Dotty the Crocodile

Well, this post is interesting.  I was in the basement looking for some old college stuff to decorate my door at school. All the teachers are decorating their doors for the college we attended in order to promote different institutions of higher learning for our students.  So, while elbow deep in a box of high school and college things, I came across a treasure!  A story that I wrote and bound together when I was 13 years old!  I guess I've been dreaming of becoming a writer longer than I was aware.  I didn't have too many grammatical mistakes (except for a few times using you're instead of your) but my story is a bit...dumb.  I can't even remember why I made this but here it is, illustrations included!

Dotty the Crocodile
written and illustrated in 1989
Jennifer Charles

Dotty is a black and white, polka-dotted crocodile.  She was very pretty.  One summer afternoon she was talking to her friend, Cindy, by the river.

Cindy said, "Dotty, I hate you.  You're so pretty and I love your polka dots!"  Dotty didn't know what to say so she just screamed, "Oh my gosh!" 

That night, Dotty was looking in her mirror and realized she didn't like her polka dots, at least not the colors.  Dotty wanted her colors to be pink and blue.  She asked her mom if she liked black and white.  Her mother said, "Dotty, why do you want to know?  Are you thinking about dying your polka dots?  What colors do you want?  Why do you not want black and white?"

Dotty was getting tired of twenty questions so she just screamed, "Oh my gosh!"  She ran into the bathroom and began looking through her dye.

She finally found pink and blue.  She started dying her white dots blue.  When she was done with blue, she put that up and got out pink.  She dyed the black part pink and put up the dye.  Now she was pink and blue.

She met Cindy by the river the next day.  Cindy almost had a cow when she saw her.  "Dotty, you look great!  I love your colors.  They're neat!"  Dotty became even prettier than before, but all she ever said was, "Oh my gosh!"