Ok I don’t know what the correct terms and stuff are but basically her are the rough idea sketches to show where the story is going with a list of the text and what picture corraspondse with what! This are so rough I am a bit ashamed of them but its more a working out […]
‘Mummy it’s raining’ ‘Raining outside’ ‘Raining on the window’ ‘Raining on the roof’ ‘Raining on the cars’ ‘Raining on the trees’ ‘Raining on the grass’ ‘Raining on the puddles’ ‘Raining on the birds!’ ‘Raining on the cat’ ‘Raining on… Daddy!?’ ‘Raining on Mummy!’ ‘Raining on me!’ ‘Raining on all three!
This idea came from a walk at midnight on Halloween with my little girl, ‘Daddy! There’s a dragon!’ me and daddy look to see steam rising from the warm fermenting compost heap into the cold dank night. We then had to go and investigate said dragon to show Jean it was all ok. My plan […]
The Chee Chee Chii are little imaginary creatures that live in our mixing bowls – my little girl is very fond of them and is the only one who can see them 🙂 She says they are 2 1/2 inches high with three legs. They are tri-coloured as in each one in three seperate colours […]
The idea of this is that it is almost two stories – one being told by a little girl in the presant tense as she wonders about the house being bored, the other being shown in the pictures as mum gets things ready for Dad’s coming home party. I have a very clear idea of […]
As a story idea for a board book this one has actually been kicking around for awhile but I sort of forgot about it due to an incident involving aunts’in’law muddy welly’s and paintings drying on the floor – followed by a ‘Jelly Fish do not have eyes, so why have you painted eyes on […]
The Little Book of Festive Poetry is going to be a book to make poets toes curl – it will be full of my family specific references and lots and lots of tacky rhyming because that’s the sort of thing my little girl likes. It will be similar to The Little Book of Spoogy Poetry […]
I have decided to prioritise some of the stories to work on here are the first five I will work on: 6)The Little Book of Festive Poetry 2)What Can I See Under the Sea 29)It’s Raining 17)Chee Chee Chii 3)The Dragon – Compost Heap I have chosen these five fore different reasons – the first […]
Over on Tara Lazar’s blog there are inspirational posts going up to help those doing PiBoIdMo or Picture Book Idea Month 🙂
As I was saying yesturday there are quiet a few things in my ideas list that can be broken down into serials or related stories etc… There is the Liquorish Stories: 1)Wiggliest Tickliest Liquorish 14)Rolly Polly Liquorish 16)Swerly Twerly Liquorish 23)Squiggly Wriggly Liquorish 25)Bootalicous Delicous Liquorish 26)Scrumptous Lushas Liquorish 27)Bobbolly Wobboly Liquorish 28)Scriggly Scraggly Liquorish […]