Last year, it was. We had this Book Week. A person came from a publisher’s to tell us all about how books were made and an author came to tell us how she writes her stories, and at the end of the week we all dressed up as Characters from Literature and did a quiz. I got two prizes! One was for dressing up as Pocahontas (I would really like to have dressed up as Posy, from Ballet Shoes, but I didn’t think anyone would recognise me) and the other was for coming second in the quiz. I was given two book tokens and I spent them on a book about Darcey!!! When I got the prize for being Pocahontas I heard Greta Lundquist whisper to Susie Smith, “You know why they gave it to her?” and I saw Susie nod. They weren’t being nasty, or anything. I mean, they didn’t know that I could hear. But I wondered if that was what everyone else was thinking and if I really had only been given the prize because of people feeling sorry for me. I don’t want people to feel sorry for me! It is horrid when you think that they are looking at you and thinking things.
