Once upon a time, I was a little kid. A little kid who read very well and got bored easily sitting in circles with other children my age and reading about puppies.
So I wrote my own “reader”… This is a recreation of it, more legible, but with no content modifications.
My teacher was not exactly amused. She was concerned that I might be dealing with emotional issues. Back before they talked about emotional issues much.
I was just writing my first parody. Such began my career… I think I was six.
Category: Inspiration for Writers
Danielle Hoglund says:
My 6 year old wrote a series of stories called “101 Blankies of Doom,” complete with illustrations showing why you can never trust untamed blankets. I’m pretty sure he’s not dealing with any serious emotional “issues” either. He’s just got his own take on the comic horror genre.
Lia London says:
Love it!
Ayd says:
Teachers should be worried about the kids who don’t express emotion, don’t make jokes, don’t make up silly stories, don’t push boundaries, don’t experiment, don’t doodle and don’t invent secret worlds. Those are the kids throughout history who DO have emotional problems.
Lia London says:
Amen.
Rolando says:
This is funny! But I was more macabre than you. In middle school I wrote with some friends the “Blirt & Blort” book. As I recall these made up onomatopoeic names made a reference to the aftermath of various events such as getting leveled by a steam roller or parachutes failing to open. Thankfully no teacher ever read it! : ^ O
Lia London says:
I would have loved to have students writing that sort of thing instead of the blither I got…
Ayd Instone says:
When we were learning French at school, I was becoming progressively worse and worse at it as time went on. We had a really out-of-date text book that had a hateful comic strip character called Mr Jazy who would do all the boring things that we had to learn: post a letter, buy some bread etc. For my homework I did a replica comic strip called Mr Jazy et les Aliens where the character was kidnapped, tortured and killed by some aliens. The teacher passed no comment whatsoever. If I find the book in my jaunts into my attic I’ll scan and post it…
Lia London says:
Oh, I hope you find it!!!