SCRIBBLE

THE WEDDING PROCESSION of SCRIBBLE and PRINCESS AURORA and WHO WAS IN IT
A drawing and storytelling project.

In the book Scribble, the characters Emma and Lucie each have a ”favorite thing” that they like to draw the most – Emma likes to draw princesses, and Lucie likes to draw kitties. Do your children have a ”favorite thing” to draw? What is it? Trucks, monsters, dinosaurs, horses…?

SCRIBBLE AURORA

Read Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Story “The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It.”*

At the end of Scribble, the story says that Scribble and Princess Aurora are married. Who might have come to their wedding? Suggest that other drawings would have come to the wedding - the children’s own drawings! Even if they are trucks or monsters…

Ask the children to collaborate on a story called “The Wedding Procession of Scribble and the Princess Aurora”. Read again some passages from “The Wedding Procession…”, those that describe the groups in the procession such as the Chubby Chubbs or the Musical Soup Eaters. Using any medium, ask each child to create his or her own “group” for the procession and to write its description – ie, “…and next in the wedding procession of Scribble and Princess Aurora came the Trucks. There were all sorts of trucks: garbage trucks, pickup trucks, eighteen-wheelers, and they came in all sorts of colors…”

Finally, make a long banner that ties all of the children’s drawings and writing together, so that it looks like a long “procession.” And, “…It was a grand procession, don’t you think so?”



*This story is found in collections of Rootagaba Stories, by Carl Sandburg, or as the picture book The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It, illustrated by Harriet Pincus.


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Deborah Freedman is the author and illustrator of SCRIBBLE, Knopf, May 2007.

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