What the kids say about Koala trouble
1st to 31st October 1997

Alex will reply to all email personally.

Subject: I like you stories

Dear Max..

I am 5 years old and I liked your story very much.

I hope I can read a new story every day.

I hope someday I will be able to meet you. I live in California ..

Please write to me if you can...

Monkey butt

Subject: Fishing in the ocean

Hi Alex

I like your stories. How did you make up the stories? How are you doing?

Bye for now.

Piers Zdan
from Victoria, Canada

Subject: G'day

HI Alex

I 'm Hannah Turner and Personly I love your stories.If I were a publisher I would publish your storie straight away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But I'm only 9. Thanks for the great stories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Put some more on!!!!!!

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hannah

Subject: from christopher

thank you

i am 4

and liked your story

Subject: Love Ya!

Dear Alex,

I think for your age your stories are very creative!
I love reading them, keep up the good work!

Love, Kim

Subject: good story

i'm from the united states, I live in Inglewood, my name is Hyrum, I am 8 years old and I liked your story

Subject: (pas d'objet)

BONJOUR ALEX.

JE M'APPELLE LAURA. J'AI QUATRE ANS. J'HABITE DANS LES PYRENEES, DANS LE SUD DE LA FRANCE. CHEZ MOI IL N'Y A PAS DE KOALA, MAIS IL Y A DES OURS, MAIS PLUS BEAUCOUP.

(Hello, Alex. My name is Laura and i'm a four year old little girl. I live in france, In Pyrenees. In my mountains, ther are not koalas, but there are bears, very few by shame ).

See you later, Alex.

Subject: Great Web Page!!

Hi Alex

Your pages are wonderful.

I will be showing them to the teachers at my school. Any way well done on your wonderful page.

What program did you use to create your graphics please? The children will want to know.

Bye
Muriel Wells
Facilitator The Teddy Bear Project.
There are 260 classes in the project now!
Grovedale West Primary School

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hi .. i like your story max.

from
josh

Subject: Thank You!

Thanks for your story i liked it very much

-- Ryan Milbauer
Redmond, Washington

ryan@redstone.net -- It's better to solve a puzzle than to dis-solve an attic floor!

Subject: where is Max?

I saw Max in a jacob tree.

JAR

Subject: Max's Mummy..

Dear Alex Balson,

I like your story. I am 8 years old.

I live in Miami, Florida in the United States. I was born in Honduras in Central America.

Sincerely,
Teresita Castillo

Subject: Howdy

Hi Alex,

My name is Tara Cook of Victoria.

I have benn looking at your page and its great!!!

Love the pictures and the story.

>From Tara Cook!!!

I love the Max stories a lot. Say hi to max for me.

>From Zinta cook.

Subject: Max and the Joey

Alexis (6 years old) and Carly (4 years old) of Orlando, Florida, USA love your story. We hope you keep on writing good stories. We have a 9 year old sister, Tessa, who wants to be a writer when she grows up.

Subject: I found Max!

Dear Alex,

Tonight after I read your story, I thought I saw gray fuzz sticking out of my toy bin. Sure enough, when I checked, there was Max! He said he came over just so he could keep me company tonight -- so tomorrow morning, I will put him on the first flight back Down Under to Australia. He promises to come back to southwestern Virginia, USA and visit me as soon as his next adventure is done. That should be about tomorrow night some time. *grin*

My name is Alena Naff and I am an 8-year-old girl in third grade near Blacksburg, Virginia. I might send you another adventure for your stories of Max. Don't you think Max should have a last name? Is Max your pet? If he is, do you live in Australia, because if you didn't, he would probably die, because he would not have regular food. If you don't live in Australia then what does he eat?

How old are you? Do you go to school? When you get this letter, please write me back and fill in the questions.

Thank you and 'bye'... *** Alena ***

Subject: Missing Max

Dear Alex:

My Mom runs a daycare from our house and together we love to read stories about Max and his friends. My favorite characters are Max and Sarah. We live in Canada and we don't see Koala bears very much but we have a stuffed one we have named Max. Keep writing the stories they're great.

Sincerely
Danika & Matthew
and Mom(Lorraine)

My name is Nicholas MOlina.

I am from Tampa, Florida, U.S.A. I liked your story. My mommy read it to me for our bedtime story.

Thank you.

Subject: We loved your story

Dear Alex,

We are in K/1/2S at Mount Brown School in Dapto - which is near Wollongong.

We are in Kindergarten.

We read your story about Max finding his Mum. We thought it was really great.

Next week some other kids will read another one of your stories.

At our school, we have possums in the gum trees not Koalas. We don't see them because they don't come out in the day time when we are at school. Goodbye

From,
Erin and Tiarne and Mrs Smith

Subject: hello

hello alex

my name is monica.im 5 years old and live in st.louis,mo.in the usa

.im typing this letter by myself ,my dad is helping me with the letters. my favorite tv show is the crocodile hunter. is there alot of snakes where you live? we have alot by our house but only a few are poisinous. are you in school? i just started kindergarden.

i hope you write back.

MONICA ANN MORRIS

Hi Alex

I hope I can come again some time.

I liked your stories Alex.

I am six and am just getting started on the internet. I have seen it on Agro's Cartoon Connection (if you know what that is!) and I want to see what I can find.

The thing that I am really looking for is one about Agro ...

this is my first email message too .....

Bye now
from Lachlan

Subject: ALEX

HI MY NAME IS MONICA.

IM 5 YEARS OLD.I LIVE IN ST.CHARLES, MISSOURI IN THE USA.

