Yesterday Frodo read all of the words in his first reading book - an Oxford Reading Tree Stage 1 First Words Story Book with the somewhat dubious sounding title of "Six in a Bed".
Spoiler Warning! Don't read on if you don't want to know the plot of the whole book! ;-)
Mum and Dad.
Mum, Dad and Chip.
Mum, Dad, Chip, and Biff
Mum, Dad, Chip, Biff, Kipper
and Floppy.
(note the sneaky trick of moving the last "and" to the last beach to catch out any kid who's spotted a pattern).
Fantastic! Today he's got a follow up book titled "Fun at the Beach".
Is it just my perverse mind, or is somebody having a Captain Pugwash Urban Myth style laugh with the titles? The others in the series are:
"The Pancake"
"A Good Trick"
"Floppy Floppy"
2 comments:
'...moving the last "and" to the last beach'
EH?
Reading the title of the book it sounds like it's about cheating at Darts & since when was the lead singer of 'Saxon' a first word a small child should learn?
Oops! The lad has no chance of learning anything when his parents are illiterate :-)
That should have read '...moving the last "and" to the last page'
To add to the confusion, in this book "Biff" is a girls name!
We suspect that for some reason the publishers/educators who devised the book have chosen names for the characters that are unlikely to be the names of the children who are reading the books.
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