Kids into books - Belly Flop

This week's title: Belly Flop

Author: Morris Gleitzman

Publisher: Macmiffan, $12.95

Illustrator: Nigel Buchanan

Age Group: 8-10 years


You angels probably look after so many kids the details get fuzzy.

It's Mitch spelt M-I-T-C-H, Webber spelt W-E-B-B-E-R.

I'm the one who got my head stuck in the bars of that cattle truck.

At the Gas 'N' Gobble when I was little.

When I asked you for help you made the driver drop his Paddlepop outside the Men's so when he bent down to pick it up he saw my legs dangling under the truck and didn't jump into the cab and roar off and drag me halfway across Australia. I think I was wearing a blue T-shirt.

It probably had burn marks on it from when I did that magic trick with the oven lighter and the fluff from under Gran's bed. The one where I asked you to put me out and you made Gavin Sims chuck his milkshake over me. Do angels have secretaries? If you do, perhaps you could ask yours to jog your memory.

I've thought of trying to get intouch with you heaps of times lately, Doug, but each time I stopped myself on account of me probably being too old now and you probably being up to your neck in angel work.