Judah, the author.

My soon-to-be six-year-old, theatrical, pirate-centric, budding-writer son wrote this "book" for me Monday night after writing one for Christy. He took a brown paper sack, cut it into strips for pages, and then dictated the stories to me and to Daddy. Christy's is held together with clear duct tape and mine has a safety pin at the top. On mine, each page has a small illustration of a stick pirate or ship or both. I just noticed that the themes are very similar. Here we go!

TREASURE ISLAND by Judah Rees Todd, 2/22/10, age 5

Once up on a time, there was a pirate. His ship got destroyed by evil villains. They threw him overboard and while he was crying out for help, he went under the water altogether.

Then, as I said, the evil villains sailed away with his ship. The evil villains came upon an enchanted island. On that island there was a pile of rocks with a ring inside it. The evil villains tied their ship to the ring in the rocks.

In that pile of rocks, there was a treasure box. Then, the evil villains took the treasure box and buried it. The whole world fell to pieces and left the evil villains dead in the ruins.

The End.

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This is the book for Christy. This is a book about pirates. this book is about to start.

[NOTE: he had me write that little intro on the first page and some concluding remarks on the last page.]

PIRATES DISCOVERY by Judah Rees Todd, 2/22/10, age 5

Once upon a time there lived a pirate, and he stole gold from every ship that he could set eye on. But one day he found a pile of rocks and in those rocks, a humongous treasure box. He took the treasure box on his ship, but the treasure box was too heavy, and his ship sank. And he had to swim to shore.

All his crew met him on an island. On that island, Captain Kidd's treasure was buried. They started to dig. Then, they saw the gleam of a box. And then they saw the water. The whole island fell to pieces. The pirates had a narrow escape.

They swam in the sea until they came up on a mysterious island. Then they realized--it was enchanted!

Then, a great sea serpent rose out of the sea. He was about to break the ship in two. The pirate captain clicked his fingers and called to his crew, and all the crew got their weapons in hand and cut the sea serpent to bits.

Christy, this book ends. But we would love to make you more books. The End.