"Let me tell you about my backyard. There are many things to hear. I like hearing the red fox tiptoe through the night. Some mornings I hear a train huffing and puffing a mile away. Every morning I like hearing the robins play me an autumn song."

Warren Nunley, 5th grader in Mrs. Jones' Class, Red Bank Elementary

Artwork by Chase Lambert, a kindergartener in Ms. Smith's Class, Oak Grove Elementary.

The Junior Ambassador program is spawned from Columbia's Official Children's Book, Charley's Columbia Backyard by Caroline Coleman Bennett. To find out more about this leadership program, go to www.BAreader.com.