“It wasn’t his fault nits loved him. Henry’s head was a gathering place for nits far and wide. They probably held nit parties there and foreign nits visited him in their holidays. Mum dragged the nit comb across Henry’s head. She made a face and groaned. ‘You are crawling with nits, Henry,” said Mum.”
“In the last week of the holidays. I was feeling glum. I could hardly wait for school to start; neither could mum.
Now we’ve been back a week, I could do with a breather. I can hardly wait for the holidays; Teacher can’t either.”
“Erica fears that she may well die of boredom before the holiday is over, but then chances takes her to Polthorpe and the world’s smallest industrial state, where she finds Elsie Wainwright and Bunny.”
“Ivy was the only orphan at St. Agnes’s who had no one to go to on Christmas Eve. But she pretended she had a grandmother, and she wished her wish very hard...”
“During the holidays at exactly a quarter to twelve, the king would appear at the window and everyone would shout and throw their hats into the sky - praising him. ”