The girls really love when I tell them stories...they ask for a new story every night which becomes a challenge for the following reasons: 1. I'm not creative enough to come up with a new story every night.
2. I don't have a good enough memory to remember stories from when I was a kid.
But I have created two interesting characters that they love.
The first is Archibald, the Littlest Knight. The idea here is that Archibald is a knight in a kingdom of a really righteous, kind King. The King loves Archibald and when problems arise - such as an Ogre attacking a village, rescuing his daughter from pirates, stopping a cyclops who is causing havok cause he lost his contact - the King sends Archibald. He has an entire army of other Knights - bigger, stronger, more egotistic. But he always send Archibald when it matters because he has a "Heart of Gold". Archibald rides his faithful steed Bill (with acknowledgements to Tolkien) and solves problems not by might, but by being creative, by listening, and through kindness. He never attacks or fights his way out of a problem. And inevitabley by doing this he makes a new friend that comes to his rescue in another story. So it's fun like that.
The second story is about JuJu the Dragon. I told the girls about JuJu a couple of weeks ago and they couldn't stop laughing. They liked it so much, and it was so fun to tell it to them that I'm hiring an artist to help draw a series of pictures of JuJu and I think I might try and print it for the girls (maybe self-publish?). The artist that I liked the most sent me a couple of samples which I really liked (see above). If it turns out nicely, I'd like to maybe give out copies to my nieces and nephews, friends and family, to see if others like it.
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I want to know more about Archibald. Those girls are lucky to have you. You are a great dad Bud!! I'm really impressed, probably because I often times feel like I have no imagination at all.
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