IMPORTANT UPDATE

This is gonna be really long, but bare with me...

I just did a shit ton of work, so now is your turn to jump in...

I just uploaded a file onto the Drive called Ebook_Library that has the rigs for the husband, super organized. There are alternate faces, hands and arms. If you right click on the head, you can say "swap symbol" and then choose the head you want (you can press ctrl+drag to adjust). Same goes for arms and hands and what not. Look through the options, cause I created specific hands for churning, an arm that's holding the churn, etc.
-load the layout instructed below, as a background, so you understand the staging.
-animate the character right onto the armature layer (keep it brief)
-You can do multiple animations in one file, just duplicate the rig onto a new layer.
-Save as an FLA and upload to the drive.

The exact shots needed are listed below.
SPARKS- I suggest you do 11 and 12. You're the strongest draftsman, so I think you'd have the easiest time with that, and you won't have to use flash. 

If you plan to take on any of these shots, please post on here before you start, to make sure people aren't working on the same ones. These are extremely easy animations, so please do as many as you can as fast as you can, cause I'm assuming I'm putting the book together myself again, and I need time to assemble everything. Tonight would be preferable!

THE HUSBAND WHO WAS TO MIND THE HOUSE

Front Cover : No animation

1.   ONCE on a time there was a man, so surly and cross, he never thought his Wife did anything right in the house. So, one evening, in haymaking time, he came home, scolding and swearing, and showing his teeth and making a dust.

Layout 1: Simple arm motions for husband, wife sweeps.

2.   "Dear love, don't be so angry; there's a good man," said his goody; "to-morrow let's change our work. I'll go out with the mowers and mow, and you shall mind the house at home." Yes! the Husband thought that would do very well. He was quite willing, he said.

Layout 2: Wife pats his arm. Husband’s expression changes from serious to cocky & tilts head back.  

3.   So, early next morning, his goody took a scythe over her neck, and went out into the hayfield with the mowers, and began to mow; but the man was to mind the house, and do the work at home. First of all, he wanted to churn the butter;

Layout 3: Man sitting on stool, churning. Face turns from cocky to worried as he churns.

4.    but when he had churned a while, he got thirsty, and went down to the cellar to tap a barrel of ale, So, just when he had knocked in the bung, and was putting the tap into the cask, he heard overhead the pig come into the kitchen.

Layout 4: Do same as Anthony’s animation last week.

5.   Then off he ran up the cellar steps, with the tap in his hand, as fast as he could, to look after the pig, lest it should upset the churn;

Layout 5: Husband runs up steps.

6.   but when he got up, and saw the pig had already knocked the churn over, and stood there, routing and grunting amongst the cream which was running all over the floor, he got so wild with rage that he quite forgot the ale-barrel, and ran at the pig as hard as he could.

Layout 3: No animation for man. Man standing furious over pig that is licking puddle of butter.

7.   He caught it, too, just as it ran out of doors, and gave it such a kick, that piggy lay for dead on the spot.

Layout 6: Man’s leg kicks pig. (Keep the trajectory below the horizon line)

8.   Then all at once he remembered he had the tap in his hand; but when he got down to the cellar, every drop of ale had run out of the cask.

Layout 4: Man standing with scared face, hands on head or face, watching last drops fall from the keg, with a puddle on the ground.

9.   Then he went into the dairy and found enough cream left to fill the churn again, and so he began to chum, for butter they must have at dinner.

Layout 3: Man tries to churn butter while standing, w/worried face. Puddle on the ground still.

10.              When he had churned a bit, he remembered that their milking cow was still shut up in the byre, and hadn't had a bit to eat or a drop to drink all the morning, though the sun was high.

Layout 7: No animation needed

11.              Then all at once he thought 'twas too far to take her down to the meadow, so he'd just get her up on the house top--for the house, you must know, was thatched with sods, and a fine crop of grass was growing there.

Layout 7: (reference Layout_7 PSD file, for example) Maybe just a down shot of the house, with grass on the roof? I don’t know…

12.              Now the house lay close up against a steep down, and he thought if he laid a plank across to the thatch at the back he'd easily get the cow up.

Layout 7: Needs hand done, simple animation (reference Layout_7 PSD file, for example). A few frames showing the man walking the cow across the planks onto the roof, or something funnier, if you can think of something.

13.              But still he couldn't leave the churn, for there was his little babe crawling about on the floor, and "if I leave it," he thought, "the child is safe to upset it."

Layout 3: no animation needed. NEEDS RENDERING OF BABY.   

14.              So he took the churn on his back, and went out with it; but then he thought he'd better first water the cow before he turned her out on the thatch;

Working on layout…

15.              so he took up a bucket to draw water out of the well; but, as he stooped down at the well's brink all the cream ran out of the churn over his shoulders, and so down into the well. (PROBLEMS WITH RIGGING ON THIS LAYOUT??? someone with more flash exp needs to take this on)

Layout 8: Man reaches toward well, pours butter out, faces changes from neutral to scared. *Notice the arm holding the churn, in the library.

16.              Now it was near dinner-time, and he hadn't even got the butter yet; so he thought he'd best boil the porridge, and filled the pot with water and hung it over the fire. When he had done that, he thought the cow might perhaps fall off the thatch and break her legs or her neck.

Layout 9: No animation needed.

17.              So he got up on the house to tie her up. One end of the rope he made fast to the cow's neck and the other he slipped down the chimney and tied round his own thigh; and he had to make haste, for the water now began to boil in the pot, and he had still to grind the oatmeal.

Working on layout… (probably no animation)

18.              So he began to grind away; but while he was hard at it, down fell the cow off the house-top after all, and as she fell, she dragged the man up the chimney by the rope.

Working on layout…

19.              There he stuck fast; and as for the cow, she hung halfway down the wall, swinging between heaven and earth for she could neither get down nor up.

Working on layout…

20.              And now the goody had waited seven lengths and seven breadths for her Husband to come and call them home to dinner; but never a call they had. At last she thought she'd waited long enough, and went home.

Working on layout…

21.              But when she got there and saw the cow hanging in such an ugly place, she ran up and cut the rope in two with her scythe.

Working on layout…

22.              But, as she did this, down came her Husband out of the chimney ; and so, when his old dame came inside the kitchen, there she found him standing on his head in the porridge pot._­

Layout 9: man flailing with head in pot. Wife laughs.