Dear Sir Mortimer,
I don’t think you should destroy
the gardens because the city needs to have trees and plants to make
oxygen and shade. People like to have picnics next to the pond and
other places in the gardens. You will create pollution because more
cars will come. If you cared about the people you would see that most
of us like the gardens being there. (Fynn & Amber)
Dear
Sir Mortimer,
We want to keep the Botanical
Gardens. I know you might not want to listen to children but the
flowers and trees have lived there longer than you. How would you feel
if someone took your home away? You should be ashamed of yourself! It
is the heart of the city and the trees give us air. What would you do
without trees and flowers? More people will come to the city because of
how beautiful it is, and you would make more money because more people
would be coming. ( Naomi)
River  1/2
Caleb
Zen
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By
Patricia Wrightson
Selina, Rupert and Benny live in different surroundings to most
children their age. Instead of a small, fenced backyard, the Botanical
Gardens and the labyrinth of Sydney’s narrow streets is their
playground. Life is seemingly normal for them, until they uncover plans
for part of the Botanical Gardens to be taken away to make way for a
carpark. They have to try and stop it, but how? Just when they think
that there is no hope, a little magic comes their way.
The Starfish class had mixed feelings about this book. Some students
found the descriptions of the mystical creatures and the magical
occurrences very exciting, while others thought that the book needed
some humour. A few students commented that they were disappointed
because it seemed as though the book was building up to something
really exciting happening, and what happened turned out to be somewhat
of an anticlimax. The students did have some strong opinions about what
they thought of part of the Botanical Gardens being taken away to build
a carpark. The following are some letters that the students wrote in
protest to the carpark being built:
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