After my event at the Edinburgh Book Festival in August, a group of children and their teacher came to speak to me. They were from Broughton Primary School in Edinburgh and they asked me to sign a copy of I Do Not Eat the Colour Green for the P2 class. One of the children had a little problem with the title of my book. His name was Cammy and he LOVED the colour green!
When the class got back to school, they decided to write a new story. They planned it out carefully, and did all the illustrations themselves. When it was ready, they made it into a specially bound book and sent it to me! Their book is called I Only Eat the Colour Green, and it is so brilliant I want to share it with you here:
Isn’t that an amazing story? Cammy learns a good lesson about eating well, just like Marlene does in my story. As well as this brilliant book, the children sent me some lovely letters. I would like to say thank you to Lara, Douglas, Katie W, Katie T, Orlaith, Komal, Lewis, Maya and Katherine. A big thank you too to Miss Chalmers who helped the children with this fantastic project. I am so impressed!
Lynne Rickards author 
What a fantastic response, and what a fabulous teacher Miss Chalmers must be!
This is just brilliant! Think I will include it in my blog for our students to look at and maybe get ideas for making books with their own classes.
The very best thing a creative work can do is inspire creative work in others. Congratulations to both you and Primary 2 at Broughton Primary School for such a lovely chain of creations!
It is a brilliant creation and something I will always treasure. Thanks for your lovely comment!
Oh, I love this – especially after the way “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” just got mugged by the diet police here in Australia!
That book is SENSATIONAL, what clever children, did they work as a team? It’s a great idea and the pictures are BEAUTIFUL.
well done P2! and thanks to Lynne for inspiring them:) love reading stories in English to my 3-5 year old students in Portugal – I think I’ll have to read them this story too!
The boys and girls in Primary 2 at Broughton Primary would like to say thank you for all the lovely comments about their book. It was a very exciting project that we are still doing some work on! Thank you Melanie Chalmers (class teacher)