Emliy Twet

Last weekend Wee was “helping” me fix things in the garage – but she got bored.
So she asked,

Can I draw something?
uhhhh, yeah!?

And in the cold of the garage she started, very quietly and deliberately.

After 20 minutes I was done with my task and told her I would move upstairs if she needed me – she followed a short time later with her pad and pencil in hand.
After 30 minutes she paused to ask about the black pencil lead all over her hand but during the entire hour she only paused to stare out the window for short periods of time while she considered…something.

I didn’t pay much attention, happy to have some “peace and quiet” doing my own thing.

Suddenly (to me) she announced she was done and asked me if I’d like to hear her story.
I’m lucky I had the wherewithal to start a recording and later I took pictures of her drawings.
She also defined the title of her story, on the fly, while telling me the story and, based on that, she drew the cover page at the end.

I’ve compiled the pieces, together here, in a video as narrated by the author and illustrator.