My Brother Bernadette: Part 3

By JACQUELINE WILSON, Illustrator DAVID ROBERTS

My brother Bernard"s good at making models. He"s got little Plasticine animals trekking up and down our bedroom windowsill and his model aeroplanes zoom above our heads.

Bernard quite fancied the idea of making model cars. He thought they"d be little cars, but these model cars were big ones. Another helper was showing children how to make cars with wheels and planks of wood. These cars were big enough to ride on.

Bernard made his own model car with a bit of help, no problem. He even perched up on it and went for a very short, slow ride.

But there were a lot of big boys making model cars too. Big Dan was the biggest boy of all. Big Dan is famous on our estate. We all try to keep out of his way.

Big Dan made a big car. He drove it like a dodgem but he didn"t dodge. He drove bang into my brother.

Publisher: Mammoth, $12.95 Age group: 7 + years