Food Fit for a King

Food Fit for a King is a humorous story about Charlie McBing who receives letters from the king informing him that the king, his ten children, and his twenty cats are coming to visit on Saturday.  Charlie does Internet research to learn what food is fit for kings, kids, and cats – and then the king cancels his visit!  Charlie finds a novel way to ensure the food does not go to waste.  Several repeating language patterns tell the story in dialogue and narrative.

The story is told as a sequence of events.  A variety of sentence types are used.  Quotation marks, exclamation marks, question marks, ellipses, apostrophes, and commas are used. Bold face is used for emphasis.  An artistic font is used to add meaning to words such as quaked and quivered.  Letters and Internet search screens appear in the art.  Humorous illustrations support the text directly and add meaning.

The contraction can’t is used.  Singular/plural pairs include kid/kids and king/kings.  Interest words include shook, shaking, stammered, stuttered, mumbled, muttered, and screeched.

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