|
|
This lass asked me to write in her autograph book the other day. "You can write, can't you?" She says, and I says "Write? 'Course I can write! I've just written a whole book."
"Pull the other leg, it's got bells on," she says.
But I have written a book. It's all about the street we live on - me and our Mam and Dad, and our Pete and Tone, and Lucy, Rose and Joe. They're my brothers and sisters, worst luck.
Our Mam always says, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all," so she wasn't very happy when she saw what I'd written in the lass's book:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar makes me sick
And so do you.
"Would it help if I said I was crying when I wrote it, Mam?" I asked, and she said, "Not a lot." So then I got sent to bed again.
Rotten kids.
The hilarious adventures of a girl, the youngest of six, growing up in a mining town just after the war. Our heroine, high-spirited, impulsive, stubborn is never out of trouble but always manages to stay loveable
|
Reviews:
Shortlisted: THE OTHER AWARD - 1978
Shortlisted: CARNEGIE MEDAL - 1978
With its breathless first-person narrative and uproarious honesty, it is compulsive reading for nines and above - Junior Education
Bursting with life, cheerfulness and humour. minute observation. Children will enjoy the escapades of this female 'Just William' -Junior Bookshelf
|
