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**The Land above the Faraway Tree** by Room 4, Mangaroa School

Once upon a time there were four adventurous, eight year old children called Dan, Ellen, John and Millie. They had found a magic tree in an enchanted forest. This tree was gigantic with colourful autumn leaves and it grows different tropical fruit each hour. The trunk of the tree is thick and has shiny, polished- looking bark. When you climb to the top of this tree you find a big purple- green cloud and a rainbow coloured, wooden ladder. At the top of the ladder is a magical land. The children climbed up the ladder and saw....


 * By Kiwi Room, Plateau School **

A wonderful village filled with delicious candy, enchanted animals and a very loud and exciting rock band! The kids were fascinated by what they saw, yummy kinds of multi-coloured candy, friendly and cuddly bunnies and puppies and amazing guitar shaped clouds in the bright blue shimmering sky. While they were wandering around this fantasy land they met a friendly, guitar playing,goat who invited them to a big dinner party. Dan thought it was a bit strange but Ellen, John and Millie’s mouths watered at the thought of a big feast! Off they went with their new friend to attend the big feast. When they got there...

They found themselves in a huge room with lots of little tiny windows with yellow and blue curtains. There were Pictures of farm animals all playing musical instruments on the ceiling. In the middle of the room was a gigantic rectangular table with a Rainbow coloured tablecloth, Candles with rainbow flames and Roses and daisy in vases The chairs we even made from Candy canes. The four children followed the guitar playing goat to the table. At the table were a king and a queen who both had beards! They had been married for 14 years. There was also a princess, she was beautiful and she had a magic wand. At the table was a Big, white, fluffy, talking, angry Rabbit and a purple Beast with a dragon tail who was really nice.

For the feast they ate Pink tomatoes, Purple chickens, Yellow carrots and red broccoli. There was also Black cabbage, Purple mushrooms, Gold and silver monkey shaped lollies, Blue sausages, 1000 ice-cream flavours and gummy bears. In the middle of the table there was a Ginormous bright red banana cake with chocolate icing. After the feast the King went to cut the cake when all of a sudden a huge butterfly flew out and began to chase the four children out of the hall and down a corridor. Luckily the children found an empty cupboard. As they opened the door and stepped inside they down a long steep slide. They landed with a thump in…

Lyall Bay School
.... a wonderful place. The butterfly had chased them into a Lollipops Playland! The trees had lollipops on their branches. The grass was growing colourful lollies. There were chocolate flowers everywhere. It was fantastic. The children could see all kind of things that they could play on. There were trampolines, slides, roundabouts, swings and a chocolate swimming pool. There were computers with games on too.

The children played for a long time, but then they began to get tired and they were missing their families. Dan and Ellen went looking to see if they could find a way out. But they couldn't!! Were they going to be trapped in the room forever?

Suddenly Millie saw a big lever in one corner of the room. She got John to help her pull it downwards. As they pulled, a hidden door began to open. They stepped out into..............

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