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[aft writes silently] is he gonna write back to me? well we're gonna xxx. add your address. so he knows the place to send it to. [makes sound with his throat]. this is my sloppiest writing. this is your sloppiest writing? yeah. oh. as long as it's red read readable. okay. shoulda went with a pencil. you can switch. I'm...
[coughs]. now you needta sign it www [laughs]. done. okay. you wanna put your address so he knows... you could put it... I don't know. in the corner or underneath your name? this is a personal letter. [won't show to Mot] why are you hiding it from me? it's a personal letter! done. great thanks. thank you very much. tha...
yeah. [for the record, Chi wrote a short but sweet letter to Mot, not to Eric Carle] oh I didn't know that. so this xxx write. xxx Chi thi this is what you write to? %int: indicating that it's not sufficient [laughs]. Mom I wrote to him before. mm? I think that would be enough. you can write better than this. Mom. %int...
no. okay. = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/HSLLD/HV7/LW/brilw7.cha = = = [Home Visit 7] you figure out the story and I'll do the writing 'cause I know you hate the writing. Dear Mister Carle. I like the colored pictures in The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I also like the face in the moon. and the same thing on the third page. Tha...
what was the... okay what do you wanna write about the book? unhunh. well you'll hafta help me think. you think. think it's pretty cool 'cause it has lotsa colors on it? and I saw he's writin' on the book with letter. I like this part. wow. I know. it's really kind of a simple book for you Chi but let's just do our wor...
I don't write to authors. well do you remember this book from when you were little? yeah? did you like it then? no. you didn't like it then [laughing] either? alright well you decide. um 'kay I like the picture. that's good. that's... 's that all I hafta say? [chuckles]. a little bit more. [laughs]. well that's a gwa g...
yeah however you wanna do it Chi. it's up to you. we don't mind. [$=2 sounds of Chi writing] I... hm? pictures... [aft sounds of writing] here read it. %int: quietly you're not done. you still hafta do more. oh no [whining]. what did you write so far? I like the color pictures in The Very Hungry Caterpillar. yeah. on t...
reading? writing? um well yeah overall I guess we just said for you to do it together. oh. but h you're doing a great job Chi. what else did you write Chi? what did you write next? I also like the face in the moon on the front and... okay I wrote I also like the face in the moon on the first page. and the same thing on...
I like apples strawberries. strawberries. pears. I don't like pears! like pear. you like pears. ugh! and orange and you tried a grapefruit last night. ick. hated it. [laughs]. I like oranges. 'cause I thought it was orange. well you thought it would taste like an orange and it fooled you. no I said can I have one of th...
I can see it. it's almost one o clock. xxx at two fifty and I still hafta take a shower. mhm. do you... there's still sweat drippin' down my back. how do you wanna finish? if you're done. the end? uh how do you end a letter? uh you usually say see you this xxx. not gonna see him. I know that's the point. uh hm. you can...
thank you Chi. thanks a lot for doin' that. = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/HSLLD/HV7/LW/jeblw7.cha = = = [Home Visit 7] now Mom yeah will you xxx... dear Eric Carle. me and my Mom love your book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. my favorite page is when the caterpillar eats all the junk food. sincerely Chi. now am I sposta help ...
um can we do it in the cursive? do it however you like. you know what you could do? you could put the date up there and then you [? we] can start down here. um February? I think it's the twelfth today. [MOT and INV chat, including discussion of Chi's nice cursive hand+writing. INV askes if they are doing Denilian metho...
dear Eric Carle. I just turned forty. %int: whispering to Mot [laughs]. [reacting to INV's revelation] [talks to INV about her age] dear Eric Carle. okay. whatcha tell 'im about his book? how 'bout me and my mom um like your book a lot? sure. because he already knows a lot about his book www [giggles]. well he probably...
r and e? yeah your. oh no you're right. you're absolutely right. oh boy. %int: embarrassed I'm gonna sit out the spelling portion of this interview. Mom's cracking up. [sighs]. I'm really counting on him to really get the good job and buy the big house for his mother. [laughs]. the job that involves the fact that spell...
