Unfinished Business

When I was a child, I used to write stories with pictures. If I didn't go into physical therapy, for sure I would have been an English and Fine Arts major. This writing and drawing itch still lingered for years that when my second child was born, I enrolled in a distance writing course for children through the Institute of Children's Literature in Connecticut. Spring cleaning led me to one of my assignments in 2002 which I wrote with a picture book in mind for preschoolers. I meant for this to depict a Filipino rural life which would introduce children to a different culture while teaching them numbers. This also reflects my love of rice! I started illustrating this week and will finally finish this before my youngest child goes off to college! I'll just save this book for my future grandchildren. :-)

FIVE YUMMY RICE CAKES

Five yummy rice cakes baking on the clay pot.

Fire beneath and fire on top.

Cried the five rice cakes,

"We can't stand it anymore!"

Out, jump the rice cakes off to the floor.

FIVE YUMMY RICE CAKES, page 1

I'll work on the illustrations of the the remainder of the story and share it here as soon as I'm done. Find out what happens to the rice cakes! :-)

Tag: Children's Book