Receiving the yearly birthday gift from his grandmother has become David's living nightmare. The "surprise" she always has for him never varies. How can he stop this never-ending flow of stiff, white, scratchy shirts - "perfect gentlemen" shirts that make him squirm and pull and shift and twitch? David closes his eyes and imagines a long line of shirts - one for every year of his life - stretching on forever. Then suddenly, without really intending to, he has done the unthinkable.
"DAVID!" his mother screams. And when David opens his eyes, there are his mother, his father, and his bubbie staring at him. The shirt is no longer in his hands. He has thrown it out the window! Now it is out on the street, in the jaws of his dog, and the very merry chase is on.
Bitingly funny and keenly observed, My New Shirt is graphically presented as a photo album commemorating David's desperate act of liberation from a family tradition badly in need of a change.
| ISBN: | 9780887767159 |
| Publication date: | 11th September 2007 |
| Author: | Cary Fagan |
| Illustrator: | Dusan Petricic |
| Publisher: | Tundra |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 32 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction Children’s / Teenage general interest: Celebrations, holidays, festivals and special events Children’s / Teenage general interest: Clothing and fashion Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Hair and hair care Funny |
Receiving the yearly birthday gift from his grandmother has become David's living nightmare. The "surprise" she always has for him never varies.
My New Shirt features in the following genres: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Celebrations, holidays, festivals and special events, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Clothing and fashion, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Hair and hair care, Funny
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My New Shirt was written by Cary Fagan and published by Tundra
My New Shirt has 32 pages