue through these early stagesof development. Over the last severalmonths, Flying Ship has grown fromessentially a one-man operation to athree-member production team withinput from many members of the com-munity. We still have a long way to gobefore we can truly declare ourselves tobe off the ground (pun intended), butwe are making good progress. We hopeyou enjoy this issue—we have expandedit to include games and activities (thanksto Burlington artist Mihr Snyder-Wishingrad for her great “PicturePuzzler” drawings!) as well as writing andartwork by many talented, local kids.

The Flying Ship production teamcurrently consists of three individuals:Mat Doyle, of Norwich, Vermont, whoconceived the idea for the publicationand does the layout; Kathy Hardy, a par-ent from Strafford, Vermont, who servesas production manager; and NikkiKendall, a teacher/parent (also fromStrafford) who is an editor and adminis-

trator. We have also begun to meet on aregular basis with an informal steeringcommittee made up of members of thecommunity, who offer us insight intohow we can better manage Flying Ship’scontent to meet the needs and desires oflocal children and educational systems.Please let us know if you would like to beinvolved!

We face a number of challenges in thedevelopment of Flying Ship. Funding isperhaps the least interesting but the mostimportant of these. Your subscriptionsand advertising sponsorships help keepus afloat! We are also working to improveour distribution. Our aim is to reach asmany children in the Upper Valley aspossible, but that involves a lot of legwork! It is important to us to keep thepublication LOCAL: we want UpperValley residents to see work done bytheir neighbors and friends, knowingthat they have a good chance of seeingtheir own work in print in a future issue.Finally, we are anxious to learn howFlying Ship can function better as a toolfor teachers and educators to encouragecreativity. Our goal is for the publicationto integrate smoothly into an education-al curriculum; it should be easy forteachers to use Flying Ship in the class-room or as part of a lesson plan.

Our vision for the future of FlyingShip Media is broad. Maintaining ourvision of the magazine as a LOCAL pub-lication, additional branches may beestablished in other regions of Vermont,New Hampshire and beyond. Flying

Ship need not be limited to printedmaterial. As a publishing company,future media may include audio CDs ofmusic and oral storytelling, or evenDVDs of dance, drama, and other artforms. The Flying Ship website offersmany opportunities for increased devel-opment as well. The possibilities abound.

As a member of the community, yourfeedback and suggestions are essential tous. Please let us know if you have anyquestions or concerns about the contentof Flying Ship Magazine or any issuesinvolving its distribution and produc-tion. Let us know also if you would liketo contribute in some way, such as adver-tising with us or helping to encouragechildren near you to submit material forpublication.

The next issue is due to be release inearly June, before schools are let out for thesummer. From then on we will releaseissues quarterly, each September,December, March, and June. A subscrip-tion for one year (four issues) is just $12and helps us to offset our printing and pro-duction costs. We hope to begin placingissues in local retail locations soon as well.

Have a great Spring, and keep in touch!

Mat Doyle, Publisher

Abby Lukowitz, Age 7, Norwich, Vermont — 2nd Grade class of Melanie Devoid, Marion Cross School

Publisher’s Note

PICTURE PUZZLERPICTURE PUZZLERCan you find all the pictures hidden in this scene?

Flying Ship Magazine

See if you can find these items:

❑ bell ❑ violin ❑ bunny ❑ bear

❑ bearded face ❑ open book

❑ fork ❑ screw ❑ lollipop

❑ hammer-head shark

❑ watermellon slice ❑ slice of cake

❑ tea cup ❑ horse shoe ❑ banana

❑ pencil ❑ fish ❑ bird

❑ space shuttle

Answers at flyingship.org and in next issue!

Artwork © 2007 Mihr Snyder-Wishingrad

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Snow AngelI like to be alone on a calm winter day

letting cold flakes fall by my feetI let myself fall

and be swallowed up by whiteness.I let winter snowflakes land on my face

that turn into droplets of water—they feel like ice. I move

my arms and legs up and downin the blanket of whiteness I lie in,like someone doing jumping jacks.I stand up and walk into the woods

newly blanketed with snowleaving behind an imprint of me

that once lay therealone

on a blanket of white.

By Emily LymanAge 9, Burlington, Vermont

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SwirlingTwirling

The snow fallsIt goes in circles around

Children playing in itFun building a snowman

Soft and sometimes icy.

