Rye Neck Student Publishes Poem in Highlights Magazine

The August 2012 issue of Highlights for Children has published a poem by 7-year-old Alexander Musicus in the “Your Own Pages” section.

Alexander, the child of Andrew and Julie Musicus, is a 2nd grader at  in Rye Neck. He enjoys basketball, lacrosse, soccer, baseball, bowling and swimming, as well as building model volcanoes. When he grows up, Alex would like to be a builder.

Each year, Highlights for Children readers send the magazine more than thirty five thousand submissions. The magazine selects work by boys and girls of all ages and from many different places in the world. By showcasing a representative sample of all the work, Highlights hopes to foster children’s creativity.

Devoted to “Fun with a Purpose,” Highlights for Children, Inc. has helped children become their best selves for generations. Its flagship publication, Highlights magazine, the most recognizable and widely-read children’s magazine in the nation, printed its billionth copy in June 2006.

Other Highlights offerings include Highlights for Children Book Clubs and children’s books from the Boyd’s Mills Press imprint.

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"The Ocean"

Ocean flat
totally wavy 
textured 
up and down. 
Coming and going 
going and coming. 
Some colors like 
green 
and yellow 
and a little black. 
And animals-- 
there are some whales 
in the ocean, 
and sharks live 
kind of deep. 
And there are coral reefs. 
If you touch the coral reef 
the reef 
the reef 
it might disappear 
when you swim away.