Space Giants in the Bathgate Park School Library

Posted: Wednesday May 19, 2021

There is danger tape on the monkey bars and here we are in the library. We
have come from our classrooms. We have come from the Philippines, from Samoa
where we say oa maioe, from Fiji, from Wellington, from right here in Dunedin.
From France where writing is e c r i r e, ecrire.

We need to know how to spell things from the lists. We need to know how to
spell things so the portal will recognise where to take us. We could write a book
to take us there. And staple it. Or make a potion to make the portal.

We like it that school goes to year eight so our sisters can be with us. We like
to talk about our uncles and aunts and cats and rabbits so we can keep their
memories with us. We like writing and reading and maths and drawing and
football and spelling and we can spell b e c a u s e and m o r n i n g.

Because it is the morning and because we are in the library and because we
have the portal and because we have our memories, here we go. We are going to
Fiji, where it is warm, it is cloudy and it is not even cold when it is windy. We
are going to Goosebumps. We are going to Football Land. We are going to the
Philippines for coconuts. We are going to Australia for tarantulas and kangaroos.
We are going to Auckland to go in a car. We are going to France because Paris
and pizza. We are going to take our books to New York and read them.

We are going without our lunchboxes. We are going to bring the whole world
and eat it. The whole galaxy. We are space giants in the library.

By Kyra, Elijah, Robina, Anaelle, Aaliyah, Hunter, Hannah