Project Alpha has written another book, this time a sequel to his “Bat and Ghost” book, “Bat and Cat”. He’s already plotting book three in the series, which will be titled “Bat and Rat”. Clearly he has already discovered the benefits of formulaic sequels, even at age 6.
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Bat and Ghost
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.
The Gronckle Book
Twin B wrote his first book. It is, of course, a fanfiction, based on the popular-among-little-boys-everywhere “How To Train Your Dragon” fandom. He illustrated it, told me the story, and I wrote it down for him. He wrote the title on the cover himself.
"The Gronckle Book"
Page 1
Page 2
And here is the text:
Fishlegs was having fun with the Gronckle on Dragon Island. The Gronckle was not having fun. He wanted to bonk Fishlegs in the head.
So he flew and flew and flew, and knocked Fishlegs’ helmet off. And then he bonked him in the head.
The End.
(Fishlegs is one of the Viking teens in HTTYD.) We have seen this movie three times now, and it hasn’t even come to DVD yet, and they have several of the books and all the McDonald’s dragons (thanks to my mother, I didn’t even have to buy two dozen HappyMeals to get them: she found a McD’s that had all the dragons, bought up the 8 or so the boys were missing – times two, of course, one of each for each of them – and mailed them to us. The boys were ecstatic, and the dragons remain their favorite and most-played-with toys), so it isn’t surprising he should be writing about them.
I’m very proud of him, of course, and That Man and I are pretty delighted parents that Twin B wrote this little story. He’s very creative. The illustrations show he clearly had this story in mind when he was drawing it – he was very definite about the order the pages went in before I stapled them together into a “book”, and – in typical writer fashion – he had a few pages that didn’t make the cut. At first I thought he was just drawing a half dozen pictures of Gronckles, but there really is a story there. You can see Fishlegs has his horned Viking helmet on in the first scene, and his hair is showing in the second as the Gronckle knocks him in the head with its stubby tail.