Tonight my middle school drama troupe read Suzan Zeder's Wiley and the Hairy Man. What I love about this history of this play is that it was one of the first major TYA plays to feature a child protagonist. After all, we're used to a story tradition of things happening to children, but we have little in our heritage to show us children making and enacting strong decisions. I mean, did Cinderella actually DO anything? So, I decided to do a sketch of the Hairy Man himself. He's a backwoods conjurer, with yellow teeth, huge feet with fourteen toes, a bone through his nose, and an overall mean disposition.
This sketch is why I love you! So full of character and action!
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