Wee Gallery was conceived by Surya
and Dave, graphic designer and teacher.
When our son was born we read everything. We read
about how to interpret babies' cries and change
their diapers. We discovered that babies develop
in so many ways during the first 5 years that it
dwarfs everything they learn over the entire rest
of their lives. That seemed pretty incredible considering
how much we learned as parents during his first
six weeks of life. We learned that newborns can
only see 12 to 15 inches away and they are most
taken with their parent's faces and black and white
geometric figures. Experimenting with the latter
idea, Wee Gallery was born.
So why couldn't we just get away with drawing black
lines with a marker on a piece of paper? But as
Sid got older the lines became very boring. The
animals, on the other hand, continued to entertain.
As his motor-skills developed he would grab the
cards and look at them. When we told him stories
for each animal he would listen and look, turn the
card and turn it again. As he approached one he
would carry them around and give them to us, asking
for a story. He could even point out each animal
as we named them. Now as he approaches two, he still
loves them. He is a bit shy of the cat, as he is
of real cats, but he always waves and says "Hi"
to Emmy (the elephant).
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