random post about Oxford Reading Tree 'Mum's new Hat

[puffling]

Is the artist having a laugh? If you look at page 17, there is clearly a gentleman of ill repute peering out of a bush on Hampstead Common.

Is it that dodgy school caretaker by any chance?

There are oftne dodgy characters arent there?

Mums new hat is the one where they are going to a wedding and the hat blows away yes?

Yes indeed and there's clearly a moustachioed gentleman, distracted from his activities by mum's new hat.

they have to put stuff like that in to stop you going totally insane when reading them ( dyslexic daughter, poor memory, ORT went on for what seemed like a lifetime)

The bloke with the moustach is ORT equivalent of Alfred Hitchcock who always appeared briefly somewhere in the background in a scene in each of his films.