By Gabriela Resto-Montero
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
UPPER EAST SIDE — Four-year-old Ethan Gordon is still learning how to write his own name — but on Friday he became a published author.
Ethan and his big sister Serena, 6, were among neighborhood kids who turned up at the Scribble Press store, at 1624 First Avenue, to write and illustrate picture books, which were immediately published for Father's Day.
The picture books are a very personal memento of kids’ lives, said mom Batriz Gordon, 32, who brought Serena and Ethan to the store.
"I probably will do something like this every year because you can compare their progress and see them mature," Gordon said.
Open since April, Scribble Press publishes books, cards and other items that have been illustrated and written by kids on the premises.
For the Father's Day books, each child author filled in the prompts to questions like "The best thing we ever did together," and illustrated the pages of the books with markers, stickers and stamps.
After writing their books, the kids turned in the proofs and waited 20 minutes to see their finished tomes.
The seven-page board books retail for $28, while mini-books go for $39 and soft-cover copies sell for $33.
The shop has had a busy week with moms bringing in their kids to make unique gifts for Father's Day, said Paul Louis Lessard who works at the store.
"I made my dad a jumbo card, and I'm 24," Lessard said.
Karin Hannon, 41, of the Upper East Side, teared up when she stopped by the store to pick up the book her 8-year-old daughter had made for her dad.
"He's going to cry," Hannon said of her husband's likely reaction to the gift.
"It's just such a nice keepsake."
