Creatures of Foo: Rovens

"...Leven had never seen a roven before, much less a roven of such massive size. The menacing creature was more than twice Leven's height, and its huge, copper wings grew directly from its shoulders and along its gigantic arms... Its entire body was covered with bright orange hair, and a pair of small, hooded, yellow eyes glared out from its fierce-looking face. The hair covering its body was so bright, it was hard to look at it directly...The roven's chest was thick and wide like an ape's, but in every other point the creature resembled a mutated raven."

Above is an image from the 2nd book.
Leven is standing in front of a roven who is void of hair.

- Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret

Rovens are best described as big, ugly, and... uh... Well that about sums it up. Leven first encounters them at the beginning of book 2, while staying in his grandmother Amelia's house. The flock of monsters tear through the roof and wreck the house before digging a huge rip in the ground and then attempting to drown the victims in its own hair. It was messy business. Rovens are loyal to Jamoon and others bent on unraveling Foo. A wise person would try to avoid them.

Two Lovely Poems About Books

While browsing my family's bookshelves I found two very different books of poems lined up by each other. Curiously I pulled them out and flitted through their pages. While reading I discovered a poem from each that I decidedly liked. I will share them with you now:

The 1st is from a book presented by Barbara Ross called A Treasury of Goops.

Books

I have a notion

the books on the shelves

Are just as much persons

As we are, ourselves.

When you are older, you'll find this is true,

You'd better be careful

To make books like you!

The 2nd is from The Bookworm's Feast, A Potluck of Poems by J. Patrik Lewis.

Read...Think...Dream

Book me a passage

to history

Back to some once-

on-a-time,

Sail me into a

tall told tale,

Read me a river-

boat rhyme.

Ride me the waves

of a story,

Settle me down

by a brook,

Dream me a land 

only dreamed of,

Book me a voyage

by book.

The rest of the poems in these books are amazing. I encourage you to find them and read the rest!

Drama Games #6 Story Time

This game is best played with 4-5 people. One person sits and the others stand. Each standing person is given a quirk, accent, stereotype, or character. They must act this thing until the end of the game. The three actors stand in a line. The other person sits in front of them. The sitting person points at one person and they start an improvisational story, while upholding their quirk. The sitting person points to another standing person and that person immediately picks up the story. The story can be completely outrageous. It is also optional for the audience to pick the title and characters of the story. The story continues until you decide that it's gone too far. An example of this game might look like this:

Person 1 (Dopey Cheerleader): So, like, once upon a time there was like a hansome guy and he was like in love with this one girl with like the CUTEST eyes and she was like-
Person 2 (French): Ze most amazing chef that Europe had everrrrrrr seen! And she wooed ze man with her-
Person 1: Totes awesome cakes and stuff. Like, yeah, and he totes like fell deeper in love with her and stuff. But she couldn't like love him back because she found out that he was like-
Person 3 (Harry Potter): The evil dark lord of the wizarding world!
Person 4 (Afraid of Germs): And he went around tormenting the world with his awful germs! And people screamed and ran. It was horrible! The whole population got Chikungunya Fever!
Person 2: But, ze girrrl was able to currre them all with a concotion that she cooked up in her verrry own keetchen. Ze people loved her! They gave her-
Person 3: A snowy owl. And-
Person 1: And lots of attention. Like "Give me a G!"
Person 4: It was disgusting.