My nephew, Cedar, who is four years old and lives on a farm in Kansas, wrote a book for me yesterday. Since he didn’t know how to mail it to me as I make my way through Central America, his mother (my sister) transposed it into an email. I guess I’ll have to wait a few months to see the illustrations, but I’ll share the text of Cedar’s masterpiece here. My sister promises Cedar made it up entirely on his own.
Here it is:
Page 1
A boy looked into a microscope, and his daddy asked what he saw. He said he saw God.
Page 2
A boy was walking in Bethlehem. God was alive, and the boy bumped into him, and God jumped on him.
Page 3
A boy was in a dot. God stepped on the dot, and the boy popped out of the dot. And God said, “No, stay in the dot.”
Page 4
Once upon a time, there was a man that was poor. He saw God walking. The man asked for money, and God said, “You will have to find your own money.”
The End
December 10th, 2003 at 1:48 pm
Rolf, loved your nephew’s book. Very Zen, very pure! Life in four pages, four lines. I’m still laughing.
December 20th, 2003 at 6:40 am
Excellent story! I really like the part where humanity is told to stay in the dot. So clear. Stay in the dot, get your own money.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
The first page is amazing. It’s deep. I don’t know any four year olds that write things like this. It’s very impressive.