'kay read me what you have with your letter so far. okay. uh what we have. d dear Eric Carle me and my mom love your book The Very Hungry Cal Caterpillar. now when you write The Very Hungry Caterpillar do you needta underline that or put it in quotation marks or anything? what does your teacher teach you about that? wh...
sausage. hotdog. weenies! weenies [laughs]? weenies [laughs]? weenies and cupcakes and uh watermelon. Chi just threw up a lot of sausage a couple weeks ago he willn't eat any meat now. and I got food poisoning. [chuckles]. that's alright. that's your body telling you something for awhile. the food poisoning. yup. I hat...
um f a v. hold on. o? [mom is unsure of the o when spelling favorite] r i t e? see your mommy passed that spelling test. f a v... o r i... yeah xxx i t e? the most dreaded thing in school besides math time was the spelling bee [dramatically]. I love spelling and math. hey Maxie [cat]. %add: $=2 cat Maxie [laughs]. come...
that's a very xxx. I have batteries in my room if those batteries run out. [discussion of camcorder batteries (Chi is the expert), then quiet as Chi gets back to work, then Mot comments on how many side conversations the transcriber will have to listen to!] alright. what do you have now? what's your new sentence? um my...
okay. February eleventh um nineteen ninety five. dear Eric Carle me and my mom love your book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. my favorite page is when the caterpillar eats all the junk food. so ha um j u n g k? um j u n k. okay. yep just take your g out. my pen's messed up. okay. that's it. you don't hafta xxx be the one ...
dear Eric Carle me and my mom love your book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. my favorite page is when the caterpillar eats all the junk food. sincerely Chi. very nice. thank you. = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/HSLLD/HV7/LW/jenlw7.cha = = = [Home Visit 7] how do we start a letter Chi? dear Eric Carle. I like the pictures in the...
p i c t u r e s... xxx the name of the story. do I hafta erase the period? no. [MOT talks to EXP and then to another member of the family] two l-s. period. and what else? it has been a long time since I even looked at this book. [laughs]. huh. did you find it interesting? yeah. okay write it down. a good story. very ve...
you already got the r. e? mhm. e. mhm. s t... mhm. i n g? yup. very good. what else? [sighs]. hm? I have no idea what you're writing. [MOT has a quick word with brother?] put an s over there please. now spell much. how do you spell it? m... much tS. [Chi wrote muck] not k. h? yeah. there you go. excuse me go ahead. [MO...
yeah. I forgot the o? let's see now. I'm trying to think of colors. oh god. tha that looks wrong. and I'm gonna say it's wrong but... isn't it sposta be a o there? it's c l o r e s. colors. gosh I forget it too. you know it's funny when it comes to doing their homework I hafta sit there and think okay i if it looks wro...
[whispers to self as writes] [MOT asks brother to get the mail; Mot and EXP discuss Chi's academic discipline (text put into mother interview)] we how many mistakes have you made? what two so far? yeah. compared to what? a lot of 'em. a lot of them. could I look up the word butterfly in here [book]? mhm. do you wanna s...
[aft gives Chi another sheet of paper to write on] thank you. mhm. could I write it right here or right there? yeah you can write it right there. that's fine. oh xxx spelled lots. l o t s. beautiful. %int: whispered what word? I... beautiful. I'm gonna try to sound it out. so sound it... b e... how do you spell beauty?...
oh I didn't hear you say e. u t i. [MOT speaks to another member of the family; Chi looks up spelling in the book] well maybe I ain't that smart. yeah you are when you try. [MOT talks to baby] just that xxx. oh. did you enjoy reading the book? what? did you enjoy reading the book? yeah. I enjoyed reading the book. enjo...
um e? y. j o y. is that an a or an o? I can't understand your writing. it's o. alright. a-s and o-s look awful lot alike. now do I sign my name at the bottom? you can sign it right xxx. make sure you write your last name okay? mhm. he might know a hundred Chis. [laughs]. put it over here. oh. wow. that's great. could y...
yeah. I made you put the s. I thought you were writing something else. you can erase the s. lot of beautiful colors. I enjoy the stories. yeah. can I say that? yeah sure. from Chi [full name]. that is wonderful! boy! that is one of longest letters that has been written. and you did that really quickly too. good job! th...
