Silly Jenny was born in a time when the world seemed so dark and confusing.
She was a way for me to escape the stress and dream of a life after a pandemic, or at least a way through it. Her purpose was to spread joy and cheer when it felt like there wasn’t much to smile about. At least, that’s what she did for me and what she continues to do for me as I share her with my friends and family, my community and the world.
When everything shut down, I was looking for busy work and decided to pull out some old stories and finally typed them up to save on my computer. That was when I found the original story of Jenny and had the idea of how I could turn my very short story into an actual children's book.
I originally wrote Jenny's story back in 2018 when I was a program leader in an after school program. I was leading a writing prompt lesson with the children. We used a "Roll a Story" writing prompt method. It involves rolling dice and matching the number with the correlating number column for characters, settings, and plots. My prompt was "A dragon in a jelly bean factory fights aliens." And thus, Silly Jenny was born!
