ANYTHING can happen at WIGGLESBOTTOM PRIMARY and it ALWAYS does. Can Ravioli the Hamster do magic? YES! Is Theo Burke really a robot? YES! Will swallowing that fly change Evie MacIntosh? YES! So what are Class 2R going to do about it all?
HAVE A LOT OF FUN! Three perfectly pitched school stories hilariously told by Pamela Butchart and beautifully illustrated by Becka Moor. Prepare to laugh your stinky shoes off!
£5.99 www.nosycrow.com COVER ARTWORK © BECKA MOOR 2016
FROM THE WINNER OF THE BLUE PETER BEST STORY AWARD
THERE’S LOADS MORE MAYHEM IN
WELCOME TO
HANA
MISS RILEY
JAYDEN IRFAN
LAUREN
EVIE
MILES MEGAN
SUSIE
MR HARRIS
ROZ SUNITA GAVIN
ANNE-MARIE JOEL
BOBBY
THEO
First published in 2015 by Nosy Crow Ltd The Crow’s Nest, 10a Lant Street London SE1 1QR www.nosycrow.com ISBN: 978 0 85763 530 3 Nosy Crow and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Nosy Crow Ltd Text copyright © Pamela Butchart 2016 Cover and inside illustrations © Becka Moor, 2016 The right of Pamela Butchart and Becka Moor to be identified as the author and illustrator respectively has been asserted. All rights reserved This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, hired out or circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of Nosy Crow Ltd. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Printed in Turkey by Imago. Papers used by Nosy Crow are made from wood grown in sustainable forests. 135798642
CONTENTS
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FOR COLE AND ORLA P. B. TO PAMELA B. M.
2
Everyone went
WILD
when Miss Riley
introduced us to the new class pet because we’d NEVER had a class pet before and also because it was a
HAMSTER
.
3
EVERYONE wanted to choose the hamster’s name and Anne-Marie Moor wouldn’t stop shouting
“PRINCESS HAIRY FACE! PRINCESS HAIRY FACE!” over and over.
4
Miss Riley told us that everyone was allowed to put
ONE name in the “Hamster
Name Suggestion Box�.
5
Everyone crossed their fingers and legs for luck when Miss Riley reached into the box and pulled out a name.
6
But when she read the name she looked a bit cross. And then she said, “Anne-Marie, how many suggestions did you put into the suggestion box?” But Anne-Marie wouldn’t answer, and we knew it was because she’d probably put loads in.
7
So Miss Riley pulled out another name and it was
“RAVIOLI”.
Miss Riley sighed and everyone cheered because we
8
LOVED the name!
We learned all about hamsters and how to take care of them
RESPONSIBLY.
Miss Riley took Ravioli out of his cage and showed us how to pick him up and hold him without squeezing his little hamster bones. 9
Miss Riley said that every day a different person would be in charge of looking after Ravioli and that’s when
EVERYONE
started screaming, “Me! Miss!
PLEASE! PICK ME! ME! ”
But Miss Riley picked Megan McNally, and when Sunita Ram asked why, Miss Riley said that it was because Megan hadn’t shouted like everyone else had and that part of taking care of Ravioli meant not frightening him.
10
11
All day, every time Ravioli squeaked, Megan jumped up
RIGHT AWAY
and
gave him a sunflower seed. She even did it when she was in the middle of an argument with Sunita Ram about who broke the “NonShatter” ruler! Then after lunch Megan started being
WEIRDLY NICE
to everyone. She let
David Barry AND Bobby Henderson use her colouring pens even though she usually doesn’t let ANYONE touch them, not even Miss Riley. The next day, Theo Burke was in charge of Ravioli and he kept jumping up and giving Ravioli a sunflower seed every time he squeaked, just like Megan had. And then
HE started being WEIRDLY NICE to everyone too! He even washed Sunita’s paint pots even though she didn’t ask him to.
12
That’s when I noticed that Ravioli was
giving people THE
EYE. He would run up
to the side of his cage when someone came near and then
FREEZE ON THE SPOT and
STARE
at
them with wide eyes for
AGES.
Susie Keys must have noticed it too because she threw a scrunched-up piece of paper on to our desk which said:
DON’T LOOK INTO RAVIOLI’S EYES!