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So, I’m in charge of introducing the winter solstice at my daughter’s preschool since we are the only ones that celebrate it, I think. And the books for that age group are pretty, non-existant. There are some reasonable ones for 5, but I couldn’t find one at the library for 3. So I wrote one. Last night I illustrated it with an old broken oil pastel scrounged from my daughter’s art caddy, and then colored it on my computer, and this morning I cleaned up the formatting and exported it as a PDF. It is very simple and short, I was aiming for something in the style of Maisy, but obviously I am not as practiced an artist! Or author.
You can print it out double sided on 8.5″x11″ paper, and then trim it to the black lines. Should you actually want it! I should put up a web version, but as tomorrow is the solstice, which is our major holiday, I am rather out of time! But since tomorrow IS the solstice, I wanted to share it tonight. I will try to make a web viewable version next week.
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Add Yours →I’m pretty tired, so it just took me 15 minutes to see the link for the PDF–LoL! I love it! Thank you for making this and sharing it with us! I’ll read it now (even after the fact) and have it handy for next year!
Thanks! I think on the last page I need to replace the star on the tree with a sun… My preschool teacher read it in class, and said, “and oh, see the star? Now they are celebrating Christmas!” And I did a virtual face-plam. But either interpretation is fine. I think of the sun as a star, I had forgotten that most people think of the star of Bethlehem when they see a star on top of a tree!
i know what you mean, when i finally got to reading the pdf – i loved -underlined loved- the story and illustrations, but also thought at the last picture, it should end with the sun ( a sun on the top of the tree would do it, or the sun on the end paper.)
thanks so much for this, it’s a great contribution to kid lit – publish!!!
Thanks Jennifer, it had already fallen off my todo list! I do need to fix that up though, before it gets downloaded too many times! 🙂 All my energy this week has gone to decluttering. But we are making progress.