Someone discuss those ORT books with me...

[ahundredtimes]

Discuss:

1. Why are there so many glasses left abandoned on the ground? Who loses this many pairs of specs?
2. Who is the janitor from the school in the baseball cap? Why is he always lurking? Why does he appear in different costumes on different adventures? What does he know that we don't know?
3. What is it with that man looking over Biff and Chip's fence? Can his dog really jump that high?

There's something going on in these books. Can anyone help?

There's one about the seaside with a dog having a poo in the background. Which is accurate if nothing else.

lolat optician

they go to bournemough on holiday too
you naCELARLY see the BIC in one beach shot
you kwn the one where dad gets buried alive
and if i read " oh no" once more....

lol at mrs may
sheis primary teacher sterotype non?
iliek the mad granny

we alos like " what a soggy doggy" 9 kipper nad the rope siwng stage 3 i think)

makes me larf
oyu haevnt really dont htose books have oyu hula?

apprently you can get the illustator to come yto your shcool ( for a fee) and he does a funny talk snd sells off sketches he dos on the day

we alos like " what a soggy doggy" 9 kipper nad the rope siwng stage 3 i think)

makes me larf
oyu haevnt really dont htose books have oyu hula?

apprently you can get the illustator to come yto your shcool ( for a fee) and he does a funny talk snd sells off sketches he dos on the day

Dogsby, The Rope Swing is one of my favourites!

I really like ORT books, I imagine the author and illustrator have excellent senses of humour. Gran is fabulous.

I also spotted Jeremy Beadle in one of them too. Ds actually brought a ORT book home about the illustrater Alex Brytcha (sp?)

We have just finished Stage three, so yes we know the rope swing one. LOL! Reading stage 3 Sparrows now - just had the last one about Jan getting her finger stuck in the chocolate mahcine.

DD likes the Stage 3 one about the killer whales and dolphin as it reminded her of Florida.

lol at beadle and dagenham

You can get him to come to your school? I think we'd die with excitement. I'm going to suggest it.
The Rope Swing is best, we liked that rabbit having a kind of nervous breakdown by the side of the stream.

Will he wear the janitor hat? He'd have to.

He fled the Czech republic as a child you know (I read it in DSs book)

oh god dont tlel me !" flopty and the janitor flee communism is level 16?

look very old thread( smug oldie alert) about him doign a visit

We have 3 large (big flip-chart size)pictures by Roderick Hunt at school from when he visited.

Another good artist to visit schools is Nicholas Allen (The Queen's knickers) - he gats the kids to decorate a pair of paper knickers for the Queen - they love it.

John Ryan (Pugwash) was also brilliant, but I'm not sure he visits schools any more - he's well over 80.

Meant Alex Brychta of course.....

Lol @ janitor fleeing persecution level 16.

You are most useful smug oldie - have read thread. Gosh, it's gripped people for years this hasn't it? Most excited to discover there is such a thing as an ORT website (and that someone actually described themselves as a 'ritual visitor' to it. Goodness. Mind boggles.)

oh yes
i liberated ds1 ofmr organised reading at shcool ( year 4) i told hi teacher hed rather read real books
ponce
teacher said somehting the other day
told him ds hasnt had a reading book since october and no one had noticed so ti wasnt really aproblem

and re. flight over czech hills floppy used to carry a small barrel of alcohol i htink and barked in czech)

lok how erudite the old posters were and look at alibubbles empahsis that her kid LIKED a state school

How did you get him then Rusty? What's the deal? How do I do it?

Erudite, yes but also rather earnest weren't they? However did you cope? I lol @ reminded him of happy times (state). I think it was the brackets wot did it.

I'm afraid it was before I worked there, ahundredtimes, but I can ask the literacy co-ordinator - I'd guess the school got publicity material. You could try the phone number on this site

Thanks Rusty, I'll try it.
How exciting. Am going to take snaps of me and him, laughing and throwing that hat to the ground, and post on here.