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# **Under Development**

## Are Not!

by Stacy Goodman

*(approx. 500 words)*

Genre: Children's

Development Status: Active, Sept. 2025

 

\[Spread 1\]

*Mom picks the kids up from school.*  
*Brother and sister climb into the back, already bickering.*  
*Baby is buckled into his car seat, his window rolled all the way down.*  
Brother: “Did not!”  
Sister: “Did too!”  
Mom: “That’s enough, you two.”

\[Spread 2\]

Brother: “Am not!”  
Sister: “Am too!”  
Mom: (focused on the road).  
*(Outside, unseen by the siblings, a firetruck waits at the light.)*

\[Spread 3\]

Brother: “Don’t cross this line!”  
*(He swipes his finger through the air, drawing an invisible wall.)*  
Sister: (leans across it with a grin) “Did too!”

(Illustrator note: show a bold cartoon-style dashed line dividing the backseat. Brother  
fuming on one side, Sister leaning way over it with a mischievous grin. Baby sits in the  
middle, oblivious, looking out his open window.)

(A *fireman leans in, smiling at the baby, placing his hat on the baby’s* head *and handing*  
*him a tiny kitten. The car moves on.)*

\[Spread 4\]

Brother: “You started it!”  
Sister: “Did not!”  
*(Traffic stop: circus parade outside. A clown hands the baby a balloon through the*  
*window. The car moves again.)*

\[Spread 5\]

Brother: “You’re a liar!”  
Sister: “Am not!”  
*(Next to them, an ice cream truck. The ice cream man hands the baby a cone. The car*  
*moves on.)*

\[Spread 6\]

Sister: “You’re mean!”  
Brother: “Am not!”  
Sister: “Are too!”  
*(Car pulls into driveway. Baby now holds all his treasures: balloon, kitten, ice cream*  
*cone, still wearing fireman hat.)*

\[Spread 7\]

Brother and Sister (together): “…Hey! Where did you get THAT?!”  
Mom: (turning, eyes widening) “What in the world…?”  
Baby: (big grin).

\[Final Page\]

Mom: “We’re home!”

Sometimes if you’re too busy saying “Are not!” you’ll miss the “Are too!” that makes life  
sweet.

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