My Five-Year-Old WROTE That!

My Five-Year-Old WROTE That!

In my opinion, a five-year-old boy is too young to have his own blog.  This leaves me no choice but to post my son’s work on mine.  As far as I know, no child labor laws have been violated.  Besides, he wrote the poems for the kindergarten poetry day, not for me.   Since his kindergarten will not, at any point in time, become the sole and proprietary publisher of his poetry, no copyrighting laws have been violated either. Generous royalties will be paid as requested by the writer.  They will be in the form of backpack decorations and a remote control robot. 

Poems by Tyler D.

Writer’s Age: 5 (and a half)

Poem 1

Once the Lorax went to a hill and found a log.

Then he rested on the log.

Poem 2

Once there was a frog,

On a log,

With another frog!

Important Disclaimers: No children, animals, or trees were hurt or treated cruelly during the production of these poems. The opinions expressed in them are solely of the writer and do not represent the opinions of the blogger or the rest of her family.  The writer does not support or suggest cutting down trees but, being an artist, simply expresses what he sees.  Any resemblance of or reference to a fictional character is exactly that—a reference to a fictional character.  Neither the writer nor the publisher promote or support the production of the newly released motion picture, The Lorax.  They neither suggest nor deny it as a possible source of inspiration or influence.   While the writer owns a frog, any resemblance of the frogs in Poem 2 to the frog that the writer owns is purely co-incidental.  The frogs in the poem are the product of the writer’s imagination and constitute a work of fiction.  The writer is in no way suggesting or supporting the reproduction of amphibians or their use of tree stumps or limbs, but is simply noticing frogs’ occasional and most likely, accidental, companionship occurring on logs.  Both poems are deemed appropriate for young audiences by a set of undisclosed parents of five-year-old boy/girl twins.

Fairies Away!

Fairies Away!

Imagine my surprise when a friend told me that Daisy Meadows, the author of countless daisy stories, is not a real person.  I thought the woman loved writing about fairies so much that she changed her name for the sake of her fictional fairy mission. 

No one knows exactly why five-year-old girls become fascinated with predictable  stories--lacking as much in plot as in character development--in which two friends, Rachel and Kirsty,  battle the evil Jack Frost and his goblins to help the fairy kingdom retain its magical prowess.  No one with the exception of the mythical Daisy Meadows and a very real army of ghost writers who got the formula down for getting five-year-olds hooked on their books knows.

I don’t know about you, but I can’t tell the stories apart.  They all blend together replicating one another.  Since I can’t ruin a story that repeats itself over and over again, I can tell you that in every book Rachel and Kirsty succeed in protecting the fairy kingdom, defeating Jack Frost and his goblins.  I know that the fairies have different colors and magical powers assigned to them.  Which fairy goes with which color and magical power, you might ask.  If you as a parent can answer this question, give yourself a gold star! I would have to struggle to remember their individual names and powers.  I also know that it’s almost impossible to tell Rachel and Kirsty apart as the two seem to be cloned to me.

As for my daughter, she’s doing what all her friends are doing along with millions of girls across the country—looking forward to getting a different fairy book out of the school library each week.  She is as dedicated to getting and listening to the Daisy Meadows series as the rest of her peers.  I wonder if she will recall any of the cloned stories or characters years from now.  I know I will, but only because I’ve read the same story in each of the series’ books.