It all started with Martha, who was 4 at the time but is 6 now. Sometimes I tell her well-known stories, in the car usually, and I've noticed that they improve on each telling, often due to her input. next I wrote them down. And the next thought was let's publish a book under the title “ten stories your child should know”. This title isn’t meant to imply that I have surveyed all the world’s stories and come up with a top ten. They just happen to my top ten, selected from amongst the stories I happen to know.
There will be a preface addressed to the adults, suggesting common themes between stories, or other points of interest.
My next big hurdle is to work out what age range I am writing for.
Stories I have in mind, some already written, some just a twinkle in my eye, are Adam and Eve, Prometheus, Oedipus, the Thousand and One Nights, Midas the King Has Asses Ears, King Lear, the Tower of Babel. I need at least one Irish story, and one Scandinavian.
What about China, Africa, America … ? I need to do some research do I not. Suggestions welcome. Would I find the right voice though? If not it wouldn't work.
The book, by the way, will never happen, but it’s fun to pretend.
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