Soup Amuck! by Matt Zurbo   Mum, Dad, help! Come quick! I think there’s a fly in my soup. Either that or a raisin, but only one of them might poop! (Kid shouting to someone off page, while pointing into his bowl of soup.) A raisin, somehow I doubt it, unless raisins do backstroke! Geez, … Continue reading Day 348: Soup Amuck!

The Lazy Crow by Matt Zurbo   Maggie was a magician. (Small girl in magician’s clothes, pulling a rabbit from her hat. Crow standing on ground behind her.) Mostly, she worked kid’s birthdays. But she dreamed of something more. “I want power…!” she told her friends, Claude the Crow, Miss Oink, and Sol, who was … Continue reading Day 347: The Lazy Crow

If I Could by Matt Zurbo   (I imagine a classic, fine drawing style, with lots of white line on dark backgrounds, but up to artist. And, for this one, their imagination... Dedicated to Maurice Sendak) These are the things I’d give to you. If I could. The moon. I’d tuck it in your pocket. … Continue reading Day 346: If I Could…

King of Birds by Matt Zurbo   Ali always went out on his Dad’s crayfish boat. (Kid running after Dad, who is in fishing waders, stepping onto crayfish trawler, there is maybe two or three seagulls sitting on boat.) It was a fascinating world. (Kid looking through crayfish pot at crayfish.) (Dolphin’s jumping out of … Continue reading Day 345: King of Birds