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Blinky Bill

My kind of priest

‘Well, now,’ he said, ‘what do they call you?’

‘Jackie, father,’ I said.

‘And what’s a-trouble to you, Jackie?’

‘Father,’ I said, feeling I might as well get it over while I had him in good humour, ‘I had it all arranged to kill my grandmother.’

Once upon a time…..

 

Are you sitting comfortably, children, ready for a story?  Not if you’re a Yoruba child (thirty million speakers, Benin and Nigeria and elsewhere) . You’re waiting for:

Here is a story! Story it is.

Sunday Slice: Gert for kids *

Everyone wants to go to Miss Smellie’s school. Nobody wants to go to Mrs Yeller’s school, which is just around the corner.