Brain-Storming While Writing a Children’s Storybook
Unicorns are stereotypes,
Gnomes, fairies and dwarves have
all been done,
dinosaurs are passe
tales of social responsibility have merit,
but getting tiresome, how much global
warming, bullying, environmental teaching
can we absorb?
Should I use lyrical text with colourful illustrations?
Fiction or Non-Fiction?
Science, numeracy, oral language teaching
with scaffold learning and cultural values
using frogs, bears eagles and ravens,
a possibility but...
How about surreal, whimsical and verging
on the bizarre or fantastical
Just for fun!
Is my main character a child in an adult world
an animal as parable or metaphor?
Then do I cast pigeon, crow, seagulls
or squirrels, if my squirrels wish to migrant
South do they travel by Greyhound bus,
with other animals? What luggage do they take?
Can they text?
Will a racoon family live in a Ford Pinto,
in a remote forest with a social media presence, or
a Canada Goose who suffers learning disabilities,
a navigational impairment tragically
loses his way to Mexico only to connect
with a flock of swallows heading for Capistrano
meeting the love of his life sadly to be rejected
by their families living a life of obscurity,
but happiness, in suburban San Diego.
The swallow and the goose escaped the stereotype,
so it seems there is always a lesson to learn.
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