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.