It’s finally done. “Finally” is the wrong word, tho, because I only started it a week ago. But it’s been a very busy week. And at least partly because of the Pig.
This is a kids’ book. I don’t know about the mental age of your kids, but mine find it hilarious. Even more so before they found out I made it. Now they just think I’m scary. Scarier. Anyway…
The Pig and the Box is about a pig who finds a magic box that can replicate anything you put into it. The pig becomes so protective of it, and so suspicious of anyone that wants to use it, that he makes people take their copied items home in special buckets that act as… well, they’re basically DRM. It’s like a fable, except the moral of the story is very modern in tone.
I made the book after hearing how the entertainment industry in Canada is keen on teaching young kids about how to “respect” copyright. That was a bit heavy-handed, I thought, and otherwise despicable. Preying on small kids, brainwashing them so they believe what you’re doing is honourable and good… Feh. So I wrote this book partly as a response to that venture, to counter-act the confused ideals that young’ns are being exposed to these days. Also, I wanted to write potty humour.
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I enjoyed that story especially the last line.
You forgot the most important part in the article. Download the story in pdf here
http://www.dustrunners.com/dl/Pig_and_the_Box.pdf
Cute. Could use some refinement but it looks like its going good so far.
very cute. i loved it. i dont know how well kids would absorb the analogy but if you could figure out a way to emphasize that pig was being paid and the other animals werent getting what they paid for because of the restrictions it would make the lesson a little more complete IMO… then again we are talking about kids here
Very enjoyable story good job