Monday, January 21, 2008
Reading Rainbow Contest
Emy has enthusiastically decided to enter the Reading Rainbow Writers and Illustrators Contest which requires that she write and illustrate her own book. Within 15-30 minutes of making her decision, it was done. It's a book about an apple tree and a boy who wants to eat the apples, and eats them all before his family members can stand in his way due to their own various self-centered reasons - one sibling wants the apples for his own, one sibling thinks the apples are not ripe enough yet, the little one agrees with big sister (just to be a little BLEEP), the mom worries about his appetite for dinner and the father, well...the father eats a white crayon and is not too concerned over the whole apple business at all since he has to be rushed to the hospital and cut open by a doctor. That's the story, the whole nut, no nutshell. I, of course, think it's brilliant. A boy with a plan, and the world be damned. The only kink -- the author has selected the title "John Henry" for the book; which I believe needs a bit of revising.







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2 comments:
sounds intriguing...makes me want some crayons. right before i read this blog i was picking up a basket of apples in the kitchen. one fell out and i said to myself..."self" the apple is bruised and smooshy now so i will throw it away.as i launched the defective fruit into the garbage I thought ...how wasteful. then i read the blog about apples...cool! goodluck with that story.
Mmmm... Crayons.
Randy
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