A Sticky Picture is another story about Toby and Aunt Victoria, who starred in the longer book we had at Post 158 - Aunt Victoria's MonsterThis one was the result of an exercise I developed for use at writing workshops and occasionally use myself. It's called Jigsaw Writing and is featured in Post 207; Everything You Wanted to Know About Writing and More, Much More
In this case, the prompt that came up was A STICKY ... PICTURE, so that's the title and the basis of this story. Toby's Aunt Victoria is an explorer, who finds it increasingly difficult to fund her expeditions, so, on Toby's advice, she decides to enter an art competition... It only takes Toby, a honey and peanut butter sandwich, and some hungry wasps, to get in on the act, and the scene is set! I enjoy Toby and Aunt Victoria, but for some reason these were the only two books I have written about them so far. Still, you never know! It's interesting when characters are illustrated by different artists as you'll see if you click on the Aunt Victoria link above.
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