I-SPY AT THE SCHOOL GATE: My Mum’s Better Than Your Mum
From Sam Jordison, author of the bestselling Crap Towns series, comes I-SPY for Grown-ups.The I-SPY concept is very simple: it’s like the ‘I spy with my little eye’ game, only instead of all the tedious stuff about ‘something beginning with’, there are pictures and descriptions and genuine opportunities to use your sleuthing skills to discover interesting things. This can be alarming – but when turned into a sport, it’s also fun.At the school gates, everyone is childish. You’ll see over-excitement, sexual tension, poor discipline, bad language, bullying, and temper tantrums. Especially among the parents. It really is a world unto itself – with unique fauna and its own complex set of social patterns which generally revolve around impenetrable cliques and complicated competitions. They also involve interesting displays of status and costume. All of which provide a simply topping challenge for good I-SPYers.
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Contents
The I-SPY concept is simple. Itâs like the âI spy with my little eyeâ game, only instead of all the tedious stuff about âsomething beginning withâ, there are pictures and descriptions and genuine opportunities to use your sleuthing skills to discover interesting things. And laugh at them. It will greatly improve your thus far ignorant life.
At the school gates, everyone is childish. Youâll see over-excitement, sexual tension, poor discipline, bad language, bullying and temper tantrums. Especially among the parents. It really is a world unto itself â with a unique fauna and its own complex set of social patterns that generally revolve around impenetrable cliques and complicated competitions. There are also interesting displays of status and costume. All of which provide a simply topping challenge for good I-SPYers!
You earn a score every time you spot something pictured in this book. Itâs great fun to add up your scores and know that youâre doing better than your friends and family.
When your score totals over 250, youâre allowed to call yourself an I-SPY Stalwart, second-class honours.
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