[laughs]. w w where did you copy it from? I don't know. oh you know what I copied it from? um Petra [another experimenter] actually had a a small version? they have a like a hand held version of this book? oh yeah. so we copied it from that book. oh. but I'm not sure it's like the xxx. should we read it again? and do y...
on Tuesday he ate through two pears but he was still hungry. on Wednesday he ate through three plums but he was still hungry. on Thursday he ate through four strawberries but he was still hungry. on Friday he ate through five oranges but he was still hungry. [sounds of a zipper] oh yeah [laughs] on Saturday he ate thro...
cursive would be nice and it'd be good practice but he hasta be able to read it. on the very top? yup. [laughs]. don't worry about it [laughs]. it's not like adults are any better. yeah. does that [pen] work? nah it works but not that good. uh got a million pencils... ah how 'bout this guy. what's his name Chi? it's I ...
should I write that? yeah if you want. se how do you spell since is it s e or... which one? like your five senses or I feel sense or money? or like every year since I was... oh since alright. since. since. it's s s i n c e? oh you're writing's very nice Chi. you write better than I do. [laughs]. mine's horrendous. yeah...
you're writing how old you are now right? can you get this tape off? [8 54 Bro and Mot talk about a piece of tape that's holding something together, and then Bro talks or sings to himself] what's your favorite part? like when he eats all the food or when he turns into a butterfly or when he's just born? [bef Bro contin...
I like it best when the caterpillar... I think I'll move it over there. you could move it this part off. I don't know why did she put all that tape on it? it's not coming apart. [aft mutters to himself] you didn't write my mother. you just wrote mother and I. [laughs]. oh. that's nice! isn't that good xxx. [laughs]. xx...
[chuckles]. but you know how I showed you how to add a word in sometimes? yeah. you make like a symbol like this Chi? you know like a v and that kinda indicates that's where the word goes. oh yeah l l l like a v then up here? right. mom. my. [laughs]. hm. [Chi might have said this] whop! or you can say mother and I. yo...
or eyer... oh! it's right here. oh yeah good because I was stumped [laughing]. [laughs]. xxx a couple of those words. [laughs]. [MOT talks to Bro about the tape again she comments on how it was holding something together. This is followed by sounds of possibly something being taped together.] this pen I hate pens. alri...
but the only thing is when you uh... oh no there's periods in here. I liked it very much. I am nine and a half now. the part I like best is when the caterpillar ate all that junk food but there is one thing... you need a comma there. there's one thing it makes me hungry. [laughs]. [laughs]. Chi [first and last name]. b...
I like your book The Very Hungry Caterpillar because it is interesting and fun to read. I like the part when he start eating a little bit each day until he got sick. I also like the part when he went in the cocoon and then he became a butterfly, and he was so pretty. sincerely, Chi. do you Chi? need to do. no. I rememb...
ow. from the 'ginning all the way up to the end? it's not a long book. ack! alright. [opens the book and flips to the first page] in the light of the moon a little egg laid on a leaf. one Sunday morning the warm sun came up and pop out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar. star starting to look for food. ...
xxx a letter. a letter! mhm. hm? start it from the top? I'm gonna write dear Eric Carle? okay. right. dear Eric Carle. you gotta give me some ideas too. hm. dear Eric Carle... I like your book because it's funny? how about we just read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and I like the book because it was funny? it was interes...
c a t... e r. e r... p i l l a r. I liked your book The Very Hungry Caterpillar because it is... how do you spell interesting? i n t e r e s t i n g. because it's interesting. [? needs an e] because it is interesting and fun? sure. and fun to read. mhm. I like part when he starts eating the stuff? [laughs]. I like the ...
until... %int: quietly to herself after he got sick what did he do? he ate a green leaf. yes he did! and that seemed to make him better and then he went in a cocoon didn't he? I don't know what that's called. how about the part where he went into the cocoon until he became a butterfly? [Chi writes silently] how do you ...
