“Feast your eyes on this” my 7-year-old told me and revealed his latest masterpiece: a Lego playset based on Edgar Allen Poe’s THE RAVEN.
My kid first got into Poe via YouTube’s Epic Rap Battles of History (there’s a video where Stephen King faces off with Poe.)
After his interest in the macabre author, my wife read him the famous poem (and showed him the drawings in Gahan Wilson’s Classics Illustrated adaptation from the ’90s.)
He soon realized it was the same poem the Simpsons dramatized in the very first Treehouse of Horror. And he’s been watching it over and over, wishing there was a Lego playset. So he build his own.
Since then he’s devised a plan for the annual storybook parade. (Public Schools in Brooklyn have replaced the Halloween parade with a more literary “storybook character parade” where students dress up as literary figures and bring in the book. Naturally most kids will dress up as Iron Man or Spider-Man and bring in a paperback novelization. Not even a comic book, but a chapter-book tie-in!) But my kid has already decided he’s going as THE RAVEN.
“And all day, whenever a teacher asks me anything I’ll just say `Nevermore!'”
Come back on November 1st to get the update.
*** Somewhat related ***
This is the same 7-year-old who pitched a sequel to THE SHINING
For more famous macabre animals, come see KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT ANIMAL ATTACKS at the Nitehawk Movie Theater this month.
Trailer: KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT ANIMAL ATTACKS from Nitehawk Cinema on Vimeo.