It’s a funny thing, starting a new blog. When we switched from The Barnstorming to Idiots’Books, all we changed was the name, the look, and the URL. We effectively closed down one blog to start another one with the same content. Lest you worry about our intentions this time around, Idiots’Blog will keep going strong (as will Idiots’Books) and the Bobbledy Blog will carve its own, parallel path.
As time passes, we’ll get a better sense of what sorts of stories belong in which place. Our sense is that Idiots’Blog will stay pretty much the same, a place to talk about work, life, family, travel, etc. For the most part, Bobbledy Blog will touch on the same kinds of stories, but with content more skewed toward (and appropriate for) youngish kids and their parents.
One of our hopes for Bobbledy Blog is that it eventually creates its own community of kids and parents interacting around a shared interest in books, music, and creativity in general.
To this end, we’re going to have regular prompts: whether it’s to draw something or write something or make something. We hope that kids will respond and then send us a picture (or a scan) of whatever it is they create for posting on the blog. The first such prompt is up this morning. If you are a kid or have a kid who might be interested, head on over there to check it out.
Robbi, Alden, and I each tried our hand at doing the first drawing.
Here’s Robbi’s:
I love it. Mine is awful. But I kind of love it, too.
