Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Moment with Margot: Margot's First Book

A few days ago, Margot started writing and illustrating her own story. She did this in her room before falling asleep. Her "writing" consists of random letters sprawled on the upper part of the page, while her [sometimes elaborate] drawings take about 3/4 of the page.
She "wrote" her book in French, and it took her about three days to complete her story. She kept her pages together by using, not a paperclip, but a clip-on barrette (very ingenious!).

This first book is about two sisters, named Margot and Lisa [interestingly, Madame Lisa is the name of next year's teacher]

Allow me to briefly translate:
In this first part, Lisa and Margot's father is dead and then the mother dies. And then the two children find two castles and it's a lovely day "une belle journée".
[I love how Margot uses "elle dit" (she says) ]



The adventure continues:
The girls find their parents and their house and even the butterflies find their parents; in fact, every one in the city finds their parents thanks to Margot and Lisa (?)
I then ask her the title of her story and I think she was coming up with a clever name, going for "LiMa" (a combination of the two heroines' names), but then settled with Simon's suggestion of "Lisa et Margot".

2 comments:

  1. Une belle histoire, très bien racontée. Même les étoiles trouvent leurs mamans, c'est trop beau Margot. Continue d'écrire (et de raconter!) tes histoires, tu enchanteras pas seulement dada et maman mais tout le monde x)

    xxx

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  2. Excellent. She's very expressive :)

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