The Girl Who Blew Up Her Brother and Other Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls Read Online Free PDF Page B

gone again! Suddenly, I saw him, hiding behind a shelf. I could see his dirty little knees through a gap in the books.
    I sneaked up from behind, slowly, quietly, and grabbed him by the collar. ‘What do you think you’re doing?’ I hissed. ‘I should knock your stupid block off. Lucky you’re not my brother or I would!’
    â€˜But I want you to be my brother,’ said Oscar.
    â€˜What?’ I replied, not having the slightest idea what he was talking about.
    But Oscar didn’t say anything else. Instead, he started crying and hugged into my leg.
    It was Mrs Waite who explained it to me later. ‘Poor Oscar lost his brother last year. Knocked over by a car. Oscar has been looking for a new brother ever since. He misses him so badly that somehow he thinks that if he could invent a new brother, the pain will go away.’
    Well, Oscar isn’t my new brother, but I’ve started to play with him at school as if he is. Each morning, when I see his little face light up, it makes me feel like I’ve never felt before. Sort of needed. And I like it.
    Is it OK to love a kid like he is your brother, even when he’s just a smelly kindy kid? I think it is.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    When successful actor and screenwriter Christopher Milne became a father, he found himself reading books at bedtime to his two boys, Peter and Robert. He soon ran out of stories to read, so he started making up his own.
    He quickly discovered that if he told Pete and Rob about good boys and girls doing very good things all the time, they were bored stupid.
    But if he told them about naughty kids doing pooey, rotten, disgusting things, his sons would scream for more. ‘We want more of those naughty stories!’
    â€˜OK,’ Chris would reply. ‘But only if you’ve been good.’ And so the Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls were born...
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