Best for the end.

A Fruit Bowl Melissa Clark, 9 1/2 Olmsted Falls, Ohio

Kelsie Fralick, 7 West Chester, Pennsylvania

Brooke Leanna, 9 Oneida, Wisconsin

UFO Ship! Felicia Figueroa Boynton Beach, Florida

Crazy Man Yamilet Perez, 8 Hialeah, Florida

Joanne Christy, 6 Flint, Michigan

Mint Chocolate Chip Katie Alling, 7 1/2 Jenkinsburg, Georgia

Deer at the River Branndon Taylor, 8 Live Oak, Florida

Mimi Koji Matsumoto, 10 Portland, Oregon

Lena Ramirez, 10 Inverness, Florida

Commander Blaster Natanel Eisenberg, 11 Spencer, West Virginia

Hey, Kids!

Send us your pictures and poems--we'll publish as many as we can. Please send only YOUR OWN WORK. Pictures should be on unlined paper, and poems should be twelve lines or less. Include your name, age, and address, and mail to: "Best for the End," U*S*Kids, P.O. Box 567, Indianapolis, IN 46206.

NOTE: All work becomes the property of U*S*Kids; submissions cannot be returned. Because we receive so many drawings and poems, we're not able to print every one. But we do look at all your submissions, and we'd like to say, "Thank you!"