Lexi's First Publication

Lexi's teacher sent home a packet for The Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest. Her teacher thought that this was something that Lexi would enjoy and she was right! When I sat Lexi down to write her story, I opened up her writing tablet and noticed she had already written a 3 page story so we decided to use that. Invented spelling is admissible, so I did very little correcting. The following is her submission. Sorry for the poor quality. I took pictures of the pages.


"The Two Princesses
Written and illustrated by Lexi Ann Lewitt"


"Once apon a time, there was a dragon. He lived outside of a tawer and he blowed fire."


"The tawer belonged to a king and a queen and princesse's."


"But there was a wicked witch nearby. The witch was trying to catch the princesses." The princesses in the picture are screaming, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"


"The witch put the princesses in the dungeon. The princesses stuck now."


"The wich is gone catch the king and the queen too. The princesses tryed to get out...but the witch came bak." The witch in the illustration is saying, "Oh queen Oh king Where are you?"


"The witch put the king and the queen in with the princesses. They are trapped naw."


"Then the princesses' fairy godmother came to the rescue."


"But then princes came to marry the princesses and they lived happly ever after."

Here's a shot of her working diligently on the piece.