Dear Internet, please come and look at the pictures what I have drawn in today's post. They have horses in them and everything.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
A Story About Horses Based on Conversations With My Daughter
This is another of those posts that your reader won't pick up, unless I write something here to tell you there are pictures to look at.
Dear Internet, please come and look at the pictures what I have drawn in today's post. They have horses in them and everything.
Dear Internet, please come and look at the pictures what I have drawn in today's post. They have horses in them and everything.
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That is indeed a lovely tea. It is raining here and I was going to go look for horses, but thank Esme for helping me to know not to go look for some because there isn't any :)
"There aren't any horses, it's raining" was my end-of-tether response to Esme's nth request to go and look for horses, during the Spring Bank Holiday weekend. She still believes me.
Love the story.
Love the illustrations.
Thank heavens that these are good, clean-living dancing horses, and they have never strayed from the path of two shoes.
The end.
Love it.
Can I tune in next week for the second installment of Palace of the Two-Shoed Dancing Horses? Please? I mean, assuming it isn't raining, of course.
I love this.
What do them horses do when it rains?
Erm, I mean, SNOWS. See how intelligent I is? I is an American, after all.
Oh, God.
Love it, love it, love it. Now where are all the children's book publishers out there???
You really should look into publishing. I'd buy them and I don't have any grand children.
I was always picky about books and your stories and illustrations are better than anything I've seen out there.
That is SO beautiful and sweet - are you a professional illustrator?
You really should get it published!
want that castle to go and play in it and have tea and cake (or death) when it's raining, i.e. most of the time!
where's latawyna, though? at the back in the smoking chambers?
I don't even like horses, but I love this story!
Just darling! I love how happy and carefree these horses look. Esme is a lucky little girl!
But the horses arn't wearing shoes at their tea. Don't you guys dress up for Tea? Love the story. Lots of funh.
I would buy these stories. :)
Ok...you have to submit this for a children's book. This is great.
I'm interested in knowing how the horses get up and down the stairs in that pretty palace. I assume they're spiraling? Horse CHALLENGE. I bet the one who lives at the top is constantly rolling his eyes. (Or is there a horse lift?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3kaf3rZ2aQ
"She said that she knew that the horse has trouble getting down the stairs, but then so do old people, and THEY aren't shoved in a stable."
I love that you spent those few minutes looking that up. I spent those few minutes with my face screwed up trying to think of a terrible pun involving floor-to-floor transport and horse-related words.
I really love your illustration style :)
I think those horses are related to kidney beans.
Cute shoes.
I was going to say "I think you should get this published", but I see others have already beat me to it so let me just say I second, third, and fourth the publishing idea!
Antonia ... these are seriously f***ing brilliant. If you can write and draw children's stories like that then I agree they should be published.
This is published. Here. It'll earn me exactly the same amount of fuck-all on this blog as it would on the shelf of a bookshop, and this way no one has to pay for it. :)
Voice of reason here. I can't put a blog in a child's hands.
I just read this to my three year old and she sat there with a big smile on her face - especially at the horses having tea. The first thing she said was "is there any more?" so I said we'd ask. Please, is there any more? Is it ok if I print off the larger pictures to make a wee stapled book for her? Seriously, I'd rather read this little story than the majority of the dreck served up to kids in the form of books.
Awesome. Can the horses two-step?
Jacqui, that's possibly the sweetest thing I've ever read here. Please do print it out, and when I've had my coffee, I'll ask Esme what the horses do at night.
The horses can four-step! They put in lots of practice, you know.
so cute!
but why did they only have 2 shoes? haha
Only Esme knows the answer to that. That was one of her details.
My guess is that it leaves the front two hooves free to do fiddly tasks, like tying shoelaces.
Now I want some lovely tea!
My daughter loved your story so dearly that she is working on coloring in all of the pages and had me email a link to her second grade teacher. The teacher wrote back and said once the pages are colored in, she can show it to the class! Esme's story is famous!
Aw! Colouring-in! This is making me really happy.
Oh how I adore your drawings...more, more!
What a perfectly lovely story.
That made my day :)
*claps hands delightedly*
Fucking fantastic!!!
Thank you so much again for a lovely lovely day (and thank you to Esme, too, for being so charming...and So Slow!)
I am here in Geneva, and the Y and Z are reversed on the keyboard, and I keep losing the apostrophe and exclamation point.
A squirrel jumped up on my lap outside of St. Paul's later that evening, by the way -- I lured him over with the last peanut in my pocket.
Hugs to you...
Oooo, I'd love to print this out too for my 4- and 5-year olds who are head over heels obsessed with all things horse-y and palace-y! Please? You and Esme really should go into children's book writing, love it!
Please do, Reen! It makes me very happy to think of little people enjoying it.
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