Sunday, December 28, 2008

My New Shirt by Cary Fagan, illustrated by Dusan Petricic

From chapters.ca:
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.

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