Writing a 50 word children’s picture book is a lot more challenging than it seems. I am entering Vivian Kirkfield’s 50 Precious Words Contest for the first time. As usual, it’s an environmentally themed manuscript. Let’s dig in…
PUPPY PLANTS A TREE
By Andrea Koehle Jones (50 words)
Who can help me
plant some trees?
I can! I can!
Can I p-l-e-a-s-e?
Watch me plant,
Here I go…
Diggity-dig,
Watch them grow!
NO Ned, no!
Not in my hair.
Would you prefer them
on THIS bear?
NO! In the ground,
Let them grow,
Okay gotcha,
now I know.