A little earlier this year I announced that my short story, A Shoebox of Changes, had been sold to The School Magazine.
This week my contributor copies arrived, and I was eager to see the story in print, and who the illustrator was. Alen Timofeyev has produced these beautiful and whimisical characters to support the story.
A Shoebox of Changes is the story of Alannah and her best friend Diya, who find out they won’t be attending the same high school in the new year. The extended metaphor running through the story is the shoebox of silkworms Alannah is taking care of, from their hatching through to their growth, spinning silk coccoons and their metamorphosis into moths, as representative of the changes we go through in life.
There is a scope and sequence HERE.
Lesson Sequence for Figurative Language HERE.
Lesson Sequence for Extended Metaphor HERE.
Illustrated by Alen Timofeyev
A Fullness in Brevity - Adam Byatt 