Stories Collection

  1. In the century after Columbus, Spanish explorers came to the New World of Central Am...
  2. I expected the smell of frying potatoes to greet me at my grandmother's door. But wh...
  3. I'm trying to get to the Earth's center to find out what is there. Do you know how t...
  4. 1. Cover a shoebox with paper, then decorate it to look like a cat's body. 2. ...
  5. The wind whipped stinging flakes into Lena's face as she trudged home from school in...
  6. Eyeglasses Reserver Whenever you lose, break, or need glasses, the Eyeglasses R...
  7. Why do things look jiggly behind a barbecue, candle, or campfire? Julianna Percia...
  8. Go Look at a Cow When you are feeling lonesome, go look at a cow, becau...
  9. 1. Fold up the tip of a chenille stick, then string beads onto it. Larger beads, suc...
  10. My family and I played Monopoly, but we went easy on each other. Let's say my sister...
  11. Why Doesn't My Tooth Fall Out? When is my tooth going to fall out? When is ...
  12. * Can you do these, things with sand? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Can you do...
  13. How do flowers bloom? Sarah Gordon, Age 4 Oregon Flowering plants bloom by...
  14. Sadness I am sad today. My tears are dropping down my face. I wish ...
  15. 1. From a large piece of craft foam, cut out the shape of a menorah with places for ...
  16. I have trouble with spelling, and I have to go to a tutor. But when I go there I get...
  17. Uh-Oh I know a girl; her name is Liz. She bounces the world in her ...
  18. When you think of a parade, do you picture marching bands, clowns, and spinning bato...
  19. * Why might people enjoy having trees in their neighborhood? * What foods do we...
  20. Fish Fish have helped soothe me by swimming in circles like a leaf ...
  21. 1. Cut a 9-inch-by-12-inch piece of felt into three 9-inch-by-4-inch sections. Glue ...
  22. I like to eat spinach, but at school nobody really likes it. I have friends, but I f...
  23. Light Warm light on my arm. Night light keeps me from harm. Bright ligh...
  24. Wobbly, Wobbly Custard Wobbly, wobbly custard sitting on the shelf, f...
  25. I grew up on a swine farm. Like a lot of kids, I raised pigs as a 4-H project. Pigs ...
  26. A Perfect Day The wind runs through my hair like fingers. The blue sky look...
  27. 1. Use a toothpick to mix a half-teaspoon of sesame seeds with a few drops of yellow...
  28. I have a problem. Every time I play a video game with my little brother, he quits in...
  29. "Pssst. You. Yes, you holding the magazine. Come inside. Don't trip over the pa...
  30. I've been picked on some by my friends because I'm not highly observant. I got to th...
  31. After a luncheon to celebrate their successful soccer season, these five boys posed ...
  32. Moonlight The moon is lighting up the bay. The moon is watching the dol...
  33. Which ten things look the same in these two pictures? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
  34. I'm going to fall. I know it, know it, know it. And it's going to hurt. M...
  35. Have you ever made a paper airplane that looked as if it could really fly, only to h...
  36. Christmas was coming. Pa was making presents. So was Ma. So was Mab...
  37. Girl: People call you a shooting star. What are you really? Shooting star: I'm ...
  38. In our June 2002 issue, we asked you to tell us what your favorite sound is and why ...
  39. Your Age "I'm not six-- I'm going on seven," "I'm not te...
  40. The outside temperature is dropping rapidly. When I look through the window, I can s...
  41. (1) A farmer has four ducks and three pens. How can he arrange the pens so that each...
  42. Mother I can see it in attic photos, page by page, all our daughter-mot...
  43. Cozy I'm really cozy in my bed with covers pulled over my head. I'm coz...
  44. In English and Swedish You've heard this rhyme before: Baa, baa, black sh...
  45. 1. How did the rainbow do on the test? Charli Orr, Maryland 2. What does ...
