I am so thrilled with how well Sally Snickers' Knickers is going. Sally is listed on the 2015 Queensland Premier's Reading Challenge list for 2015 and she also shortlisted in the Speech Pathology of Australia Book Awards. Not bad for a little girl with undies on her head :)

What has Sally Snickers done!

Okay, Sally Snickers may have caused a little bit of trouble in a few households...although I prefer to think she's caused a bit of excitement. I've had so many parents contact me to let me know their adorable children have been parading around; answering  front doors; lounging about on beds; or dressing for Book Week parades, with undies perched proudly on their heads. Ha, ha - it cracks me up. I even heard of a three year-old (no names, my darling, but you know who you are) who decided to take the undies off his bottom and pop them on his head instead, because he insisted that's what Sally Snickers does. I am thrilled to bits that kids are relating to Sally Snickers, that they're happy to be different, just as she is, and are free of the inhibitions that restrict many of us adults.

A little poem I wrote tonight to explain all those missing socks :)

Where the Wild Socks Are

Out of the forest and onto the street

In through the gate on his monstery feet,

Past bushes and bins, nasturtiums and gnomes,

He opens back doors of hundreds of homes.

 

He’s never been seen for he’s not very tall,

but no laundry is safe, he’s been to them all.

He watches and waits and watches some more

for the family’s wash to come through the door.

 

He licks his wet lips and he slobbers and sighs                                                

and dreams of his dinner – the ultimate prize.

He climbs in the suds, between smelly old jocks,

then he gobbles up ONE of each pair of socks.

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