Year 3

The Legend of Podkin One-Ear

The Boy Who Grew Dragons by Andy Shepherd

The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig by Emer Stamp

On the Ning Nang Nong

by Spike Milligan

If all the World Were...

by Joseph Coelho

Talking Turkeys

by Benjamin Zephaniah

If all the world were paper

I would fold up my gran and take her everywhere I go.

I would laminate my baby sister in bubble wrap

and lay her to sleep in unbound

fairy-tale book pages and

should she get scared:

Rip every fear,

Shred every scream,

Tear every tear.

If all the world were paper

I would re-bind my grandfather,

smooth out the dog-ears to all

his stories,

place his younger days in a zoetrope

and flush the harrowing chapters

down an ink-gurgling well.

If all the world were paper,

kind deeds would be post-it notes

that stuck to the doer in ever

growing trails,

so we would always remember,

friends would come with perforated lines so you could keep their best bits with you at all times.

If all the world were paper,

Christmas wrapping foil and birthday cards would follow you to school.

If all the world were paper dreams would be Braille so we could read them whilst we slept,

nightmares would be shopping lists

because shopping lists are so easy to forget.

If all the world were paper

arguments would rustle before they started and could be put right with a little tape.

If all the world were paper

we could paperclip families together,

draw smiles on all the sad faces,

rub out the tears,cover our homes in Tipex and start all over again.

All the world is not paper

Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas
Cos' turkeys just wanna hav fun
Turkeys are cool, turkeys are wicked
An every turkey has a Mum.
Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas,
Don't eat it, keep it alive,
It could be yu mate, an not on your plate
Say, Yo! Turkey I'm on your side.
I got lots of friends who are turkeys
An all of dem fear christmas time,
Dey wanna enjoy it, dey say humans destroyed it
An humans are out of dere mind,
Yeah, I got lots of friends who are turkeys
Dey all hav a right to a life,
Not to be caged up an genetically made up
By any farmer an his wife.

Turkeys just wanna play reggae
Turkeys just wanna hip-hop
Can yu imagine a nice young turkey saying,
ÒI cannot wait for de chopÓ,
Turkeys like getting presents, dey wanna watch christmas TV,
Turkeys hav brains an turkeys feel pain
In many ways like yu an me.

I once knew a turkey called........ Turkey
He said "Benji explain to me please,
Who put de turkey in christmas
An what happens to christmas trees?",
I said "I am not too sure turkey
But itÕs nothing to do wid Christ Mass
Humans get greedy an waste more dan need be
An business men mek loadsa cash'.

Be nice to yu turkey dis christmas
Invite dem indoors fe sum greens
Let dem eat cake an let dem partake
In a plate of organic grown beans,
Be nice to yu turkey dis christmas
An spare dem de cut of de knife,
Join Turkeys United an dey'll be delighted
An yu will mek new friends 'FOR LIFE'.