Children’s Book
My group is doing a children’s book on acceptance and appreciation. It’s about a girl named Molly who is a tomboy whose only friend is her widowed dad. One day she and her dad are fishing in the lake by her house. It’s quiet then suddenly her reel starts tugging harder and harder pulling Molly in closer to the lake. She doesn’t give up without a fight pulling back a huge silver fish. With fins so long and wavy like hair. Her father asks with a drooling mouth, “Let’s fry it and eating it,Molly.” ” No, I want to keep it as my pet.” “Okay if that’s what you want”, Molly’s father says disappointed. They go home and Molly puts the fish in her aquarium in her room. That was once filled with lots of colorful fishes but when her mother died the fishes did too. She out the large silver scaled fish and look at it. “I’ll call you Angel.” In the past week, Molly would talk to Angel like Angel could understand her until one day Angel responded. Angel told Molly she was a magical wishing fish that can grant unlimited wishes. This was so unexpected that Molly almost fainted. In one week Molly made a thousand wishes. Mostly the wishes were about making her popular and getting her the latest things. The first three wishes Molly was very grateful. Then Molly stop saying thank you and started being unappreciative Angel. Angel couldn’t take all this rudeness and she began to die slowly. One the last night Angel had to live she told Molly did. Molly was so upset. She didn’t see how she was changing. When Angel died Molly cried for the first time since her mother died.
In the project we’re doing I am the writer. My job is to write the plot of the story and to work with the illustrator on what to draw so the drawings match up with the writing.