what are you spelling? butterfly. b u t t e r f l y yeah. I was right. hm butterfly. and he was so pretty! hm. he had beautiful colors? if you want. but that's fine the way it is. if you wanna just sign it. but I wanna xxx. would you like a drink [whispers]? %add: the cat you wanna sign it sincerely Chi [full name]? I ...
no I don't want to. %int: whining let's see how it sounds. I heard part of it but I didn't hear it all together. I think you did a great job! whadja say? okay I'll read it. okay. great. dear Eric Carle... uhhuh. I like your book The... oops I forgot the e on the [laughs]... uhhuh. I like your book The Very Hungry Cater...
I only get to read it when they come to my house. we both like to read it together. from Chi and Mom. and we have his home address so we're gonna send all the letters... can I go visit 'im? [laughs]. well we're gonna send your letter to 'im. maybe you wanna ask 'im that or something. I'm gonna ask 'im if he can send me...
oh we have more. we have more paper if you need it. what? okay? there's only that many lines. %int: whines well how long of a letter are you gonna write the guy? [laughs]. [laughs]. long! a long one? you gonna tell 'im your life story or what? yup. [laughs]. first I need a book or something. here's a pen. she's gonna s...
oh you wanna write on the back? okay. you know what though? 'cause that's all slippery. why don't I xxx... okay. yeah but she can put the paper right under that. I can put it underneath here and xxx... wait what if you take this stuff out? okay I can do that. but you know what honey? look if I put this on then it willn...
why is it already starting? because I just wanna xxx... do you needta know how to spell the man's name? no. you don't? y a you gonna write dear? it's e r i c k... no that's your name. e r i c k... right here. c! you wanna put the book... here sit right here. and do it. no! I don't wanna sit on... I wanna sit on the com...
right. but you mean printing. oh I know what you mean yup. that's what I mean. I still know how to hand write though. uhhuh. but I can't read it. 'cause it's so messy. no it isn't. yes it is. I don't think so. I do. I think you have very good handwriting. mhm. oh speaking of which I have somethin' for you. %add: EXP oh...
okay. say xxx whaddo you wanna write? [laughs]? can I... my name is... you gotta tell 'im who you are first. didn't I write sincerely Chi [full name]? yeah but you gotta say my name is Chi [full name]... Chi w why don't you just put it on the table and do it 'cause it'd be much easier. and then I'll just move the table...
yeah. how's that? good. okay. you know what? we'd really love it if she could you know try to write it. okay. no! [laughs]. but you know what? mom's helping you though. no [whines] I don't wanna write it 'cause I keep getting distracted. you're doing a great job. look li listen to Mommy alright? listen to Mommy okay? I...
wanna go sit at the kitchen table and do it? wanna do that? would that be easier? can you bring the chair in? what chair? that one? no I can't... Chi you're really being silly now. I want something comfortable to sit on. yeah? how 'bout if you sit on that chair and you lean the board on the arm? and write that way? can...
yeah whatever. actually some of it's pretty good what he eats. he eats apples and pears and plums. well now l let me show you a little thing th behind this. oh yeah the chocolate cake and stuff I know he eats all this other stuff [laughing]. yeah well that's all... that's making me hungry! %int: loudly, whining and cry...
you hafta write your name? after you write that put a period okay? are you ready? yeah. my mom... you're gonna write my... I thought I was gonna ask 'im for a book. we can do that. yeah. but why don't let 'im know why we're writin' 'im first. why? and at the end you ask him if he'll send you the book. alright? are you ...
what? writing. yeah. w r i t i e. i n g. w r i t... I know! i n g. [Chi spelling writing writieing in her letter] I see you watching xxx! relax she's not even looking at me. she's reading something else. you're laughing and you're distracting me by laughing. can we write the letter Chi? you're distracting me by laughin...
my mommy and I are writing... you... you... done. in regards... in... how do you spell regards? r e... yeah? g u... yeah? a r d s. a r d s done. t to... t o. yeah? your... yeah? book... yeah? called... yeah? The Very Hungry... oops [whispers]. if you needta know how to spell somethin' ask me okay? The Very... you know ...
