In commemoration of what is the most popular toy, probably in all human history, the STICK!! I remember as a child hiding the best sticks in a neighbours hedge as a sort of community resource. I know it's small boys playing war but that's what we did and I think that's what small boys want to do - despite the best efforts of educators like me -actually I turn a blind eye to the boys in my class making guns out of the construction toys. Although I do remember a teacher catching a bunch of small boys shooting each other with a set of guns and upon asking a boy what he'd made he replied as quick as anything 'A lawnmower'. I also know a teacher with two small boys who wouldn't let them have guns, gave them dolls to dress up and look after and all that. One morning she found them in the garden 'shooting' each other with triangles of toast. Of course I remember I was particularly good at 'dying' which was as much fun as the shooting!!
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my father had... has a gun in our cupboard at home... and whenever he wasn't around i'd take it out and aim at birds trying pretending to shoot at them... one day while trying to take it out of the cupboard i broke it in half(the wooden part)... :P
he doesn't know till date that i did it.. :)
Fabulous tale, fabulous illustration. Love the sound effects! What guns are to little boys, horses are to little girls and our sticks were 'ridden' over hill and dale.
Great illo - I can just hear the rowdy yell and guffaws!
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