Biff and Chip are twins

[misshardbroom]

Who knew?

Oh god am dreading the lower biff and kippers, luckily dd jumped in at around level 6 I think, can't remember, they were bad enough. Have a feeling I will be getting well acquainted with the stage 1 ones with ds nooooooooo. Will look out for the glasses may give me the will to live.

piprabbit, it could be an opportune moment to distract your DD by explaining the difference between primary and secondary historical sources!

(we had this when DS1, who is animal obsessed, discovered an old DVD of Steve Irwin: Crocodile Hunter).

Ds1 moved school at the end of yr 1 after 2 years of ort, and they didn't use these books for yr 2 at his new school. So, can I ask for a spoiler to find out what happens at the end?? (sad cow emoticon)

Bobblehat - I don't thing there is really an end as such (incase they wanted to write more?!) but the adventures get more dangerous for the children eg floppy gets left behind by mistake and then they have to hope the key will take them back to rescue him in the next book, or in another adventure Kipper comes back from an adventure "black and white" and this really confuses mum and dad who almost find out about the key.

If you are really that sad go to bookshop and read them . I have to confess that I did this when DD was on stage 3 and I knew she should be higher - I went to bookshop to look through the next few levels to see roughly where she should be.

My DCs are at secondary now, but I used to love them, and so did they. Some of them made me think of Tintin books.

I used to get them out of their book bags to read them first...

DS1 is on ORT level 10, now, and thankfully wasn't expected to read every single sodding book on the way. He rather obstreperously refuses to have anything to do with most of them, now, since so many of the higher level books are just so dull to his 6 year old mind, so ends up with other readers of similar levels.

I dared present him with "The Spaghetti Suit," the other day and the resulting shitstorm was quite spectacular. And there was me thinking he'd actually find that one funny

I missed out on the joy of levels 1-5, since he jumped straight in at level 6 at the beginning of reception. Maybe DS2 will give us the thrill of going up and down escalators