In college, I took a class called Children's Literature. The professor offered one hundred extra points to create a children's book. I took him up on the offer, wrote, and drew illustrations for my book called Never Ever #1.
It was a fun project, the original book was completed in its entirety with pen and ink and colored pencils on a 22 page sketch pad.It now resides on a shelf.
What follows are the panels created electronically for possible submission to editors.
Panels 1 and 2, to lead off the book. Basically a thesis statement for the story that follows.
The other panels I created are kind of scatter shot. They do not follow the chronology of the book. I wanted to create a smattering of panels to convey what the book would ultimately look like.
The story is fairly simple. An average kid is always being out-done by a nice-looking blond kid and it makes him more determined to achieve great things. Over time, he becomes really successful by never giving up on his goals. At the same time the blond kid becomes a famous formula one racer, then, at the end of the book, dies in a fiery crash. The last panel shows that the average kid (now an adult) is happy about it. He leans back in his overstuffed chair in his corner office and says "Second Place Ain't So Bad."
This book sounds kind of awful now that I type it all out like this.
At least my professor gave me all one hundred points.
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