Cartoons is the theme for this weeks Make-It-Monday. I don’t usually do a lot of drawing, except with my two boys. But this week I was inspired by a picture story book we had borrowed from the library; “It came with the Couch” by David Slonim. This book has us in hysterics and it was very comic-like, in that the pictures told more of the story than the words did. It opens with “We needed a new couch”. . . . What the pictures showed was the dog ripping it up and then the couch coming out of the window, with a trail of flames behind it. So the family finds a couch with this character on it; they tried to removed him but he was stuck, and he soon becomes part of the family.
Our family spent the next few days referring to the book; Did he come with the television? Did he come with the bed? The three-year-old was particularly taken with the idea of this blue guy becoming part of our family.
So here is my tribute to David Slonim’s “He came with the Couch”.
Michelle
femmy said,
April 26, 2008 at 6:27 pm
beautiful! love the story too!
Carolyn B (vintagepix) said,
April 29, 2008 at 4:19 am
He’s a cutie – I’ll have to look for that book next time I’m at the library
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