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While I created the Small Hands Creating Hope project as a way of raising money for the American Cancer Society, it’s been fun to see my six-year-old daughter Emma put our copy of the book to use. She has spent hours scouring the many projects, and has plans to recreate every single one!
For her first project, she picked The Purple Girl book that was submitted by Kitchen Counter Chronicles – and then turned it into a series! The Purple Girl does get cancer at the end of the first book, but – as in my life, and hopefully all cancer patients’ lives, someday – she gets better.
The purple girl grows up, meets a green boy (who isn’t quite as dedicated in his wearing of green clothing as the Purple Girl is in wearing purple), and they get married and have baby girl twins. I love the pregnant belly on the cover of the third book:
I am so pleased with how the Small Hands Creating Hope book turned out. It is truly inspirational – and full of fun, creative ideas for kids. If you haven’t already, please consider donating at least $15 through this link to the American Cancer Society. As a thank you, we will send you a link to download the ebook, as well as links to purchase a paper copy, if you would like.
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That pregnant tummy is SO cute!
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Her drawings are amazing, and I love it that she created a series!! Wow!! The pregnant belly is super-cute, too. Wonder where she could have gotten inspiration for that??? :)
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She did such a great job on her book!
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That is so cute!
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MaryAnne, she did such a beautiful job! I love her illustrations. Too cute. Do you think there will be a third book in the series? :)
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maryanne Reply:
June 16th, 2012 at 1:17 pm
Maybe she’ll write a book about the baby girl twins growing up :)
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There are so many great ideas in your ebook. I love that Emma has made a whole series of purple girl books. What colors are the baby girl twins?
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Oh my goodness! I love this! So glad that our little project inspired your little one to create! What an amazing book the Small Hands Creating Hope is!
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maryanne Reply:
June 16th, 2012 at 9:06 pm
She LOVED your daughter’s book! Thank you so much for the inspiration.
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Oh my MaryAnne. This book is way too cute! I am so looking forward to this type of stuff when my girls are older :)
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maryanne Reply:
June 17th, 2012 at 8:52 pm
Thanks! Getting glimpses of their creative minds like this is definitely a fun part of having an older child!
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what a precious, precious project… brought tears to my eyes.
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I love Emma’s drawings – so very creative!
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She is very talented!
I love her book!
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Isn’t a child’s creativity inspiring?!
on this note I wanted to share these links with you that might just give you and Emma (too :) ) many ideas:
http://www.makingbooks.com
Her blog:
http://blog.susangaylord.com/
Another site I am not too acquainted with but also about bookmaking:
http://www.bookmakingwithkids.com
Hope all is going very well for you in your fourth pregnancy! How’s the heat for you?
Love,
Tara
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maryanne Reply:
June 23rd, 2012 at 2:30 pm
Thank you for sharing those links, Tara! They look fantastic!
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maryanne Reply:
June 23rd, 2012 at 2:31 pm
And yes, all is going well pregnancy-wise! It got HOT this week, but we have central air conditioning, so I can’t complain :)
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