Kids into books: Just Crazy

Author: Andy Griffiths

Illustrator: Terry Denton

Publisher: Macmillan, $13.95

Age Group: 9-11 years


Everybody else has these really cool accidents where they end up with their arms and legs in plaster and they get all the sympathy and attention and everybody wants to sign their casts - it makes me sick. Why can't I get a proper injury like that? It would be so cool to break every bone in my body and have to go to hospital and just lie around and watch television and eat ice-cream all day long.

But that will never happen to me.

If I broke every bone in my body the doctor would just look at me and say,"He'll be right. Just put a couple of Band-Aids on him.'

And then my mum would look at the doctor with her hands on her hips and say: "Two Band-Aids? Do you think Band-Aids grow on trees? Do you think Band-Aids are handed out free on street corners?"

And the doctor would say: "Actually you're right - one Band-Aid will be adequate."

Anyway that's pretty much the story of my life when it comes to accidents. Nothing too serious. Not even the latest accident which should have been a lot more serious than it actually was.