Caroline Adderson’s Jasper John Dooley: You’re in Trouble is a very funny story for 7 year olds about one can of fizzy drink and a whole week of feeling Bad.<\/p>\n
After football practice, Jasper presses C3 on the vending machine for apple juice. Out rolls a red and black can with a torpedo on the front. It’s Torpedo High Energy Drink, and it’s definitely one of the Bad ones.<\/p>\n
Dad has just had a fright losing sight of him, so he says yes to a sip. Then he asks Jasper not to mention any of it to Mum. The can ends up hidden at the back of the fridge, behind all Mum’s yogurt pots of leftovers.<\/p>\n
And every time Jasper sneaks a few more sips, he gets High Energy. Fast! He burps sixteen times on the drive home. He sculpts his shampoo into horns and leaps out at his parents with a roar. He answers the register at school with “Beep!” and puts on the Saturday pants on a Friday (on purpose!).<\/p>\n
What I love is how seriously Jasper takes his own Badness. His bike skid leaves a smoky black mark in the alley, and he’s sure it’s a black mark against him that the whole street can see. Who hasn’t been seven and felt like the naughtiest person alive over something tiny?<\/p>\n
The grown-ups are funny too. Dad’s big idea for football is to pretend the ball is a jug of milk. It sort of works, just not in the way anyone expected (Jasper spends the match as a beeping bee, stinging the other team with his finger).<\/p>\n
The sentences are short and bouncy, with lots of “so so so” and capital letters for the Bad things, so it’s lovely to read aloud or on their own. There’s a real kindness in it as well. His Nan calls him the best boy she knows, and Jasper very much doesn’t want to stop being that.<\/p>\n
It might start a chat about energy drinks at your house, which is no bad thing. Mum is very clear they’re not for kids.<\/p>\n
If this goes down well, Jasper John Dooley: Lost and Found brings back Jasper, his friend Ori and Wednesdays at Nan’s, this time with a box of old toys and a very special orange mouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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