YOU KNOW THE SCRATCHY BROWN PAPER TOWELS they use in the school washroom? Wouldn’t that be just the right paper for an ogre newspaper? And if your pen smeared, so what? THE OGRE NEWS could report on ogre sports… announce the opening of new ogre stores (what would they sell?)… or write reviews of GREAT ogre books, for instance:
Awful Ogre’s Awful Day
by Jack Prelutsky, illus. Paul O. Zelinsky Greenwillow 0688077781
Zeralda’s Ogre
by Tomi Ungerer Roberts Rinehart Publishers 1570982678
Ogre Eats Everything
by Bethany Roberts, illus. Marsha Winborn Dutton 0525472916
Sugar, Gronny’s ogre sister, is on the left. She wants to be a painter when she grows up. Her favorite colors are slug and mushroom.
Gronny’s Uncle Sag is in the middle. When he was drawn, he was modeled after an old potato. Then he ate it.
The new ogre baby is on the end. It doesn’t have a name yet. Can you think of a good one? At the moment the family is considering calling him Blodge Pukeykins.
Here is an ogre joke: What is an ogre baby after it’s five days old?
The answer: Six days old.
Imagine a whole ogre community.
What kinds of beds would ogres have? What would Ogre Elementary School be like? Can you even imagine ogre teenagers?!?!?
Would ogres have pets? What would they be like? Probably lizards.
Can you plan an ogre birthday party?
Ogre Questions from Ogre Fun:
- How do you think ogres make their jam become so blue?
- What would you say if someone offered you slugs on toast?
- What is the ogres’ “song”?
- What’s Gronny teaching his Pogre (his Dad) on the last page?
SLANG WORDS FOR “MOUTH”
IN OGRE FUN:
yapgob
Invent one of your own.