By Sarah MacCormick, Age 8Norwich, Vermont

2nd Grade class of Melanie DevoidMarion Cross School

Snow HaikuSnow slips off the roof

Piling snow in the backyardIt piles very high

By Avery Monahan, Age 8Norwich, Vermont

2nd Grade class of Melanie DevoidMarion Cross School

Liam Ryan-O’FlahertyAge 8, Norwich, Vermont2nd Grade class of Melanie DevoidMarion Cross School

Henry Nichols, Age 10, Thetford, Vermont

MeadowI look out the window, the meadow I see.

The meadow in the winter is quiet, soft and noiseless.The Sun comes out, but snow still dances about.

I’m feeling sort of sad.A snowman says hi,

but my eyes go by.I go to bed,

visions of snowflakesswirl in my head,

I remember the spring,that glorious thing,

when the flowersjump out of the ground,

birds fill the air with sound,The butterflies, the bees,

the sap in the trees,reminding me of sweet Maple Syrup.

By Samantha Westelman, Age 9Hanover, New Hampshire


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I Went to See theMarvelous Beast

Written and illustrated by Sam Gautier, Norwich, Vermont

4th Grade class of Eloise Ginty, Marion Cross School

I went to see the marvelous beastor so they say it was

The zoo keeperwas horrified,

the cage sweeperwas mortified,the TV crew

was so surprisedbut one little kidwas not horrified

nor mortifiedand definitely not surprised

He stomped rightdown to the local zoo

jumped into the cage and said“You are afraid of the beast.Don’t be afraid of the beast.

It’ s perfectly tame.It’s sotame

I’ll hopinto its mouth.

See,nothing to worry about.”

GULP!

Prologue

“Hi! I’m Eric Zhu. I live inLebanon, New Hampshire. Someweird things happened to me thissummer, and I want to tell it toyou.” Warning! The following storyis full of surprises. For those of you,who can be surprised easily, BECAREFUL!

Chapter 1: A Report

“What! I have to write an 80-pagereport?!” I said. Mrs. Hickey, ourteacher, went around passing outsheets of paper. “These are due onMonday,” she said. The sheets ofpaper had the subject of the report onthem, and when I got my sheet it saiddinosaurs. Well, at least I got a subjectI like, I thought. It was Friday, so itwas go-home day. On the way home Ithought all about dinosaurs and I wasworried about what I would write.

On the day after, I had a wonder-ful time at a water park, so I com-pletely forgot about the report. OnSunday afternoon I finally remem-bered. Eric, you dummy, I thought. Igot right down to work. I couldn’tthink of anything, so I went for awalk, then on the path I found aglowing stone. I felt compelled tolook at it. Suddenly everythingpaused, there was even a bird frozen inmidair. Then everything went back-wards. Farther and farther, I wentuntil the earth turned colder and thenfreezing. My entire body was numb. Irealized I was in the Ice Age!

Chapter 2: The Big Boom

Faster and faster, Mammoths actual-ly walked backwards! Bare bonesturned into living creatures. Adultanimals turned into babies, thennewborn and then eggs! (Or in themammals’ case, tiny animals).Suddenly the amount of life seemedto decrease, there were deaddinosaurs everywhere. I recognizedthem as Late Cretaceous dinosaurs.Massive reptiles like Tyrannosaurus-Rex, and Triceratops.

Suddenly the sky turned darkand lava showered down. Then ahuge cloud of dust went to thesouthwest, shock waves, followed bybrilliant light.

Finally I caught on. “Oh! I’m inthe end of the time of thedinosaurs!” I yelled, trying to speakabove the wind. “But that means....”The earth itself shook....

