Harry the Poisonous Centipede (16 page)

What do you get if you cross a centipede and a parrot?

A walkie-talkie

What do you get if you cross a rose with a poisonous centipede?

I don't know, but I wouldn't like to smell it

Make a Scary Bug Headdress

What you need:

A sheet of thick paper, two pipe cleaners, sticky tape, stapler, 2 pom-poms with holes in them, paper, felt tips, scissors and glue. And an adult to help with the cutting
and
fitting.

What to do:

1
Cut the thick paper in half along the longest side. Fold each piece in half lengthwise.

2
Unfold the pieces and fold the sides in to meet the crease in the middle. Unfold the halves and staple them together to make a long band. Use sticky tape to make the join stronger. Colour the band with felt tips.

3
Now fold the strip back together, coloured side outwards, and stick with tape.

4
Staple and stick the band so it fits your head â you will need help with this! (Cover the staples with tape to stop them scratching you!)

5
Dab a little glue at the end of a pipe cleaner and push it through one of the pom-poms. Do the same for the other pom-pom. Staple and tape the feelers inside the band.

6
Draw eyes on a piece of paper, colour them in and cut them out. Don't forget to put in a little hole in each “eye” so you can see out! Finally, tape the eyes to the band.

The headdress finished. See how scary you look!

About the Author
WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS BOOK
by Ian Whybrow

We've seen unlikely heroes beforeâ¦ misshapen Beasts, Bogeymen, Little Wolves (hem hem)â¦ But who could imagine readers warming to a centipede? A poisonous centipede at that!

It takes a writer as remarkable and original as Lynne Reid Banks to get you to do it. She's always been a great defender of what others might think of as hopeless cases. That's why she has the power to make us rejoice when the venomous Hxzltl (sorryâ¦ Harry) escapes death by drowning, smothering, slapping and foot-squishing. We're delighted for the poor starving thing when he gets to chew on a mole-cricket that's as big to him as a raging bull. We root for this teeny bug in shining armour as he takes on flying-swoopers, belly-crawlers, furry-biters â even when he attacks one of our own kind â a Hoo-min!

As for the bit where he finally gets to explore all the tickly bits of some slumbering Meat-Mountainâ¦ What a nailbiting yuck-fest! What a squirmingly magnificent treat!

Ian Whybrow

Ian Whybrow
has written over 100 books for children, known for their humour and childfriendliness (including quite a few Harry books of his own!). He takes pride in the fact that his work reads aloud very well. “I loved being read to as a child,” he says. “And I loved the sense that my parents were enjoying it too. For me, that's the acid test for any book â that there's something in it for everyone to enjoy.”

Also by the Author

Harry the Poisonous Centipede's Big
Adventure

Harry the Poisonous Centipede Goes to
Sea

The Indian in the Cupboard
Return of the Indian

The Mystery of the Cupboard
The Secret of the Indian
The Key to the Indian

Alice by Accident
Angela and Diabola
The Dungeon
Stealing Stacey

Tiger Tiger
I, Houdini

Copyright

First published in hardback in Great Britain by Collins in 1996 First published in paperback by Collins in 1996. This edition published by Harper Collins Children's Books in 2012. Harper Collins Children's Books is a division of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
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Text copyright Â© Lynne Reid Banks 1996
Illustrations copyright Â© Tony Ross 1996
Why You'll Love This Book copyright Â© Ian Whybrow 2010

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