(All words typed in green are Mama's thoughts and comments; All words typed in Pink are Abby's words).Princess Abby's Show and Tell for today is:
Story Telling at it's Cutest!!!!
I was scrambling to figure out how to use this little recorder that I bought several months ago, when I heard Abigail start 'reading' her made up book to her little brother after school was finished today! She rambled on and on, taking cues from the things around her as I struggled to keep a straight face. She was adorable!!!! It went on for 8 minutes, and that was after I missed the first one of her little random stories while trying to figure out the recorder. I finally got it working, and will put a little excerpt from her long story for her Show and Tell today.
Abigail: "There was not a little Lou. So little Lou always played with the lion for ever and ever. And that is the story, but there's one more story about Little Lou." (This was the tail end that I caught of her first story after I figured the recorder out).
Can you tell me the first story of Little Lou?
Yeah! The first story of Little Lou. By Jan Caret Carl (the cutest made up author name I think I've ever heard!!!!)
There was a little basket and it had lots and lots of books because it grew bigger. And he put more and more and more books, but his dad said, "Throw away the one's you like and keep the ones you don't". And get the one's you want because you can buy them at the library, because this library was so sound that they decided the workers, or the workers decided that library could be a buying library instead.
It's the story of Little Lou. And the tiger, Little Lou. The Tiger Little Lou was so special to his dad, so the mom did not like him. She didn't like him at all, so what his mom did--she throwed him in the trash! But little Lou in the trash, turned into the baby trash can. And then something else happened. His mama trashcan was walking away, but he did not cause he couldn't walk. So what happened, he was lost in the house. But he was in his Mama's trash so it was okay. (At this point I couldn't control my laughter any longer, but she was excited that I thought it was so funny.) So what happened, he got a plate and they cooked the baby trashcan! and his Mama did not get cooked--for real!! And then before they ate him he was not hot anymore and he was not cold anymore and he was not warm anymore. He ran off on top of the tv where they couldn't reach. But they had pictures on the tv and the pictures were bigger than the tv and they were on top! So he climbed up on the pictures so that they couldn't get him cause they could climb up the tv, but they couldn't climb up the pictures. And then they had the candle back and he turned back into a tiger! But what happened was that nothing happened to him again. So he had a handle up like in the first story and his candle blowed off itself. And it wasn't right because his dad was the one who blowed it off really. But he could not see his dad when he first blowed it off. That is the end.
She told this story with such expression and smiles that you could even tell it was meant to be a comedy. We had just read Pete's a Pizza, where a Dad and Mama pretend to roll him into dough, stretch him out, put peperronies on him and cook him. Then they cut him in slices with their hands. They loved the story, and I could tell she really drew a lot from it. If you would like to read this story, it's called: Pete's a Pizza, by William Steig.
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