The other day I saw my daughter sitting at the table with her markers. She told me that she was making a book.
In case you can’t read it clearly, the page says: BEARS, RACCOONS, MICE, RATS, BULLS, BUMBLEBEES. Complete with thumbnail drawings. I suppose to help you recognize these things, though all the drawings look oddly similar.
What you never noticed the striking resemblance between a bear and a bumblebee? I especially love the horn on the bull, which really looks like an antenna.
And what could the title of this book possibly be?
ANIMALS YOU SHOULD NOT TOUCH
Sounds like pretty good advice to me.
Love it! I think that while you purge most artwork pretty strictly, that one is a keeper.
Comment by Brigitte — May 26, 2008 @ 7:00 am
how cute is she???
Comment by meg — May 27, 2008 @ 6:40 am
This is soooo very cute. I also have a couple future writers on my hand, I hope.
Comment by beth — May 28, 2008 @ 10:59 pm
this is precious~my oldest daughter writes, draws a lot of books! when she was younger and at the back page of her “book” she wrote the letters DN, when I asked what that was she told me she didn’t know how to spell “the end” so she wrote DN!!
Comment by Jodi — March 9, 2009 @ 11:03 am
Brilliant! Wanna do something really cool for her? Take an ink pad OR a felt-tip marker. Mark-up your thumb, then quickly stick it on to a sheet of paper, whereby transfering your fingerprint. The thumb print is now the character’s body. Next, take a pen to start adding features, to show her how to turn your print into a bee, butterfly, etc.!
I originally got this idea from Ed Emberley’s Great Thumbprint Drawing Book. Amazon shows you real examples of these characters. Once you see a few, the sky’s the limit on your imagination!
To give you a quick example, I’ll explain how to make a bee. Put your fingerprint sideways. The tip of your thumb will now be the bee’s “nose”. Make a little side-ways “v” for what will look like a nose. Next, draw on a bunch of lines all over it, from top to bottom. On the top (side of your thumb print), draw two wings. Add some upside-down “v” shapes for feet on the bottom. Shade-in the body, and you’re done!
Good luck! She’s totally precious. By the way, I can tell she’s going to have great handwriting one day!
Comment by Jen — April 5, 2009 @ 5:07 am
My kids love to make books with their finger prints..good job!
Comment by bubbles — April 6, 2009 @ 3:32 pm
My daughter loves to write books too. Little Golden Books actually have blank book kits that come with markers, stickers, stencils and colored pencils. She loved making it, but they’re a little pricey so I started getting her hard cover journals to use. I try to find the ones without lines so her illustrations will not be “uninturrupted”, but she doesn’t seem to mind them too much. She’s really gotten into the stencils lately.
Comment by DorasMom — June 29, 2009 @ 12:10 pm
Save that book for when she is an award winning writer and illustrator and then when you are interviewed on tv produce it in all its laminated 20 year old glory to show where it all started
Comment by Joanne — July 29, 2009 @ 12:36 pm