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Ninth Annual Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest


2005 Contest Winners






Second Grade Third Place

"Watch Out"

Written and Illustrated by Morris J. Martinez

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Hi! I’m Jokey a silly weird clown who lives in Dallas, Texas. Some kind of American told me to go into the woods acting like myself. So I took his advice and ran as fast as a leopard to the woods. Later while I was walking along
the road a huge wagon came towards me! It could'nt run over me. I’m a clown. The only thing I could do was honk my horn twice. Honk Honk! That wagon stopped as fast as a snap. I asked him if he could give me a
got runover?” They giggled, they laughed, they even ran around in circles. That when I quickly escaped to a city called El Paso. I learned to speak Spanish. Also I learned to rope cattle. But there’s something that I’m never doing. That’s going in the woods, because it’s dangerous.
ride back to Dallas. “Sure,” said the man. I only five minets to go back. I saw the man who told me to go in the woods. I did’nt tell him anything but a joke. “Have you ever heard of the one about the clown went it the woods and almost