no h u n... g r y. h Very Hungry Caterpillar. caterpillar. you know how to spell caterpillar? c a t cat... a p... no e r... a p e r? c a t... s yeah? e r... yeah? p i... l l... a r. Very Hungry Caterpillar. period. 'kay. alright. we have read... we have read. %int: quietly could we mention you guys in this? %add: EXP w...
why do we wr hafta m mention the um people in it? well wait 'til you hear m the way I'm gonna put it. we have... did you write that? we read. okay did I say we read or we have read? we read. did I say we have read? I think I did. erase read. [irritated sigh]. lemme see. okay I want you to write have. read... your book....
which kind? for f o r... the last... okay how long have we been with you guys? %add: EXP well since she was three. really! she's nine! so it's been six years! the last six years... [laughs]. mhm. well I thought it was five. xxx yeah. wow. isn't that something? six years period. does he know I'm nine? well I don't know....
[MOT reads the letter over to herself] did you write I have been... did you write I have been? [sighs]. yeah I writed I have been. okay in a... that's okay that's okay [whispers]. %add: Chi [Chi has done something to the taperecorder or microphone? there are banging noises on the tape at this point] yeah? %add: MOT lan...
it is too... %int: laughing whoops! I got it. it's on this paper wait wai wai wai wait. alright l a n g. did you get that right? yeah you did. u a g e. where was it? study... it's right here. see? okay. write study... program... you know how to spell program? Mom [whines] can you write the m? it's too close together to...
the next word? since... I'm just doing some stuff over here. since... I... nineteen... no no no since I... whoops. nineteen ninety five. %int: quietly [sighs]. I... was three. and then he'll just put six and three together and figure out you're nine. mhm. [laughs]. without writing it. [laughs]. uh let's see... put a pe...
now wait a minute. lemme see what you wrote here. alright let's see... yeah I think correct. very good Chi you put the question mark at the end. why wouldn't I? I'm not stupid. here you're not done. [irritated sigh]. okay you ready? what do I hafta do now? I only... okay you can do that. I only... I forget how to spell...
I only get. to read... it... when they come. come to my house. and you just write one last thing. put a period. and you could put we both... it already says... Mommy and I. we both... I know. we both... capital w right? needta move it back over. why do you needta move it back over? 'cause from here it goes down. yeah b...
come on honey. do you have anything besides this? Chi Chi shh. shh! for a minute. okay no we both... [laughs]. I keep forgetting how I'm gonna put this. start here. put we capital w e... like to read it... together. and then you just wanna sign it. right there. Chi and my mom www [Chi's last name]. can you write that? ...
I did so much. yeah she just used my favorite word awesome. and why can't you do the rest? here. you did. you did an awesome job. okay what did I just say now? I don't know. I forget [laughs] too. lemme see how I ended it. we both like to read it together period. um you could put from Chi and her mom. you write my xxx....
what is your address? you know what? why don't we write the other address? we're gonna write it on that... well why don't we write our new address just in case he does send it. you wanna write the new address? yeah. so um you can do that 'cause I've done enough already. alright I'll write that address okay? I'm gonna p...
I made a mistake. I sometimes do that [laughs]. [Chi forgets about keeping the book and focuses on the ice+cream and cake inside. She asks Mot for a popsicle.] that was very good. you wanna put the date on there? there you go. you can. you don't wanna put the date? [Chi goes to get a yogurt. Mot tells EXP that Chi is r...
we both like to read it together. from Chi. [Chi reads the letter in a monotone voice] that's great! thank you Chi. = = = childes/CHILDES_NA/HSLLD/HV7/LW/sarlw7.cha = = = [Home Visit 7] [whispers to Stephanie, who is EX2] dear Eric Carle. I like when the caterpillar ate all the junk food and he gets fat. also I learne...
how do you spell when? wh... en! %int: quickly en. yep. you knew that! what you write the way he eats all this stuff? [laughs]. oh you know what... xxx spell caterpillar? it's a long one. nope c a. [Chi possibly began caterpillar with ter; no erasing on page but first 2 letters of caterpillar are squished in] [laughs]....
j u n k. j u xxx. sorry. junk. [talks with EXPs about coffee] I like when the caterpillar eats all the junk food. okay? and he... what? gets. gets. fat. oh. what about this? [points in book] the cocoon? yeah. oh then he made the cocoon xxx. %int: talking to herself while looking at book you learn about caterpillars too...
