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Climate Tales was launched by 大象传媒 Radio Scotland in March 2021 to allow children to write short stories, poems, monologues, raps; whatever form they enjoyed to tell us about their hopes, fears frustrations and opinions on climate change, and write their works in under 500 words.

We received hundreds of entries from across Scotland and every single one was read by librarians, from our partners at Scottish Library Information Centre, across the summer.

The winning stories were chosen by our expert judging panel including children’s writer Anne Fine; poet and children’s author Dean Atta; writer and broadcaster Janice Forsyth; Len Pennie, a Scots spoken word artist and poet; CBeebies presenter Rory Crawford and athlete and television presenter JJ Chalmers.

In each of the categories (5-9 years, 10-13 years, 14-16 years) the judges awarded a Gold, Silver and Bronze award.

Everyone also received a Climate Tales bag filled with books!

The Gold winners also had a workshop in 大象传媒 HQ in Glasgow with author Ross McKenzie to find out more about how books are published, what it’s like being an author and his best tips for writing.

All finalists’ entries featured in a special radio and television show for the grand final.

You can listen to the Climate Tales radio programme hosted by Kaye Adams on 大象传媒 Sounds or watch it on iPlayer.

These are the gold winners from each category.

This poem focuses on how the world has and could change because of flood waters.

In this story the sun is a big sister to the earth and we hear how she’s watching her sibling being ruined.

This is a letter to earth to explain what’s going wrong and how we might stop climate change.

These are the silver winners from each category.

In this we’re taken to a fictional island called Ellistray, off the west coast of Scotland which is home to lots of seabirds and wildlife.

In this we hear the story of Mia, a green sea turtle and how warmer temperatures are making life very difficult for this species.

In this monologue Olivia relives the night she was arrested for not doing enough to help prevent the climate crisis.

These are the bronze winners from each category.

A turtle who loses his family and best friend because of plastic in our oceans is the focus of this shorty story.

This story is about an iceberg and a family of penguins, Walter and Wilma are mum and dad and have two kids Will and Wendy, we hear their struggle to find fish to eat.

Set in the North Atlantic we hear how a politician and his secretary are stranded in the ocean and how their decisions led to being in such peril.