Coconut Comes to School
Sadly, Coconut Comes to School is now out of print.
'This is a funny and touching tale, beautifully illustrated by Ivan Bates.
Waterstones Book Quarterly
Her eyes are brown like chestnuts.
Her hair is dark like the bark of trees,
And rough as a brush to touch.
Her lips go slip-slop-slap!
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I first thought of this story many years ago, when a teacher told me about a donkey who used to visit their school. What if somebody in the school didn’t want the donkey to come, I thought, like the headmaster? I wondered how he might try to chase her away, and how things might go wrong, and then how they might go right again.
Writing tip
Perhaps you could write a story about an animal coming to your school. A bat in the classroom? A panther in the playground? A cat in the cloakroom? What does it look like? What could go wrong, and how could you make it go right again?