I learned... no no no no! %int: lightly. also... I... l e a r n e d. learned [sounds out]. learned. mhm. learned a... %int: murmuring to herself lot lot... lot? next line. about. a. a. b. b u... o. oh! o u t... yeah. about. c a t e r... p. p. a. i. oh!
[laughs]. just because that one letter! l l. l l. a. a. r s. a r s. %int: whispering to herself well I wrote what I wanted to say. what about you? and... okay. I also like. when he is an b beautiful. [Chi talking as she writes; EXP whispering to Stephanie in background] is that in the book? [wants to copy spelling of b...
[chuckles]. beautiful. butterfly! butterfly. [writing as talks] beautiful butterfly. yep. there you go! [can hear Chi writing, signing letter] you can finish it off. write your address. dear Eric Carle. mhm. I like when the caterpillar ate all the junk food and he gets fat. also I learned a lot about caterpillars and I...
[laughs]. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. mem we've seen some other books like this by him too in the store huh? 'member? I always point them out. okay... for my sister Christa. you want me to read it to you really quick? can you just look at it? so that we... [Chi says something in a sing song voice] have something to......
and um... you're telling it in your own words. but it got even more hungry. and so it ate um real lot of things. uhhuh. and then it felt sick. [laughs]. you didn't even read it and you know... so then so then it had a tummy ache. uhhuh. so it ate and then the next morning he um ate um some leaves. and um then he was re...
that helped me [laughs]. mhm. I thought I'd do it quick for you and you did it quick for me. [laughs]. terrific. wow that was the whole thing. okay. so let's see... [clears throat]. mhm. um so the first thing we're gonna do is write the date right? and Dear... who are you writing to? right? do you wanna write that down...
no. come on. put it down. okay xxx. now is this where you can... you're writing wrong. oh yeah. salutation? [laughs]. xxx always mixed them up with xxx. y you're opening the letter and you're addressing it who are you gonna address it to? oh okay xxx. you're writing to the author of the book right? so you write... that...
what um kind of things did you find interesting when you did that? anything that you can think of there that that you might wanna do here? or you wanna try something different? ask him some different questions? I don't know! okay what would you like to ask him about or talk to him about. would you like to tell 'im abou...
it's by... that's true. okay. you wanna ask him about it? any questions? 'cause it doesn't look like regular uh crayons or markers does it? he drew his face in this one? and in this one... mhm. you wanna ask him about how he um did the art work? 'cause it almost looks like... it's painted. somehow that's... yeah it's p...
would you like to ask him about it? and how he did that or... any questions you might have? or maybe when he was a kid? what gave him ideas? do you think when he was a kid he was like you and me and threw everything like that [laughs]. or that he was more like you to eat the junk food? or more like you to eat the fruit...
why don't you do that? he must of had a pet caterpillar! why don't you write the first lines opening it saying that you've enjoyed his book or you've read it ten times and you really like it? or something like that. what ideas? how could you say something in your own words? just to kinda let him know that you're a read...
on Tuesday he ate two pairs. on Wednesday... that's everyday isn't it? yeah he slept inside these. [Chi points to the fruit] well on each day he did that so he was eating every single day right? the fruit. and then on Saturday he ate all this. [referring to the junk food page] right? and then what happened? okay then S...
that they could eat one like breakfast and then nothing and then they wouldn't be hungry for the rest of the day. well we don't hibernate so... just once a day. see they do it for two weeks so that's why he needed all that storage. so that when he came out he didn't eat for two weeks you'd be skinny wouldn't you? so at...
should I start with a capital or a lower case? um can you remember? hm. it's been awhile [laughs]. mhm. had a bad last year in school [laughs]. mhm. try to remember how do you begin all sentences? but this is one sentence. well that's... except it doesn't have a period. so this would be a lower case. no. 'cause it's di...
