Do you think they will ever update the Biff Chip Kipper etc books?

[strandednomore]

Have just been reading one of the Biff and Kipper etc books with dd1 (who is at home with chicken pox) and in it they go to London with Gran, see someone who looks suspiciously like Margaret Thatcher but who my dd decided was the Queen pass by in her car and then have an "incident" with waxwork models including Princess Di. I haven't bothered explaining to dd who Princess Di was (I had enough problems with Nelson) but wondered whether they were ever going to update these books with some more, err, contemporary characters?

Incidentally, for anyone who has finally got the end of this series, do they conclude like the end of the Harry Potter novels? Does Wilma marry Kipper? Do any of them drop out of uni?

(clearly I am bored and spending too much time at home on my own with small children)

this thread has taken quite a serious turn (puts on serious expression and tries to understand terms like fully decodable while studiously ignoring the Victorian Adventure which needs to be read before school by tomorrow morning).

Dd1 has decided Chip is called Chip because s/he eats chips. (I can never remember who is who either).

bring back the village with three corners

i LOVED those books

I love ort! Much better than blinking Billy blue hat. And at least the stories made sense when read in order. Some Of the phonics books read like terrible knock offs of dr Seuss.