  46. Did You Know? Prairie dogs use many different sounds to call to one another. They us...
  47. It Comes ... It comes when branches tremble. It comes when your hai...
  48. When I was a boy in a northern Michigan town, sports were everything. Unless you cou...
  49. Sandra: "Have you heard the joke about the airplane?" Shawn: "No...
  50. In this big picture find the banana, slice of watermelon, mug, sock, worm, flying di...
  51. The challenge: Launch a new dry catfood brand variant into a crowded and competitive...
  52. A candle from style guru Paula Ryan's Simply You stable (www.simplyyou.co.nz) to mar...
  53. PPAC The Professional Photography Awards Company Sponsor of the Series Ca...
  54. Awarded for a portfolio of the four highest scoring prints. This year it is Tony Car...
  55. The alarm sounded shrilly and I jolted awake. The clock read 4.30am. Really, so soon...
  56. Dear Ed: "OPG incompetent and agencies are generally useless". Gee--...
  57. Proud to sponsor the 2004 People Category [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kodak Ne...
  58. I would like on behalf of PPAC to record once again our thanks to the sponsors of th...
  59. Three this month: Y & R & varsity.co.nz's helpful tips for students (well, m...
  60. It seems the elder statesman of Y & R Auckland has made the leap into the 21st c...
  61. AGFA BLACK and WHITE PAPERS Multicontrast Premium Resin coated Multicontr...
  62. Throwing open his bedroom curtain at 7 am recently, Adplus Napier's Rick Hopkinson b...
  63. I'm still coming to terms with the fact that no longer will Howard Russell be ringin...
  64. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
  65. Amid the excitement at Y & R following several key executive appointments, the r...
  66. FIRST NAME LAST NAME PO BOX CITY Stephen A'Court...
  67. Labtec Photographic Processing Ltd. Full Service Professional Laboratory ...
  68. PRODUCT MAY 2005 1 Personalised Plates ...
  69. FIRST NAME LAST NAME PO BOX CITY Julian Apse ...
  70. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
  71. On these three pages we've collected a stunning collection of images from photolibra...
  72. "I saw this year's AXIS print winner [Colenso's Seabirds, which won bronze in N...
  73. Unitec New Zealand welcomes the opportunity to support the NZPPA student/assistant c...
  74. PRODESIGN is pleased to support great local Photography PRODESIGN is the New Ze...
  75. A wide range of creative industries use images supplied by photolibraries, including...
  76. NewstalkZB (www.newstalkzb.co.nz) used iPod power to deliver its message to key ad a...
  77. CR Kennedy (NZ) Ltd Unit 2, 3 Hotunui Drive Mt Eden Auckland ...
  78. Fujifilm proud to be a sponsor of the 2004 New Zealand Professional Photography Awar...
  79. Aaron Smale, IKON [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AIPA Member Speciality: Ed...
  80. Some very fine coffees--instant and ground--from Scarborough Fair (www.scarboroughfa...
  81. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
  82. "Art does not reproduce what we see--it makes us see" Paul Klee The ...
  83. Photography awards are a big part of the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photo...
  84. Publicis Rainger has joined a US network and changed its name, so they sent ad peopl...
  85. Proud to sponsor the 2004 Self Promotion/Illustrative Category. Mamiya 645 PRO ...
  86. means professional ** professional quality ** professional service ...
  87. Success at the 2005 Pride in Print Awards was an endorsement of Hally Labels' commit...
  88. To bring to life their billboard outside St Matthew-in-the-City, M&C Saatchi nee...
  89. Bachelor of Communication Studies Qualification: Bachelor Degree Cost: $3...
  90. Above we have images from I'd Like, an award-winning Xenical tvc created by Jeremy T...
  91. Training for the advertising industry became a reality only recently but the range a...
  92. "The great thing about New Zealand is that you can pull this kind of thing off,...
  93. Alan (AJ) Whetton is best known in New Zealand for wearing the black jersey during t...
  94. Whybin TBWA's traffic-stopping bus-shelter stunts for Newstalk ZB won Adshel a globa...
  95. BRONZE--CLEMENGER BBDO--BABE MAGNETS Creative Director: Philip Andrew Acc...
  96. The Bible promises us three score years and 10--and that is exactly the number of ye...
  97. The word came through. L&P was going to release a new sugar-free variant. They n...
  98. AXIS CHAIRMAN'S REPORT On these pages you'll find what has been deemed to be th...
  99. "I'm anti-gun and anti-war--but this ad made me want to prove I was good enough...