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The Prehistoric AdventureWritten by Eric ZhuGrade 4, Lebanon, New Hampshire

Cookies, swimming, mornings, fun,a sweet summer has begunflowers, gardens, pools, hikes,a camp fire burning brightplaying, biking, a skinned knee—

bummer!this is the middle of a sweet summerowls, fireflies, critters, more,in a tent with a s’moresun block, towels, a beach ballsummer’s almost oversoon it will be fall

Boots, sweaters, going for a runa fun fall has begunpicking apples off the treea jug of cider for you and mecarving pumpkins, halloweenmy costume is an evil queengolden leaves, whispering treeswear a coat there’s a chilly breezestacking wood—a tender splinterautumn’s over time for winter

Fluffy snow, a bright suna frosty winter has begunskiing, skating, snowball fightsslipping, sliding on the icewhen you’ve been outside a bitit's good to have some hot chocolatechristmas, candles, songs to singfarewell winter welcome spring

Rubber boots, newborn deera muddy spring is now herewarmer weather, rainy dayssearching for board games to playEaster, flowers, robins, slushready for summer very muchthis muddy spring is almost donegreener grasssummer’s herea year has passed

By Maddie AndersonAge 10, Barnard, Vermont


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DOWN THERE IN the depths of thewater...a happy seal glides in anopen space in the water. The joyfulseal, Socoya, slides along the tapes-try of the surface and dives swiftlydown

downdown

downinto the rapid waves ofthe ocean,only wanting the coastal waters notto freeze. Booming sounds fromabove the ocean start to ring.

The cascade of cool, moist saltwater slaps against socoya’s smoothbreathing body as she speedily butwith steady curiosity gets to thewater’s surface to see what is going on.

Colorful puffs of flames arerevealed to Socoya from the sky.Her curiosity transforms into fright-fulness. All of a sudden, Socoyadives back into the water, as fast asshe can, so fast and scared that in ablink of two eyes, you could not seeher go down into the now icyocean. Socoya hears shouts andmore booms. She is TERRIFIED!

Scolding herself for beingafraid, she is determined to reach

that noisy spot on the surface of thewater. Face your fears, face your fears,you can do this, she thinks. Don’t beafraid. Encouraging herself to swim,she makes it finally to the top. Atthe summit of the sea, she seesone... no two... no three! powerfulpuffs of bleached colored flamesand exploding circles. All of thismakes Socoya dizzy.

She looks away, worried. What ifthey were... Well, Socoya doesn’twant to bother thinking of theunpleasant things that it could possi-bly be.

Wait, Socoya says to herself, con-fused. Sea urchins sort of look likethose shapes in the sky.... Socoya isnow aware that this wonder in theair could just possibly be somethinggood. Yeah.

High chance that those are seaurchins, Socoya reminds herself, sar-castically. Socoya swims to a groupof sea otters lying on their backs,clapping on their stomachs and...looking up at the sky at the coloreddust explosions.

Hmmm... Socoya thinks. Oneof the sea otters screeches with joy

and jubilation.But suddenly, out of the blue,

the colors stop. Those were beautiful,thinks Socoya. Not some old seaurchins floating in the sky. Thosewere absolutely not things I need to beafraid of.

And so that was the memorablenight that Socoya the seal faced herfears.

The Wonderful Wonderfuls of the SkyWritten and Illustrated by Nora Taylor, Norwich, Vermont4th Grade class of Eloise Ginty, Marion Cross School

Attack of the Snow PeopleBy Jody Kifner, Age 10, Strafford, Vermont

SHALOKA WAS HUNTING on a fieldwhite with soft powdery snow.Suddenly, it started to snow harderand harder. Shaloka was blinded bythe powdery snow. He could barelysee two feet in front of him. He juststood there as if frozen waiting forthe snow to stop. Just ten minuteslater, the snow stopped abruptly.Shaloka looked at the ground where

there had been only two inchesbefore, the snow was now waist deep.

Shaloka gasped! Just then some-thing caught his attention. Lumpswere coming out of the waist-deepsnow. The lumps looked about sevenfeet tall, including the part of themthat wasn't snow, and were abouttwo feet wide. The lumps shook andthe loose snow fell off to reveal men.

Men as white as death. Men made ofsnow. One that looked like the leaderhad a crown made of icicles. Thatone drew his sword. Shaloka onlyhad time to see that the sword wasmade of ice before he ran....

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The DancerBy Gracie Callaghan, Norwich, Vermont4th Grade class of Eloise Ginty, Marion Cross School

Dancing is a thingthat you cannot be pulled away from.

Dancing is like a promisethat you cannot break.Dancing frees your spirit.You can dance in your roomor on the stairs.You can even dance in your imagination.

You don’t have to learn a combinationor listen to instructions to dance.Anyone can dance,anywhere.