I LIKED YOUR STORY ALEX. WHAT'S IT LIKE LIVING IN AUSTRALIA? ONE OF MY FAVORITE TV SHOWS IS "THE CROCODILE HUNTER". DO YOU REALLY HAVE THAT MANY POISON SPIDERS AND SNAKES IN YOUR COUNTRY? WE HAVE SNAKES IN OUR YARD BUT WE HAVE NEVER SEEN ANY THAT ARE POISON.

I WROTE THIS LETTER BY MYSELF, MY DAD HELPED ME WITH SOME OF THE LETTERS. I HOPE YOU WRITE BACK.

MONICA MORRIS

Subject: story

dear alex,

My dad and I just found your web site. I was 5 on August 1, 1997. We think it is really neat that you and your dad got into a web site together. Maybe we can develope our own web site.

Todd Taylor
USA

Subject: max

I liked your story. I like Max.

Sincerely,
William Elmore (age 4)

Dear Alex

Thank you for your story, and the pictures. I'm glad the koala found his mummy.

Mickie

Subject: KOALA STORY

DEAR ALEX,

I LIKE YOUR STORY.

MAX YOU ARE FUNNY.

Subject: no subject

Daer Max

I liked your Story very much!

Can I Hear a nother one?

Love Rosalind.

Subject: Koala Troubles and Weather

I am a teacher in Florida. One of the 3rd grade classes is working on writing their own stories and we checked out the website -Alex's Scribbles for them to see examples of stories written by children.They enjoyed the stories about Max.

On your website it asked if we had any ideas for new adventures.The class had several ideas

1)Have Max get captured by a zoo and his mummy has to go get him.
2)Have Max visit the U.S.

Also we are studying weather and were wondering if you could email us back how the weather is there and if you ever have any dangerous weather where you live.

Karen Stofcheck
Lecanto Primary School
Lecanto,. Florida USA

Subject: (no subject)

dear max,

i love you.

max your a really great koala and i hope you have a really great day. my brother and me like your. we hope you can come visit us in america in someday.

your pals, brett and garrett thompson

Subject: Help Max find his Mummy

Dear Alex,

I am Daniel Edward Rice. I live in America, in Vienna, Virginia (near Washington, DC).

I have been playing your game with my dad. We liked the game.

Four. I am four, I just had my birthday. Thank you for making the game up. We can make a game up! (Dad, let's make a computer game of our own up!)

(From Edward Rice to Alex and his Dad -- thanks for your work, and if we do make a game up, we'll let you know about it.)

Danny & Daddy

Subject: Max's tour of the world

Hi. My name is Fiona and i'm from Narrabri in NSW. Not a REALLY exciting place, but it's bang-smack in the middle of Australia's cotton belt.

I'm 21, but I have 2 kids I babysit that I think might help me with the pictures.

I'd love to do a story for you.

Fiona

Subject: we saw max

ryan and marc enjoys your stories.

Thank-you.

Subject: Max's Birthday Party

We enjoyed your story a lot.

We live in Charlotte, North Carolina. My name is Isabel. I'm three. I like to do art work on the computer.

From: Fergal, Mel, Sally and Mandy

Dear Alex and Max,

Hi!

Loved your web page. We are teachers and we know lots of students who are your age and much older who will get a lot of enjoyment from your web page! We'll make sure to let them know!

Anyway,
Bye for now!!

Subject: koala & the big fire

Hi ! Alex,

I liked your story. It was really good.

Shiva

Subject: Max the Koala

Dear Alex

We live in South Australia in a small town called Moorak, near Mt Gambier.

We like your stories, especially the fire story and the race one and the lost one.Max lost his mummy. Max felt sad!

Tanace: I liked the one where Max lost his mummy.
Zecky: I like the race
Morgan: I liked your pictures.
Riley: I liked the bit with the platypus popped his head out of the water.
Kieran: I liked the drawings.

Joseph: I liked the way you drew the fire.
Ashleigh: I liked the fire story because I like it.
Ryan: I like your pictures because they are colourful.
Kye: I like the pictures because he's doing good pictures.
Wade: I like your stories and pictures because you make them look good.
Jake: I like the racing part.
Candyce: I liked the pictures in the stories because they make me feel good.
Steven: I like the pictures because I like all the colours.
Michael B: I like your outlining.
Michael H: I like the colours of your picturtes.
Richard: I like your colours, especially the red fire.
Codie: I like your work.
Chris: I like the way you draw the koalas.
Hayley: I like the drawings because I like the colours on the pictures.
Tom: I like the pictures because they make me smile.
Leigh: I like how you didn't leave any white gaps.
Jessica: I like your story.
Rhiannon: I like Max.He looks like a special koala

from Mrs Mackenzie's Reception/ one class at Moorak Primary

lmackenzie@nexus.edu.au
Please write to us Alex.

Subject: Hi Alexander

Dear Alexander,

We really liked your stories. It was a good story. It was the best.

I liked the part where Max saved Joey.

The first grade class of All Souls School, South San Francisco, CA

Subject: his story

Hello! My name is Shari. I think your story was exellent! I liked it alot.

Shari

Subject: To Alex

Dear Alex

I found Max.

He was in our bedroom.

I told him to go home.

Ben

Subject: Response to Max story

What a darling story... Maybe Max's next adventure could be about all the interesting toys he meets inside the toy box of a child in the USA..

What a neat "intercontinental" writing adventure that could become! Keep up the wonderful work... from a first grade teacher, Terri.

You can reach me at terrib@erinet.com

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