Two elementary schoolers from California just had a book published. Where are you in that book you were totally going to write for nanowrimo? The 8 and 10 year old cousins, Isabella Thordson and Isabelle Busath, wrote a book of 158 rules last year, but lost the spiral-bound notebook on a shopping trip one day. When a local Walmart employee found the book in the store and brought it to the attention of the local Sacramento news station, the little girls were reunited with their book, and began to receive offers to publish the growing list of child-wisdom.
The book contains advice like “don’t bite the dentist” and “no pretending to drown,” and the girls genuinely seem to enjoy writing it. To the 158 rules in the original book, 88 have been added, and the list is growing. The book is already available for pre-order on Amazon, and the young authors have plans for a Christmas version as well.
While such meme-like books are becoming more and more common, maybe the two you girls will branch out as they grow older. After all they already have a nice start in writing on a subject that interests them and their friends. Simon and Schuster is publishing the book, complete with copies of the actual pages of the books and charming little illustrations of the girls dispensing their invaluable advice on life. The girls even shared their thoughts on the book with Fox 40, with 8-year-old Isabella predicting that we might feel a bit surprised and intimidated by the young authors.
Lots of people are going to be saying ‘oh my gosh these little girls wrote books.
Isabelle, meanwhile, expressed more practical concerns, explaining that,
If I knew this would have been published, I would have wrote a little neater.
While I understand the need to perfect something that will be scrutinized by the public, I’m sure the writing is charming and will be wonderfully relatable to kids who pick up the brightly colored guide to life. The girls are also glad to know they will be able to keep the original copy. They at first thought that they would lose their spiral bound book in the publishing process, but became quite excited for the book to be published once they were sure their original copy would be safe. The rule book will come out in October, but in the meantime we’re left to contemplate the fact that oh my gosh, these little girls wrote a book!
(via Jezebel, Fox 40, image via Amazon.com)
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