I promised myself when I began primary school visits that I wouldn’t start doing ‘kids say the darndest things’ pieces, but I can resist posting this photo from Newtown Public. It’s part of a display on China. It reminds me of the type of stuff I used to do at school, coming, a cropper on the final hurdle.
The school was great. I read out the first page of the next book and we discussed what things we should change, including the name of the bully. They quickly spotted that the name I had in there, ‘Harry’ didn’t sound like a bully and besides it was already taken by Mr Potter. They came up with Barry, Bruce, Boris and the splendid Igor. They thought I should change the name of the hero from Jonty Townsend to Jonah Townsend because there was a boy of that name in the school. I actually really like that because I wanted him to be an Islander or Maori.
I got some fun title suggestions like:
- The Perfect Principal
- Perfect Tomatoes
- Perfect Behaviour
- The Tomato Principal
- Attention in Class
I quite like the last two. Do we have a winner there?
1 comment:
I like Jonah a lot too
(For previous name, shurely it should have been Jontii or Jonteh (if from Manchester, England ;-)
As for titles, without knowing about the role tomatoes play in the book, I too like The Tomato Principal.
It sounds intriguing.
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