In the fifth grade at First Street School in East Los Angeles, my best friend Georgiana Yamaguchi and I were the artists in class. While the rest of the class studied geography our teacher, Mr. Lingenhaus let us make a book on dogs. We chose the topic. Since we both loved dogs, trained the neighborhood dogs and held dog shows it was an obvious choice.
The other day when I cleaned out my papers I found the book!
It's funny because all these years later I remember sitting at our desks side by side drawing these dogs. The book is held together with white yarn. Most of the yarn has disintegrated but a little remains.
We colored in the dogs with crayons.
And drew light pencil lines on the paper so our sentences would be straight. After we wrote the text with a ball point pen we carefully erased the lines with a pink eraser.
This post should be titled "Back in the Good Old Days."
I have the first book that I made in school, too. Aren't they treasures?!
ReplyDeleteIrene, my first book was a totally plagurized book I read about a giraffe called Georgie! I had a very hard time learning to read, but when I did, the first thing I wanted to do was write a book! I love your dog book... the drawings are just beautiful! You're so lucky to have it still around. Best, Michelle
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