Published on Thursday, 27 March 2025 at 2:15:47 PM
Introducing Banana Split by Logan Baharthah
Hundreds of young storytellers imagined a better, healthier world — and one hero rose to the top.
We’re proud to introduce Logan Baharthah, whose imaginative entry captured the hearts of our judges with its creativity, positive message, and powerful storytelling.
Through the Healthy Hero Competition, we saw just how brightly young voices can shine when given the space to create.
Meet the Young Writer
Here’s his winning entry, in full:
Transcript:
21/03/2037
Hello, my name is Peely. You may be thinking, ‘Hmph, that’s an awfully weird name.’ But guess what? I’m a flippen banana, guys. I’m a banana. Alright, enough of the banana stuff. I am 27-years-old, and I have a little secret. I’m H-E-A-L-T-H-Y. That stands for healthy by the way. Every morning and every night, I serve myself a platter of fruit and veggies. Two different fruits daily and five different fruits daily. If you don’t know already, follow me down to my basement. I tamper with the door knob, but I eventually open it. I hike down to what seems like an elevator door. This is how I go to my secret banana base. I slowly breeze my hand onto the door. Coming up, the doors celebrated open. You’re just about to get your eyes peeled.
22/03/2037
The warm air flows right through my squishy body. Ah man, I’m starting to get mouldy. I take my very first step through the very fancy doors, I realise that it smelt a bit different. I know what you mean, aren’t you just smelling yourself Peely. But I promise I’m not smelling myself. My eyes start scanning around the room as I notice that my computer was still turned on from last night. I strolled along over to it and tapped my fingers onto the very fragile keyboard. My homepage reached out into my face alerting something very dangerous to me, and could harm my street. ‘Alert, alert. Intruder breakage, I repeat, Intruder breakage!’ Alerted the computer.
23/03/2037
I twist my head left and right. But, I don’t spot anything in sight. I knew what had to be done to save the Earth. KA-THUMP! There behind me was a strange figure, with a really round head. I spin my head backwards. There is a strange figure, with an oval head, which is really lumpy by the way, just observing me from the roof of my basement. I put my full attention back onto the round head man, or woman, I really can’t tell. He starts backing away from me. Really, what is he doing? Coming when I least expect it. The man starts lunging straight at me. Letting myself control take over me now. I leap out of the way.
24/03/2037
The man gets more in focus, so now I can uncover what he really looks like. His head is a flippen tomato. He gets back up to his feet, but doesn’t look at me for some very strange reason. I use this opportunity to speed off to my secret locker of equipment. The door automatically opens for me so I just burst into it. Insanely quickly, my eyes darted around the room for what I’m looking for. There, in the back of the room, is what I needed to find.
25/03/2037
My costume, seven metres high and two metres across. My black eye mask, my worn out red cape, my black gloves and boots. ‘Oh, yeah. It’s You’ve Been Peeled villains!’ I exclaimed. I slowly hike to the door and it opens. And later, I am met with the tomato man. I reach my hand into my secret holder inside of my cape, and pull out a grappling hook. He suddenly lunges at me, knowing a second before he did that. I used the hook to launch myself to a ledge just right above me. In the nick of time, I just manage to dodge right out of the way. Tomato man crashed down to a gigantic pile of wooden boxes, and tower tumbles over on top of him. He suddenly stops moving. I think I might have killed the poor man. I cock my head right at the man with the oval head. I can see him better now than before! He’s a corn on the cob!
The End
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