The first is a book Number One wrote in first grade. I don't have a scanner, so instead of taking pictures of every page and really slowing down your browser, I'll just post the text. Commentary is in italics.Chapter One: My Mommy
My mommy is a great great writer. She's the best writer I ever knew.
Yeah, cuz she knew a lot of them when she was six.
Chapter Two: My Daddy
He plays Chase the Monkey. Daddy is the lion and we are the monkeys and the lion chases the monkeys.
Daddy is obviously the fun parent.
Chapter Three: My Little Sister
My little sister named [Number Two] is very, very, very funny. "One movie that both of you like," said Mommy. "Okay, but we watch my movie first?" asked [Number Two]. "No, we're only going to get one movie," said Mommy. "Okay, but we watch my movie first?" asked [Number Two]. "Yes," said mommy.
Number Two would have been 20 months old at the time. She's much smarter now.
Chapter Four: My Grandma Tee
Grandma Tee is a very, very, very, very, very, very good sewer. She sewed our dresses for Uncle Andy's wedding.
Chapter Five: My Uncle Andy
My Uncle Andy just got married to a girl named Nikki.
Chapter Six: My Aunt Nikki
She is very beautiful. She has dark brown hair.
Chapter Seven: My Grandpa Chip
When we went to the tower that we can see all of Dallas, Grandpa Chip spit on my glasses and I spit on his glasses and we wiped our glasses off. He also is a good kicker.
Yes, ew, and yes, this is totally my dad. I have no idea what he was kicking that so impressed Number One.
Chapter Eight: My Grandma Patt
Grandpa Chip and here were fighting to kiss me once, so I crawled away without giving them a kiss.
Typos are exactly what was in the book, which was typed by her teacher. Number One think they were typed exactly as she wrote them, but despite our general satisfaction with this school district, I have never been impressed with their typing ability. I'm sorry, teachers should NOT be fluent in Typotic.
Chapter Nine: Miy Aunt Cindy
She babysits sometimes
Poor Aunt Cindy, that's all she got. Since there's no period, I have a feeling the typer got interrupted and missed some stuff. Though Number One did draw a picture on the page afterward and didn't add any more text.
Chapter Ten: My Uncle Kenny
He's just like my daddy. He tickles me a lot just like daddy.
Chapter Eleven: My Uncle Bob
Uncle Bob spoils us rotten. He took us to the pool once. That's spoiling us rotten. He and us were fighting and he threw me and Alex up in the air and we landed in the water.
Good thing my kids don't get to spend a lot of time with Uncle Bob, what with that spoiling rotten thing!
Author Page
Hi my name
[Number One] and I'm
six years old.
I have a lit-
tle sister nam-
ed [Number Two] an-
d she's two ye-
ars old.
This page was hand-written, and I thought the hyphenation quite creative.
They also found a box full of old racetrack. Number Two and J spent, like, an hour setting up an elaborate track, and then it wouldn't work. I cleaned the contacts on the cars and the track itself, but it wasn't working, so they took it all apart and did a simple oval. Once that worked okay, they added some switches and a loop. They weren't the only ones who had fun:
The two kitties who are allowed downstairs were alternately attracted, confounded, scared, and then excited by the little zippy things flying around. Fun was had by all.
Until they got bored.
6 comments:
I didn't see the author page of the book. Are you sure that was there?
Yes, want to come see it?
Yes, be right there.
All my kids published books have a special space on my book shelf. Their school made hard covers for them and everything and then they had an author night.
Our cat always loved chasing the cars around the tracks. Cats are really quick when they strike.
Wow, hard covers? Fancy! :)
That's some good stuff from the boiler room!
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