i bought this book - Squids Will Be Squids - back in the 90's when the UCA Assembly was meeting in Adelaide. I found it in Mary Martin's in Rundle Street, and it became a big hit with the "youthful members" whom I was resourcing for the week. we pretty much had a bedtime story every night.
it's a delightfully sick and twisted set of fables. The chapter titles tell it all... "Termite, Ant & Echidna", "Piece of Toast & Froot Loops", "Duckbilled Platypus vs. BeefSnakStick".
but this is a particular favourite:
"Gee ... I wonder"
Shark, Wasp and Bacteria ate lunch together every day.
"No one else ever sits with us," said Shark, ripping into his tuna sandwich with his double row of huge razor-sharp teeth. "What's their problem?"
"We're just misunderstood," said Wasp, stabbing his pizza and injecting it again and again with paralysing venom.
"It's just not fair, saaid Bactiera, infecting her pudding. "Why won't anyone give us a chance?"
The Moral: Think about it.
(If you behave well, boys and girls, I might read you another one tomorrow night.)
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