The Oyster's frighteningly prolific streak continues unabated.

( Sausage Tomato Café, Maid Marian, and the Leaf Villain )

I just love these stories so much, you're getting more of them.

( More from the Oyster )

Couldn't resist recording this before recycling it - it's one of the pieces of scrap paper on which niallm and I write to the Oyster's dictation, for him to transcribe (this is infinitely less irritating than spelling out while he writes in real time). It's from October, back when the stories were rather less sophisticated than they are now ( Read more... )

I'm kind of fascinated by how the Oyster's storytelling skills are developing. His current method is to dictate the story for me to write on scrap paper. He tells it fluently, while pacing up and down like a lecturer, then copies what I've written into his book, adding illustrations as he goes ( Read more... )

From the Pen of the OysterThe Oyster is mostly writing books these days. He's still really into the logistics of book production: to the existing panoply of detail (page numbers, contents pages, barcodes, blurbs, etc.), he has added a full-scale copyright page, with the publisher's name and address, copyright statement, rights statement, and ( Read more... )

[cross-posted to Who Teaches Whom?]

The Oyster has been immersed in two things lately: (1) maths, and (2) writing books. I want to note down some of this stuff before I forget it, because it's cool.

Maths

Following on from this post, the 1 2 3 5 4 thing sorted itself out pretty quickly (without intervention, incidentally). The synaesthesia ( Read more... )

We played Snakes and Ladders this afternoon, on a board that I drew and the Oyster coloured (he is all about making games at the moment ( Read more... )

Oyster: Would you like to be a musketeer?
Mama: Not particularly.
Oyster: Why not?
Mama: I'm lots of things - I don't really feel I need to add any more at the moment.
Oyster: What are you?
Mama: Well, I'm a writer, and a mother, and someone who makes things, and a friend, and ...
Oyster: And a singer, and an educator, and a children-keep-safer, and ...
( Read more... )

Oyster: I need my lunch RIGHT NOW! RIGHT NOW!
Mama: Yeah, me too. Tell you what, if you whine loudly enough, I'll be able to make the lunch appear.
Oyster: *thinks about this for a minute*
Oyster: *adopts funny voice* I am Physics. Just saying something and then it happens is against Physics, and Physics is very strong - bye ( Read more... )

[cross-posted to Who Teaches Whom?]

It's wall-to-wall numbers at the moment. I don't know how many sets of Numberjacks I've cut out of paper in the last week. (For the uninitiated, the CBeebies show Numberjacks is about superheroes who are also numbers and solve maths-related problems ( Read more... )