It is now just over a year since I first started my Momo Blog and I am so happy to say:
this is book number 100!
Sorry Miss Folio is the perfect book for a librarian (although I am really a Teacher-Librarian and there is an important difference). The opening pages have no text and this usually causes some consternation when I read this book each year to our youngest students. How can it be a 'real' book if there is no story?
Then we look more closely and discover there is a 'story' an important story here about visiting the public library, at Christmas, and borrowing a book. The boy reads the book in the car going home, his mum reads it to him, his brother reads it to him, his dad reads it to him and then he puts it under his pillow ready to read again in the morning - this is certainly a very good book.
The real fun comes one month later when the book is due to be returned. Unfortunately something has happened and so it goes on month after month each incident marked by the new due date progressing from January right through to December.
Sorry Miss Folio...
- an elephant sat on your book
- I left it outside in the rain
- an ostrich swallowed it at the zoo
- a burglar stole it
- My brother threw it into a nettle bush
- it went to Aberdeen with Catherine's luggage
- it is in a hole outside the library
- I left it on the bus
"My brother tied your book to a rocket and sent it up in the sky and it came down in the old canal and my dad found it floating the next morning and he waded in and got very smelly and so is the book very smelly and my mum is getting rid of the pong for you..."
Sorry Miss Folio is a simple little picture book with a warm message about imagination and reading and libraries. I treasure reading it, with lots of funny voices, to young students at the start of each school year.
The original edition had a slightly different title - Sorry Miss!
Sorry Miss Folio is a simple little picture book with a warm message about imagination and reading and libraries. I treasure reading it, with lots of funny voices, to young students at the start of each school year.
The original edition had a slightly different title - Sorry Miss!
Take a look here and you can see Miss Folio and her emotions as they change! Will she EVER see that book again?
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