My 10 year old daughter, Jessica, came to work with me over her Halloween Half Term break. While I was photographing clients she was working away at my desk, colouring, cutting, sticking, and folding, pieces of paper. With a final “TA DAAAAA” she presented me with a paper ‘book’ featuring cartoons, a front and back cover and even a thick spine with her name as author. All from a couple of pieces of A4 paper!
It was too good an idea not to make use of as family Christmas presents so I encouraged her to re-draw the cartoons on squares of paper, and suggested that if she could think of a few more stories, we could perhaps put together a book.
She ended up with 7 stories, some were long, a couple extremely short. Most show her sense of humour, attention to detail, and an artistic flair she didn’t get from me!
After scanning them all into the computer we sat together this evening putting the pages in the correct order and uploading for the book to be printed. We are ordering enough copies to cover grandparents and sundry other interested parties and I can’t wait to see her face when she sees her work in print for the first time.
In the meantime, if you fancy a laugh, you can see all the stories over at Jessica’s Flickr set. Any comments will be passed on to her.
P.S. The pets are real, the annoying boy is real, she doesn’t have a sister, Papa is real but I can’t vouch for the names of his fish, and as far as I am aware she has never tried to squish a ghost in her life!
by Susan
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