The Bad Apple

Our boy is an author this week.  He was coloring on Monday, and then told me that he wanted to write a story.  He's never mentioned anything like that, and I happened to have my sewing machine out for a couple projects I'd been working on, so I grabbed some paper and sewed him some books. 

He got started right away, and took quite a while to write a really cute story about apples.(This pic is actually from today, when he was working on a different story, but I didn't think to take pictures the first time he wrote one, so this gets the point across)
 
The first page I wrote for him and then realized by the second page that I could just tell him how to spell things so he would practice writing himself.  I didn't realize until well into the book that he wasn't putting the letters in any certain order, just all over the page.  :)  I remember when Paige thought it worked that way too, just as long as all the letters are there somewhere, it must spell what you were planning on writing.

He has since written 2 more books, but I was playing with Paige and Neely during these, so I wasn't able to follow along as closely to what they're about.  I do know one is about Mario and Luigi.
 
This drawing of them in the book, with their "M" and "L" hats makes me so happy.
 
 I still know the apple story though, since I was helping him the whole way.  It's the cutest.  There is a group of apples, all different colors.  I'll narrate it for you.

Front cover:
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Apple Family (and below, that's right-BFF)

Pages 1 and 2:

Red apple:  "I have an idea!"

Build, build, build (the apples are building a rainbow bridge)

Pages 3 and 4:



The "Bad Apple"(he really called him that) shows up and zaps their bridge with his lightning power while laughing his evil laugh.  One of the apples trips and yells "WOAH!"

Pages 5 and 6(this is where the story goes a little off track, but it's adorable):

snowflakes fall(on the right) and the apples all say "AMAZING!" except the green apple who says "Well, this is boring."  Also, one of them trips again.  :)

Pages 7 and 8:

The apples decide to go after the bad apple.  They begin their trek, and one trips again, and another says "Well, this is pretty easy."  The red apple, who is the leader, says "Keep going!  As long as we work together!" This page just about makes me cry when I think about Cason writing and illustrating it.  This is TOTAL Cason stuff.

Pages 9 and 10:

They all team up, shoot colorful lasers at the bad apple...

...and defeat him, no problem.  See the screams of "NOOOOOO!" and the "X"s for eyes?  Page 9 includes the "BFF" again(appropriate, since 9 is the page of teamwork), and we finish off with "THE END" on page 10. 

Oh, wait, nope.  We finish off curtains on the back of the book.

 People needed to see this book, and I needed to write down the story before I forgot it all.  So, two birds, one stone.