  100. Dear Ed: With all the brickbats that get served up, I thought we'd offer a bou...
  101. Saatchi's Bulls, our Ad of the Month last issue, has shot straight to the top on deb...
  102. New mediums often need to establish guidelines and promote the growth of their secto...
  103. Dear Ed: I enjoy AdMedia, even though lately some issues have resembled those ...
  104. Top 40 television ad spenders--April 2005 PRODUCT APR...
  105. Thirty-eight mixed-doubles agency teams did battle in OGGI's 5th annual tennis tourn...
  106. The promoters of Zenith Corp's Body Enhancer, Winston & Sylvia Gallot, say they'...
  107. Top 40 print ad spenders--April 2005 PRODUCT APRIL ...
  108. Lowe/Yuk Foo/Digital Sparks/Liquid's cheeky Vodafone tvc pushes all our buttons, and...
  109. SUPREME AWARD WINNER Light-operated Mouse & Keyboard Printed by: Penm...
  110. Top 10 radio ad spenders--April 2005 PRODUCT APRIL 2005 ...
  111. Y & R Wellington's powerful campaign for the NZ Human Rights Film Festival (curr...
  112. Saatchi and Sydney Film Co have revisited Toyota Bugger territory and the result is ...
  113. Now in its 26th year, Country-Wide Publications (CPL) has grown to be New Zealand's ...
  114. PRODUCT MARCH TOTAL 2005 TOTAL 2004 1 McDonald's...
  115. Dear Ed: How good is Roy Morgan and do media buyers take any notice of it? ...
  116. Winning gold at last month's CAANZ Media Awards were: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
  117. Independent newspapers still exist. And excellence is sometimes celebrated in the pr...
  118. The adidas poster (below, top) advertises the Predator Traxion football boot. The de...
  119. Meares Taine creatives Amie Cutler & Josh Lancaster will represent NZ in the Int...
  120. The most effective advertising medium for retailers is right in front of them in the...
  121. Auckland's most famous crotch (10) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Before ... ...
  122. According to Murray Davis, ceo of billboard skins printer Omnigraphics, one of the m...
  123. PRODUCT MARCH TOTAL 2005 TOTAL 2004 1 New World ...
  124. Only one debutant this month--Colenso & Silverscreen's work for BNZ. But most of...
  125. PRODUCT MARCH 2005 1 Personalised Plates $...
  126. The brief from Mazda was to create a brand commercial that captured the essence of '...
  127. Italian Lorenzo de Rita's remarkable appearance for CAANZ at Auckland's Coast Bar la...
  128. The magazine industry celebrated another year of achievement at the Hyatt last month...
  129. Schick Quattro was launched in September 2004 using a mixed media schedule of Televi...
  130. Broadcasting deregulation pioneer Laurie Cameron, the inaugural chairman of the Adve...
  131. Dear Ed: I was pleased to see Wilderness magazine mentioned in March AdMedia, ...
  132. Val Morgan (slogan: 'Hot & Fastgrowing') celebrates booming cinema adspend with ...
  133. Meares Taine creatives Tom Paine & Mike Knight will fly to the OBIE Awards in Ch...
  134. Colenso's MINI Convertible park-bench ambient is our ad of the month--the latest in ...
  135. PRODUCT FEBRUARY TOTAL 2005 TOTAL 2004 1 Lotto ...
  136. You can't beat a good party, and the Curious hooley in honour of the great, great wo...
  137. A recent posting on a NZMusic.com forum caught our eye: "Far be it from me to c...
  138. It was Tuesday night and I was headed for the door. Anne, a fellow creative cut me o...
  139. All gloriously true. And English-born adman Paul Jeffreys, who died unexpectedly in ...
  140. Three interesting new arrivals this month: Saatchi's first new tvc for Tui since win...
  141. Dear Ed: A quote from me, in AdMedia February ('Welcome to the Broadband Age')...
  142. The date: Tuesday, 15 March 2005. The venue: Fables Rug Gallery, Pa...
  143. directors showcase @radical.media Director: Nick Robertson Producer...
