Stanley and The Very Messy Desk…Is HERE!!

Soon after I wrote my first book, My Pencil Made Me Do It: A Guide to Sketchnoting I realized there was a whole group of educators, non-educators, and most of all, children who would never read that book. I also knew I didn’t want what I had to share, to say and teach about sketchnoting to end with that book. Most of all I knew I wanted to continue to connect sketchnoting, its parts and its power with more and more people (if I’m being honest…the whole world). I couldn’t think of a better way to do that than to write a children’s book. 

When I did it became a story that is all the parts of my heart…

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Stanley The Hamster and #The23DayProject

It all began when I saw snaps of snapchat artists and their drawings. I was in aww of their playfulness and use of doodles in real life. I wanted to do that too.

August last year I was unpacking boxes in my new classroom. As I looked at the boxes I had left to unpack I suddenly an idea. What if my classroom had a pet. It would need to be something fast and easy to draw…what about a hamster. I picked up my phone, used the drawing option in snapchat and drew my very first Stanley the Hamster.

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