Some children are required to danceor have a part in The Nutcracker,

like the Waltz of the Flowersor reindeer.Wherever you are,

whoever you are,dancing is the key to success.

Therese Linehan, Director • (802) 649-1416

PICTURE PUZZLERPICTURE PUZZLERCan you find all the pictures hidden in this scene?


Artwork © 2007 Mihr Snyder-Wishingrad

See if you can find these items:

❑ bell ❑ whale ❑ rat ❑ music note ❑ hour glass ❑ lightbulb ❑ hat ❑ bird

❑ pizza ❑ pencil ❑ ladders ❑ spoon ❑ cat ❑ rolling pin ❑ baseball bat

❑ mug ❑ comb ❑ glasses ❑ mitten ❑ skis

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Answers at flyingship.org and in next issue!

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ONCE THERE WAS a boy who was sixyears old. He was getting his jacket onto go outside. He made a snow familyout of snowmen and women.

Then it gave him an idea. Theidea was he could make other stuffand not just snowmen. So he madesnow bears, a snow lion, a snow deer,a snow polar bear, a snow person. Healso made igloos. He made so manythings that he ran out of space afterthe fourth igloo.

Soon he had another idea. He ranback into the house and asked hismom and dad if he could get somestuff to bring outside. His mom anddad said yes, as long as you bring it allin afterwards. So he got three sleepingbags and hot chocolate. He made a

fire and asked his mom and dad ifthey wanted to come and see what hehad done.

So they got their jackets on. Theywent outside. After they saw all of thesculptures and snowmen he made, hesaid, “there’s a better part.” Heshowed them the igloos with a nicewarm fire and three sleeping bags.They sat down and had hot chocolate.They slept in the cozy igloo.

The Boy Who Made SculpturesBy Avery Monahan, Age 8, Norwich, Vermont2nd Grade class of Melanie Devoid, Marion Cross School

HOW TO SUBMIT WORKFOR PUBLICATION

We welcome your submissionsany time! We publish short

stories, poetry, and artwork, aswell as your jokes, comic strips,recipes, puzzles, and more. Ages6-13 are eligible. Send work to:

Flying ShipPO Box 1159

Norwich, VT 05055

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I WAS WALKING home from schoolone day when I felt something hitme. It was a snowball. I lookedaround for the person who threw itat me. I saw him. I chased him. Hewent into the woods. He ran andran and ran. I was too tired to keeprunning, so I started to walk back to

the sidewalk. I walked and walkedand walked. I could not find theedge of the woods. I was lost. I wasscared. It was getting dark. All of asudden, I heard footsteps in thesnow. Then I saw what it was. It wasmy cat, Bella! I picked her up andhugged her. She started to purr.Suddenly, she jumped out of myarms and started to walk away. I fol-lowed her. Then I heard cars. Shesaved me! I picked her up andhugged her so, so hard.

The whole way home I held her.When I got home, my mom wasright on the porch. She hugged meand then asked me why I was solate. We went inside and had hot

chocolate. I told her the whole storywith Bella on my lap.

The next day, when I was walk-ing to school, I heard this boy yellsomething to me. This is what hesaid: “I threw a snowball at you yes-terday.” I went over to him and saidit was okay. We became friends.

SnowballBy Chiara Rothwell-Ferraris, Age 7, Norwich, Vermont2nd Grade class of Melanie Devoid, Marion Cross School

Cristina Batt, Age 11New London, New Hampshire

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How many black dots do you see?

Is this picture moving? Are the red lines straight or crooked?

“Relativity” by M.C. Escher

M.C. Escher was a graphic artist who livedin the Netherlands from 1898 until 1972.He is famous for his tricky pictures likethis one, which he called Relativity. Can

you tell which way is up or down?

Here are some other tricky pictures, called optical illusions.Careful, they may make you dizzy!

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MAZE CRAZE!MAZE CRAZE!Can you find your way through these perplexing paths?

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DID YOU KNOW? Giant mazes, called labyrinths, havebeen constructed all over the world for thousands of years,both for fun and for magical or religious purposes (liketrapping trolls so they couldn’t cause mischief to fisher-men when they went out to sea). This hedge labyrinth isin Barcelona, Spain.

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