Fly while you sleep." She delights in unpicking and unpacking language, although she passes over educational jargon such as "Sats" and "pupil referral unit" with contempt.īesides making adult readers share the author's fury at the failure of Mina's school to meet her halfway on her journey, this account of how her zest for living overcomes her temporary isolation and lingering sadness at the loss of her father is also a tale that will draw in young readers of her age and above.
Instead of the worksheets that blight her life at school, she devises her own "extraordinary activities", such as: "Go to sleep. She charts her own helter-skelter learning journey with wordplay, typographic teasing and many joyful detours. Mina is bright, passionate and brimming with energy, but finds her primary school stifling and restrictive.
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