I hope you’ll be willing to indulge me for a little family brag here. 😉
Remember those cute Mormon kids drawings I once posted? Well, over on Mormon Matters my brother has just posted a whole Book of Mormon map that we drew when we were little kids:
My little Nico is now six years old — the same age John was when he drew all these drawings. And the funny thing is that — just like his uncle — he produces reams and reams of detailed drawings. The subject matter this generation is a little different, though. Here’s one of the random pages I found lying around the house today:
I didn’t coach him on this by the way — he just watches a lot of nature documentaries. The above is a primate family tree with French captions: gorille (gorilla), chimpansé (chimpanzee), lemure (lemur), homme (man), singe (monkey), orang-outang (orangutan), capusin (capuchin). It looks like there’s a chameleon in the top right corner, not sure what that’s about. See also his diagrams comparing bat wings to pteranodon wings. 😉
How does the parent generation measure up? Well, I’ve been doing a good job of saving these and gathering them up the way my mom did, but I’ve bee far less consistent about marking the dates on them. I’ll set a goal to do better…
O.K. Stone me….
Does the leadership of tscc show up on these drawings?
Nico’s drawings are wonderful! He did that from watching a documentary and not from a printed chart of primates?
I love that they are all in profile except Homme. This reminds me of watching a show called “Animals, Animals, Animals” on Saturday morning in 1979.
The theme song included the line, “…man is just an animal who has managed to survive…” and I remember singing that to mom. And she reminded me that “we don’t believe that.” I remember being dubious. I did believe that; it made perfect sense.
For this chart, I think Nico was mostly influenced by the primate episode of the French kids’ science show C’est Pas Sorcier (It’s Not Magic). They show a primate family tree, and Nico has drawn other diagrams where he followed the family tree from the show more closely.
That picture is FAB!! And so is your earlier work about the BoM! Love it. 🙂
Some day – someone should post the photos of the entire lego replica of Nauvoo (built to scale).
These are great, btw – both John’s and Nico’s.
Thanks CWC and aerin!!!
Yeah, that lego Nauvoo was cool!!! Did you see it in real life or just the photos?
I thought I saw it being built – it wasn’t complete. Can’t remember if I saw the photos or not.
Forgive me for being a drive by commenter… I can only hope that the children who i may have recently taken the responsibility of caring for in the future will have such a fondness for science.
Perhaps, if someone has the time, they could explain the whole mormon/french connection? Has mormonism spread to france? or is this in canada? (but Nico doesn’t seem a very canadian name!)
Genewitch — Here’s the connection: I’m an American who was born and raised Mormon (and later stopped believing). As an adult, I married a French guy and moved to France. Nico was born in France, so he has dual citizenship and speaks both French and English. 😀