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Fingerprint Tales: three little books Nurin made on her own
In her early primary years, Nurin turned three palm-sized notebooks into storybooks drawn with her own fingerprints. Nobody asked her to. Here they are in full.
In her early primary school years, Nurin made these three little books in her free time. Nobody asked her to, and she worked on them unsupervised. She took small, cheap notebooks, about the size of a palm, and turned each one into her own storybook. She wrote out the story, told it to herself, and shared it with others.
She needed nothing more than a pencil and her fingers. She coloured her fingertip with a marker and pressed it onto the page, then drew on arms, legs, faces, horns and tails, so that one fingerprint could become a person, a dinosaur, a tree or a hand. We call the series Fingerprint Tales.
Her spelling is kept exactly as she wrote it.
5 on the Go
The first book asks a question on its first page: what are the things that are 5 or have five? A fingerprint dinosaur with five stripes starts things off, and the book ends by asking the reader what they think 5 could do. On the very last page is a little grid game of her own.
5 ON THE GO
5 on the go! / What are the things that are 5 or have five?
1 have all the fun
2 do what you can do!
3 get to the tree
4 mop the floor
5 HIGH FIVE
5 The BEST Five star hotel / No such thing as 5 tipe or wifi!
5 oh the wonder ful things 5 could do / find 5 star / 5wifi / Highfive!
5 what do you think 5 could do? besides wifi, Highfive and find Dude
Sind diemonts
5 Smiling Dinosaurs
The second book is a whole story. Summer, a little dinosaur, is nervous on her first day at school. She finds her class, makes a first friend called Rose, trains her pet dog Rover for a pet competition, and feels upset when everyone else's pet seems better. Then the scores are read out, and the last page says: "last was me even know I was yongest I won!!"
5 SMILING dinosours
5 smiling Dinosour / Once there was a dinosour name sammer, today Sammer has her first day of School,"what am I going to do I never went school before!"
So summer, with all fear" pack her bag and wear her clothes and say,"bye bye", to her parents.
So when she reached shool she tried to be invisible as she try to find her classroom.
"Finaly," she said softly as her teacher said" you must be the new kid right, and Your name is Summer bloom. Welcome. / Joy Harmony / Vely / Rose / [?] / Hary / Jery
at shool Mr. Swinzerns imform that tommorow there will be a pet compatition I set beside a boy name jery and before that the hold class indruduce themsef. / Jery / ME / Velry / Rose / Hary
At recess I set near a girl name rose she asked all about me She was my first friend, / me
when it was time to go home I and my new frierd rose set toghather At the bus,
At home I train my pet dog for the compatiton I name him rover.
The next day, summer was sapries, all the other kidz had better pets, Super! better pets. Summer felt upset But Rover,"talk dont worry" Summer was supries. / me
Summer asked rose like Shes harmal,"did you train your pet." Rose said;"dont think silly she's been good seens yong"; "are You Sure" "yes, OF CORSE"!
In the compatiton first was Harry, he had a monkey Quite funny but he wasnt that good the monkey, kind of an trained. / 1/5
Second was jery he had a Pealkot looks quit hangry and his very noty he had the dammest point / zzzz / 0/5
3rd was Velry, she had a penguin. kind of cute but dirty as can be.
4th was rose. she had a bird nothing it do / 3/5 / last was me even know I was yongest I won!! / Pow! / 5/5
5 Little Thumbprints
The third book counts down to a birthday. Abbie, a little thumbprint, sees on her calendar that there are five more days to go. She plays with her friends, teaches her dog and has a tea party, and tries to guess what day five will be. That night five thumbprints sleep in a row of beds labelled mother, father, sister, brother and me. At the back are two puzzles for the reader: Spot 5 and Spot 5 differences.
5little THUMPRINS
5 little smilie Thumprins / Once, there was a little thamprint its name was Abbie.
So one day, Abbie woke up and saw what a Supries on her caleder! 5more days till her birthday comes!!!
On the second day she play with her friends, zoey and Joe and Hary they wer very best of friends.
on the third day abbie toght her dog how to do tea stuff. And so, they had a party, a tea party!
And on the forth day Abbie forgot whats on the fiveth day she tried to remembel is it...... / ...Swiming / ...Fishing / dramma dresing...
cleaning..... / Holiday / gardening..... / school.... / sleepovr...
So that night she just slep as fast so she would know what day would it be tommorow. / Mother / father / sister / Brother / me
and the next day what she saw was........
IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY
The END
spot 5
Spot 5 difren[?]
We keep these books as a record of what a child can do when she starts something on her own and sees it through. Two of the three end with a question or a puzzle for the reader, so even then Nurin was making them to share.
We would love to turn Fingerprint Tales into full books, or into an app, one day.
