Kids into books: Just Crazy

Author: Andy Griffiths

Illustrator: Terry Denton

Publisher: Macmillan, $13.95

Age Group: 9-11 years


I'm never going to get it off.

But I have to.

Because we've got school photos today.

And it's on my face. Right under my left eye.

I can't have my photo taken with a Band-aid on my face.

I'll look like an idiot.

I'll look even stupider than the year I blinked.

And even more stupider than the year the bench I was standing on rocked unexpectedly, and I opened my mouth in surprise.

If I have my picture taken with this Band-Aid on, everybody will look at the photograph when they're older and they won't remember me as the brilliant genius I was - they'll just remember me as the idiot with the Band-Aid on his face.

It's not fair.

I always get Band-Aids.