My daughter Emma, who just turned 5 three weeks ago, wrote this tonight. She's written stories before, by dictating to me as I typed, but this is the first one she's done entirely on her own, writing it all out by hand on a piece of paper. We are a family of bookworms and writers...
Emma Butterfly's Easter
The night before Easter was a special night for the butterflies. Emma woke up in it. Emma called her Mommy, "Help! My dreamcatcher's off, I can't reach it...unh..."
"Why don't you get the stepstool?"
Emma got the stepstool and put it on her bed and reached the dreamcatcher.
The End
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- Sharon Hurlbut
- Physical anthropologist, writer, compulsive knitter, and mother of two. My fiction and poetry are published under the pen-name Ann Walters.
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2 comments:
Awww. Too cute. How wonderful.
It IS pretty cool that she seems to enjoy it (almost) as much as I do.
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