Possible Future Author

Over the last couple of months, Jewell has been creating stories that she types up on Google Translate. It started out as her typing a few sentences so that she could translate them into different languages (Russian is her current favorite), but it has morphed into her typing longer and longer short stories. Most of the stories are adaptations of stories she is currently obsessed with. The bonus of her using Google Translate is that she can have it read back to her and fix any errors if it doesn't sound quite right. Her sentences are getting better (although she still has trouble with of, a, the filler words) and her stories are getting longer.

Here is what she was working on this evening:

"Moby. I get books. Hey. What is an Eric Carle? The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Brown bear, brown bear, What do you see? The Mixed-Up Chameleon. The book called. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. What is The Very Hungry Caterpillar? One Sunday morning the sun came out and, pop-out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar. He started to look some food. On Monday. He ate through one apple. But he was still hungry. On Tuesday. He ate through two pears, but he was still hungry. On Wednesday. He ate through three plums, but he was still hungry. On Thursday. He ate through four strawberries, but he was still hungry. On Friday. He ate through five oranges, but he was still hungry. He built a small house called a cocoon. He in stay more than two weeks. Then we nibbled a cocoon pushed and way out and. He was a beautiful butterfly! Awesome butterfly. The book called. Brown bear, brown bear, What do you see? What is Brown bear, brown bear, What do you see? Brown bear, brown bear, What do you see? I see red bird looking at me. Green frog, green frog, What do you see? I see a purple cat looking at me. Teacher, teacher, What do you see? I see children looking at me. Children, children, What do you see? Roar! The book called. The Mixed-Up Chameleon. What is The Mixed-Up Chameleon? The chameleon saw a zoo. It had never seen so many beautiful animals. The chameleon thought.  How small I am, how slow, how weak! I wish I could be big and white like a polar bear. And the chameleon's wish came true. But was happy? No! White."

Her current obsession is Eric Carle books. I copied the above exactly as she had written it. A lot of it is from her memory and is from her 3 most favorite books at the moment.

Here is another piece she worked on earlier in the evening:

"The Spring. Hi. I'm Bonnie. Pat-pat-pat. Clever's patting. Darla's patting. Ed's patting. But more help. Fast. What's this? It's a butterfly. The butterfly flies in the flower. What's this? It's a frog. The frog jump. It was not me. What is a sound of the spring? A bird. Right. Everyone say. Flap flap flap. Flap flap flap. One more time. Flap flap flap. Lower. Flap flap flap. We didn't"

And another from before that:

"The Birthday Party. Art by Edward Hicks. And. Music by Jonathan Sebastian Bach. Hi. I'm Darla. Ready. Set. Go. Birthday pieces map. First. We need a turning piece. Next. We need a clapping piece. And the end. We need an up and down piece. Balloons. Gifts. And cake. What is the holiday? Birthday. Right. Pat-pat-pat. Darla's Patting. Froggy's patting. Sally's patting. But he was pat. Faster. Turning piece. Does a turning piece? Yes. The library. The books. What is a sound of the birthday party? A party horn. Right."

This one seems a bit inspired by "The Little Einsteins".

She doesn't always finish what she was working on before she scraps it and starts with a new train of thought. I don't care that they aren't perfect. What I care about is getting to see a bit of what is going on in her head after all this time of not really knowing.