My story about my love for writing stories began when I was in first grade.
I was extremely shy and did not say much.
The school must have thought there was something wrong with me because they sent me to see the school psychologist. I cried when he came to take me to his office and I didn't want to go.
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Show and Tell
I don't even remember much about that psychologist, but what I do remember from first grade was where I shined.
We had show and tell in first grade and I loved it.
I loved showing off my stuffed toys, but the best show and tell ever was when I showed off the little story book that I wrote and illustrated all by myself on computer paper that my mom brought home from work.
The paper was in accordion fan style so I could create little books out of them. The only problem was I had to skip pages because there were green lines where I couldn't draw on some of the pages.
Well, while I was reading my story aloud to the class, one boy pointed out that I skipped a page. To me, that was a compliment because he wanted to know what happened in the story and didn't want to miss anything because he was enjoying it so much! I showed him that the page just had green lines on it and that I skipped that page and continued reading my story.
I don't remember what the story was about and I don't know what became of the story. I can't ask my mom if she ever kept it because she passed away when I was 16.
All I can guess is that the story had something to do with rainbows and unicorns because those were my two favorite things while growing up.
Oddly enough, I haven't yet published a story about a unicorn, but I do have a story in my head about The Plain Little Unicorn that I plan to publish at some point.
I often think about that boy who wanted to hear my story. He didn't care that my illustrations were drawn by a little kid. He didn't care that my story wasn't professionally edited.
He wanted to know what happened in the story!
That's the best book of all!
A book that tells a good story!
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Jessica is the author of the children's books about The Underground Toy Society. She decided to begin a blog about her experiences and opinions of being an author, as well as a mother and Occupational Therapist. Please note all information on her website and her blog posts are her opinions and her personal experiences. Individual results may vary and her results may not be your results or experiences. This website is meant to be general information, not specific advice. Circumstances and results may vary. The Underground Toy Society children's books aim to teach children to love and appreciate what they have. Hopefully children will want to clean their rooms after learning about The Underground Toy Society. However, all children are different and results may vary. The books are for entertainment purposes only. All recommendations and activities should be completed with adult supervision. Thanks for reading!
That's a sweet story, Jessica! To have your writing excepted by your peers is a big deal at that age.
I'm looking forward to your Unicorn story someday.
Keep up the great work!
Rosie