Anyway, I cranked out this little story about a year ago. It's meant to be text for a pseudo-children's picture book. By pseudo I mean one that both children and adults enjoy. It's called Doris's Day, and it starts out something like this:

God created the earth and planted a beautiful garden. He filled it with all sorts of living things—little creepy things, big lumbering things, things that grew out of the earth, and things that swam in the water. He called the garden Eden and dropped a man right into the middle of it. God called the man Adam.

Poor Adam was all alone in Eden with nothing to do. So, as God suggested, he named the creatures that roamed the garden with him.

God came back and told Adam to take a nap. He slept for a long time. When Adam finally woke up he found another animal in the garden with him. An animal that looked like him. Sort of.

“Adam,” God said. “This is your wife.”

“My wife?” asked Adam. “What's a wife?"

"A friend," God said. "A companion. She will be with you always."

Adam shrugged. "Well, OK. But what is her name?”

“That,” replied God, “is for you to decide.

“I will call her Doris,” declared Adam proudly.

Hope your kids enjoy it. My older ones did, I'm not sure my five-year-old understood it all that well.