Year 4

After their reading of Drew Daywalt's The Day the Crayons Quit, Year 4 created their own collection of letters.

Mihail - Whitechapel

The Disgraceful Children of Year 4

Willow Brook Primary School

190 Church Road

Leyton

E10 7BH

Dear disgraceful children of Year 4,

It is with remorse and sorrow that we, the pencils, have decided to quit! Wanna know why? We are exhausted because we are being used 24/7, and we have had enough!

Another thing is that you always sharpen us, and we are getting stubbier and stubbier. Have you ever heard about the boy who put his fingers in the sharpener by mistake? If you don't change your ways, we will take revenge for all the pencils you have sharpened.

If you don't stop sharpening us, we will break away from our awful, disgusting prison. Do you know how it makes us feel? Horrible! We have been betrayed by you awful children, and we all had enough!

To conclude this letter, I say that you use us more lightly and slowly, or we will sign off for better and greater children.

Yours sincerely,

The exhausted, outraged and tired pencils.

Adrian - Serpentine

Willow Brook Primary School

190 Church Road

London

E10 7BH

Dear despicable, nasty and horrible children of Year 4,

You, all of you, are filling us with RAGE! By the way, it is us, the chairs; we really need to talk!

Now listen. How would you like it to feel if somebody carelessly dragged you across the floor? Stop, please!

You know what? We're quitting! We have just had enough! Stop dragging us across the dirty floor and swinging on us like a toddle on a seesaw, as we are scared you'll fall over. Maybe if this happens, then we will come back, but for now, the answer is definitely no.

To conclude this letter, we are writing to tell you what will happen if you don't stop. Think about what you've done.

Yours faithfully,

The mistreated, seething and fed-up chairs

Maryam - Saatchi

The bad-mannered girl

26 Sunnyside Road

Leyton

London

E10 7BB

Dear moody Maryam,

We are the books writing to you. We know you love reading, BUT the way you treat us is unacceptable. Not to mention the folding pages and the freezing water bit. Also, when your Dad says to go to bed, you fold over pages. Is that how you treat us when we give you knowledge and good vocabulary?

Another reason I am writing to you is because you left us out in the sunlight all day long, squashed with all the other sweaty books (like a chocolate wrapper around a chocolate). Then, the next day, when you were cleaning your room, you dropped us in a bucket of freezing-cold water, dried us with a hairdryer and left us with wrinkled pages! Do you think we have no feelings? Now, here's a novel idea, sell me to a very caring person (someone who cares more than you)!

I wish you never had chosen to buy me. I am extremely unlucky. Indeed, you are such a careless person, who knows nothing about the important word 'caring'! Is this how you treat your younger brother? Huh? Terrible news on your birthday.

If you don't change your ways soon (the minute you finish this letter), there will be some extremely serious consequences. Such as letting you never read the words in your books again.

Yours sincerely,

Your Books

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