After being told that we need to think of ideas for our new project being the book for children.
I thought about doing something like adoption, seen as my little brother is fostered and lives with us until he is 21 and he has lots of siblings some older and some younger. The younger ones all got adopted and he doesn’t see them and he finds it very hard to understand or deal with. So this gave me an idea to create a book for children his age (12) or even younger to understand.
My first thought was to maybe use animals instead of humans as children tend to understand and enjoy books more if its about animals. I started to think of which animal to use and remember that pandas are often abandon by there mother so children can relate, also pandas are pretty cute.
Research on Pandas!
http://www.chinahighlights.com/giant-panda/life-cycle.htm
When a panda is first born they are helpless and need taking care of for a few months, they start to crawl around 3 months and around 4 months can run and take a few steps, around 1.5/2 they tend to leave there mothers at there decision.
The main reason that pandas don’t look after two babies is because baby pandas need so much attention when they are born so the mother picks which one she wants and normally after birth the other babies will die. Another known fact is that the father has nothing to do with the raising of a baby at any point.
http://animals.mom.me/animals-mothers-abandon-after-birth-9940.html
I started to look for drawings of pandas to get an understanding of them and draw up some ideas of how I could like the characters to look for my story.
