I first started capturing her storytelling using the video mode on our digital camera, around about April, but she soon refused to let me film her. So I tried writing her stories while she told them, using pen and paper. That lasted for only a few stories too, before she caught on. Since then, I've been recording her using a mini MP3 recorder, which is pretty unobtrusive, and transcribing the audio later. She then objected strongly to this as well... Nowadays I use a combo of MP3 and video to record her before transcribing. I only manage to record a fraction of the stories she tells. I always have a backlog of stories on the recorder that still need transcribing, as it's impossible for me to keep up with her. To help new readers, I've marked my favourite stories with a star (*), so at least you have somewhere to start if you don't know where to begin. Don't forget to check the older archives too - there are some gems in there as well!

Thursday 27 September 2007

Mr Hole, 2007-09-03

Contents. Contents. Page 1 - The Land of Corip. Page 2 – They want Corip they learn. Page 3 – The Knowledge of Bad Design. Page 4 – Where they looked out. Page 5 – Turn the page and find the letter, the letter, so.. Page 6 – They looked out on the Sea Serpent. Page 7 – They looked back. Page 8 – The coat behind. Page 9 – They didn’t look. Page 10 – They did their part.
(Note: She often starts her stories like this, mirroring the layout of her book props that have content pages. This is similar with her not infrequent starting of a story with its title followed by author’s name, illustrator and publisher; and also how she always gives a chapter title whenever she sees the word “Chapter X” in her book props. This is because I always read her this information whenever I read to her, before starting the actual story).

Corip Bean. Corip Bean was sooo terrified to see those noises and banging and stuff. Until the whole ground was shaking with banging lands... night.. Mr Hole..

Chapter One. Corythosaurus painted a house.

Corythosaurus was painting the house so long and whole day, but there were no Mr Rat Hole, nobody else. Only at night, but there were no nice things, only a knight came, and came and came and came near the open seas of the kinkeed(?). Kinkeed was.. was little mouse. Little mouse with, got a pink neck, at the.. at the..

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