You get a sneak peek at the book Gwen is writing at school -- her very first book! This is an early draft, and there are no pictures yet, but here it is. For your reading pleasure, I have preserved as much as I could of her original language.
The very nice caterpillar by Gwen/Miranda
one day a egg hatched. a baby caterpillar came out it. It looks like a pink and red caterpillar.
one day a baby bug was eaten by a ladybug. Then the caterpillar looked at the ladybug.
Hi said the caterpillar.
Hi said the ladybug.
and the caterpiller ate on.
One day the caterpiller saw a cat.
Hi said the cat.
Hi said the caterpiller.
One day the caterpiller made chrysalis.
the ladybug looked at the caterpiller. the cat looked at the caterpiller.
One day the caterpiller came out! only it is a butterfly!
bye said the cat.
bye said the ladybug.
bye said the butterfly.
fly away! said the cat.
fly away! said the ladybug.
One day the ladybug and the cat saw the butterfly.
Hi said the cat.
Hi said the ladybug.
Hi said the butterfly!
The end
What do you think? I think a star is born!
Notice the juxtaposition of the banal greetings of the ladybug, caterpillar/butterfly and cat against the horrific backdrop of the ladybug's carnivorous impulses! Observe the caterpillar's wordless acceptance of the baby bug's brutal murder -- clearly a reference to the hazards of peer pressure! Only when the caterpillar changes (metamorphasizes into a butterfly) can he "fly away" from his modest and somewhat brutal beginnings. This is an ingenious, subtle commentary on life as we know it today!
Or at least an excellent first attempt.
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