I know [laughs]. mhm. summer's on. I know how to spell it. I know how to spell except I don't know how to write it. but... okay. write your full first name. oh jeez. [laughs]. draw a line here. [could be a line to cross the t in Chi's name] I w wrote my first name um my whole entire name since I was hm three. [giggles]...
n I'm sorry to tell you... I know. no [laughs] I was gonna say that after your name put a comma. and that would separate it. that's fine though. you're doing it good. hm [sighs]. [context notes say that Chi erases a period to continue the sentence. The final letter has a hyphen between Chi's last name and the next word...
does it sound like a complete sentence? no. lemme read it to you. see how it sounds to you. or if it sounds like it's not finished. hm. Dear Mr Carle. my name is Chi and I am nine and a half years old. yeah [whispers]. y yeah I think that's good. [coughs]. okay. and now you've introduced yourself and he has an idea who...
no. it's not [giggles]. it is about 'im? that would be a good um lemme see. no wait a minute. no. that's where the Library of Congress xxx. it doesn't have it on this book but that's a very good idea. where's the part about 'im? in the future if you wanna write to somebody is read about 'im 'cause that'll be very inter...
hm. how could you say that a little bit um more succinctly? w with fewer words like hm... that's a good question. try to think of a way that we could say it without it being um so many words but the same question? c could try writin' that. and put it on. that's impossible! well think about w what were you getting at? w...
write it down. put it down. why is there only one character. in what? he's got all these books. why is there only one character in The Hungry Caterpillar? okay. do you think you should start like a new paragraph? 'kay how 'bout saying I was wondering or something like that why? instead of just like how come. kind of ab...
[giggles]. defeats the whole point of what I was saying. how do you spell wondering? whaddya think? hm w. I'll help you if you really need it but try it first 'cause you've been a little bit rusty from the summer. w o. n. d. excellent. e r. a n g. mhm! see that! excellent! terrific. I was wondering... hm. why... [cough...
a what? I was wondering and then is if there's more of a pause it's sort of like um y you're not beginning a new sentence but it separates the two? it's like you're saying I was wondering why is there only like that. uh. [Chi is erasing something.] what are you gonna do? I was wondering why there is only one character....
neither is Chi. [laughs]. [laughs]. he's German. it's a German... so it's probably a German uh lo a grammar sound. it's a good point though. I don't know if character originally was a German word or not but we'll hafta learn that another time [laughs]. [laughs]. how do you spell character? okay we have char and then wh...
why xxx one character. okay. instead of two. [Chi says the words slowly as he writes them.] uh instead of two... wait whaddwe... um instead is s um t e a d. instead of two characters. so an a between... i n... e a d. s t a... o u opposite e a d. oh. e a... [Chi begins to erase, and makes a noise of frustration] y yeah ...
my name is Chi and I am nine and a half years old. I was wondering why there is only one character instead of two. except the caterpillar's the same thing. he's the same thing as the butterfly. I know he sees that he'll probably figure out but what does something sound funny like something's missing? if you would just....
Hungry xxx... comma... Caterpillar. %int: quietly instead of two. well... uh yeah I dunno... lemme see. I was wondering why there's only one character instead of two... you put yeah if you wanna leave it you can. you were sposta take xxx. two... what you d do is read the sentence when you're done and then decide if it ...
[laughs]. is that right [laughs]. that is underlined. yeah it is but usually what you i wanna do is separate it 'cause it's the title of something? so it's more important in some ways than the rest of the words in the sentence it makes it stand out as something separate. oh. 'kay. now the only question here is that you...
you know and the question mark it's a little iffy but this way you've separated it's a real clear question. so okay then what else do you wanna write? dear Mister Carle. my name is Chi and I'm nine and a half years old. I was wondering? I was wondering. why is there only one character instead of two in The Very Hungry ...
well is there something you're wondering like how did he make that decision? I don't know. %int: quietly h how can he find the fruits or some and stuff and um without um like planting them on a tree or something like that? the caterpillar? that. yeah. that fell from a tree or something? well do you think that the autho...