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Emma Thomson

Author and illustrator Emma Thomson, best known for Felicity Wishes and Princess Pearl has been judging our creative writing competition and answering your questions on the ChildLine message boards! We are very excited to announce the competition winner has now been chosen and Emma's answers are up on the boards. See below for more details.

Creative writing competition

In 300 words, we asked you to write a short fairytale about an imaginary character who learns an important lesson to help them and their friends. We had lots of amazing stories come through which you can read on the creative writing message board.

And the winner is...
I am pleased to announce the winner of the competition is puresilver with their wonderful piece of creative writing called 'Friends forever'.

Friends forever - a short story written by puresilver
Download a copy of 'Friends forever', written by puresilver 2012

Congratulations from Emma Thomson

Drawing of Princess Pearl

'I just want to say a huge thank you to everybody who entered; it was incredibly hard to judge. I've chosen puresilver as the winner of the competition with their lovely story/poem called Friends Forever.

Flowee16 also wrote a lovely piece about Daisy and Chloe at Brownies. The story was of a very high standard and I have no doubt that writing will find itself playing a strong part in their future. I also very much liked SkittlesForever story, 'How you see yourself' which was a close second.'

  

Princess Pearl TM &(c) 2012 Emma Thomson

Emma Thomson answers your questions

Love writing? Want some hints and tips? All of your brilliant questions have now been answered by Emma.

Message boards: Emma Thomson answers your questions

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