D, my little author, has written a new book. Unlike his past opus, which was fanfiction, this is all original work. He talked about it for a few days, and today he sat down and wrote the entire thing, asking me for spelling help on a few of the longer words. This time I talked him into letting me scan it (for Nana to read it) before we stapled the pages together into a book.

C came up while page 5 was being written and informed his brother that he needed to put “the end” at the end of the story. So D wrote it on the back of the the page.

As you see, it’s a Halloween story about a bat and ghost who are friends. The “playing outside” includes a crescent moon, and the tv has antennae – which I still think is hilarious (they always draw tvs with antennae) because we haven’t had rabbit ears on our tv in over a year now, I think.

I emailed the story to my mom and That Man (who is out of town again). D read the book to me about five times, then went and proudly put it on his bookshelf.