Using the influence of Rudyard Kipling's Poem "If", award-winning author Mij Kelly explores the challenges of living in a world filled with monstrous people, and how important it is to keep smiling regardless of the chaos around you.
Purple/Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary.
Text type: A poem
Pages 22 and 23 explore how the boy's world looks when it is filled with monsters, and how it really looks, allowing children to discuss and compare the scenes.
Curriculum links: Literacy: Silly stuff
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