  144. Dear Ed: Here's my long promised report from the office of 180 Amsterdam (&quo...
  145. PRODUCT FEBRUARY TOTAL 2005 TOTAL 2004 1 New Wo...
  146. Extract from the Kiwi FM launch invite: Hello Sailor! It's time to put on a Goo...
  147. APN's New Zealand Herald and Fairfax's Sunday Star-Times can agree to disagree on wh...
  148. Chris Porter has already convinced Cathay Pacific, Mercedes Benz and Lindauer that h...
  149. Total Media ceo Martin Gillman is concerned that traditionally strong newspaper read...
  150. Marketers seem pleased with their new image, which has seen the Direct Marketing Ass...
  151. Did you know that you can contact tens of thousands of New Zealand consumers for a f...
  152. Hard to go past Meares Taine/Silver-screen's work for L & P this month. Retro ca...
  153. After living in Amsterdam for almost a year, Rachel Davies can now ride a bicycle ra...
  154. Dear Ed: I received a copy of AdMedia October magazine today and to my surpris...
  155. Lowe's new campaign for Lotto was born out of a month of meeting Lotto winners and r...
  156. A recent article in NBR suggested the name change had created "political tensio...
  157. Dear Ed: I overlooked mentioning that the credit for the Phil Matthias shot [l...
  158. Since starting Lucire as a print title in 2004, Jack Yan still gets questions such a...
  159. Two debutants this month--Colenso & Film Construction's work for More FM (direct...
  160. Dear Ed: I read with interest ... Actually, that's bollocks--I read with bored...
  161. SECTION TV CHANGE RADIO CHANGE ...
  162. PRODUCT JANUARY TOTAL 2004 1 New World Superma...
  163. Dear Ed: Your 'Highlights from the Nielsen Readership survey' [courtesy of Med...
  164. PRODUCT JANUARY TOTAL 2004 1 McDonalds Restaur...
  165. Colenso BBDO Real growth from existing clients and record new-business growth ...
  166. TOP 40 SPENDERS -- MAGAZINES Total spend $ 1 L...
  167. Below, we have a screengrab from Colenso's celebrated Lightsabre tvc for Inghams. Th...
  168. Outdoor David Hall of Lifestyle Publishing produces titles such as Wilderness,...
  169. Fizzy Boost Energy tabs from Healtheries & Pead PR so we can work even harder. ...
  170. Losses For Advertising Industry' the headline screamed at me from the business secti...
  171. METROMEDIA Geoffrey Main, Misty Reid, Doug Adsett. Channelle Guthrie, Liz...
  172. What's this? Two print ads appear around the same time, both featuring party blowers...
  173. Wellington-based photographer Nick Servian (nick@nickservian.com), well known in the...
  174. Sean James Donnelly sees both sides of the musical coin. As SJD, his third and lates...
  175. Mark Champion somehow missed the photo call but CAANZ--a foundation signatory--and t...
  176. An offer to chat and partake in some liquid at Auckland's Liquid Studios is hard to ...
  177. Dear Ed: Towards the end of last year the Screen Directors Guild of NZ receive...
  178. Dear Ed: I am a photographer (an old one) based in Oakura, Taranaki. Presently...
  179. It's the dream of many a creative to bust out of the advertising world and into kids...
  180. National adspend Top 40 print ad spenders --November 2004 PRODUCT ...
  181. Blue Hat's Power Up (the ad, like the coffee, goes down easy) and DDB's Jason (for h...
  182. "Before the guys all rush," wrote Alert Reader of Grey Lynn, who sent us t...
  183. The hand talents of Phil Matthias, the celebrated College Hill tattooist (of Dermagr...
  184. As animation software has become more accessible, the problems associated with the e...
  185. Back in 2003 I was a guest of the YoungGuns Awards judging panel and Big Guns Creati...
  186. The dial-up era is rapidly coming to a close. According to emarketer.com, broadband ...
  187. Kiwis' love affair with pohutukawa symbolism continues. At Christmas, we had Heineke...
  188. Bigmouth is one of the smaller voice agencies, but also one of the more interesting ...
  189. Part 1: In which we explain the need to explain the 2D animation process (and have a...
  190. Jane Caro's article in December's AdMedia no doubt annoyed a lot of market researche...
  191. The economy continues to grow. So do corporate profits. Ditto adspend. The country i...
  192. Background Purina ONE is a high-nutrition food for cats and dogs available in ...
  193. Believe it or not, everyone's wired up the same way! Even Saudi Arabians living in t...
  194. Top 40 print ad spenders--October 2004 PRODUCT OCTOBER TOTAL...
  195. This campaign is to plug a new brand identity for PowerFarming--the NZ distributor o...
  196. Dear Ed: Take a look at the enclosed ad that we ran for PCW back in 1996. See ...
  197. Media companies are emerging as owners of several of NZ's bigger out-of-home adverti...
  198. On these two pages we feature student work of the end-of-year shows at AXIS Adschool...
  199. Dear Ed: I presume the new "end-of-isle" promo from M&C Saatchi ...