By Katie Clyatt
4^th grade, Humboldt county
Illustrated by Winters High School

Katie, Chenelle and Tony built a giant "food pyramid" to enter into the State Fair. All the products in it were grown in California. Tony was drawing a picture of a tomato to add to the pyramid. Katie's little sister Emmy volunteered to go hang it up. After a while Katie said that they had better go check on Emmy. Out in the yard there was still no tomato on the pyramid.

Where was Emmy?

"Look, there are her footprints," said Katie.

They followed the footprints to a small hole. Katie looked down and tumbled right in! Toby and Chenelle followed.

When the three friends stood up they found themselves on the bottom level of the pyramid. They had landed on a giant loaf of bread.

"Wow! This is awesome!" said Chenelle.

They could see Emmy's foot prints in the flour. It looked like she was headed toward the crackers.

"She must have been here," said Katie, "See that big bite."

They were following her trail when all three fell right into a dish of pasta.

"Not bad! This is my favorite kind," said Tony.

"I prefer rice," said Chenelle as she hopped over into a bowl of rice.

They climbed the stairwell going up into a new level. Soon they were in a forest of broccoli. They stepped onto giant peas and began to roll around. They squished their way through the mashed potatoes and fell into bowl of squash. They dried themselves off with lettuce leaves. That's when they discovered another clue. Emmy had nibbled on a carrot!

A string bean path lead to a room filled with fruit. They knew Emmy had been there because there was Tony's tomato. They headed over to the apple mountain. They walked under a bridge of grapes which led down to strawberries. They crossed the river of orange juice on a kiwi boat. Everyone had a nice drink. They climbed stairs made of blackberries.

This door led to a room filled with all kinds of animals. Chickens, cows, fish and pigs all filled the room. They carefully climbed over the eggs into the dairy section of the pyramid. They pulled and pushed each other through the holes in the Swiss cheese, swam through a milk stream and ate some yogurt.

Katie spotted a trap door on the ceiling. They climbed into the top of the pyramid. There was Emmy munching on an oatmeal-raison cookie!

"Wow! I didn't know there was so much yummy food grown in California," said Emmy.

All three climbed through a hole and slid down the side of the pyramid. They landed in Katie's backyard. It was morning and Tony's Dad was there to drive them to the fair.

"Boy, you guys are up early! Did you already have breakfast?" he asked.

"We had a feast!" they said. And off they went.