What a great idea. Although his vocabulary is still quite limited, Arram jumped right into his storytelling responsibility. It seemed like he was just waiting for an opportunity to be asked! He told a very nice story using just a few words augmented with lots of pantomime and facial expressions. Here is Arram's story. Because it was largely visual, I have taken some liberties to convert it to text so that you can share it. But I believe this version is entirely consistent with the spirit of his tale.
The Hurt Turtle
There was a turtle. Hello turtle!
There was a dog too. Hello dog!
The turtle and the dog played. They wrestled.
But the dog played too rough. Grr!
So the turtle's foot got hurt. Oh no! Owww!
The dog felt sad that he hurt the turtle. He kissed the hurt. He hugged the turtle. He did gentle touching.
Then the turtle was happy again!
They went home together. Bye-bye turtle! Bye-bye dog!
4 comments:
What a wonderful story. It is right up there with "Oh Cocco". Here we have all the ingredients to a great story: wonderful appealing characters, action, conflict, crisis, resolution and a happy ending. I love happy endings! Good night, little tTurtle. Good night, Little Dog!
Umm...I think somebody needs to grab the copyrights on this one asap! What we need is an illustrator and you have a book authored by a toddler showing how to play nice with friends.
Cool story, Arram! Good job! Both boys are wonderful story tellers!
Thanking your Dad for directing me to this entry more than 5 years after you posted it Allie! (Today is Feb 5, 2016) What a cute story - and the way you describe Arram's expressions while telling this precious story mean so much more now that he will soon be seven! With all the pictures recently posted from Doug's blog and all the recent Skype visits with Grammy, he has become quite the artist with his facial expressions!
And I also agree with "Gypsy Girl" that we will need an illustrator and a publisher for his (and Amiri's) most excellent stories!
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