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    The Naming of Tishkin Silk
    The Naming of Tishkin Silk
    The Naming of Tishkin Silk
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    The Naming of Tishkin Silk

    By Glenda Millard and Caroline Magerl

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    A heart-warming, tender junior novel about family, love, loss and home by the author of the wonderful WHEN THE ANGELS CAME.
    Griffin has a secret in his heart that nobody else knows - until he meets Layla. Griffin Silk is an uncommon sort of boy, from an uncommon sort of family, and when he meets Layla, a princess with a daisy-chain crown, he knows he's found a friend. So Griffin shares his inner thoughts with Layla and together they find a way to deal with his secret. Just like the mythical beast whose name he bears, Griffin has uncommon courage and the heart of a lion. But it will take a friend like Layla to help him find the answers to his biggest questions. this unique and tender novel is the first book in Glenda Millard's award-winning Kingdom of Silk series, and will touch the heart of every reader.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateJan 1, 2011
    ISBN9780730495475
    The Naming of Tishkin Silk
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    Glenda Millard

    Glenda Millard is a writer of great talent who has the ability to write across all genres and age groups - from picture books to junior fiction to YA novels. Her first novel about the Silk family, The Naming of Tishkin Silk, was published in 2003 by ABC Books. It was shortlisted in the CBC Book of the Year Awards and for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. She has also had numerous picture books and children's novels published, including, most recently, Duck, Apple, Egg, illustrated by Martina Heiduczek.

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      The Naming of Tishkin Silk - Glenda Millard

      1. An Uncommon Boy

      Griffin came into the Silk family after Scarlet, Indigo, Violet, Amber and Saffron. He came early in the morning on that uncommon day, the twenty-ninth of February. His father’s prediction, considering the date of Griffin’s birth, was that he would be an uncommon sort of boy.

      Perhaps he was, thought Griffin ruefully. For the first time in his life, he wished he’d been born on the twenty-eighth day of February or even the first of March. Maybe then he would have been an ordinary boy instead. If he were an ordinary boy, maybe Mama wouldn’t have gone away. Maybe his secret thoughts wouldn’t have changed everything.

      Griffin had never felt his uncommonness until today, the day he had started school, and then only because the other children had made him aware of it. Even then, he wouldn’t have minded being uncommon, if only he could have stayed at home to learn with Mama, like his older sisters had.

      It wasn’t fair.

      Mama had taught him well. Miss Beaumont, the teacher, said he was a grade ahead of other students his age and put him into a class where all the children were older than him. Some of them sniggered to each other behind cupped hands when the teacher introduced him.

      ‘Please welcome Griffin Silk,’ she said. ‘It’s Griffin’s first day and I want you all to make him feel welcome.’

      And later on when he had correctly answered some of her questions, he heard loudly whispered comments about him being ‘teacher’s pet’, so he decided not to answer any more.

      At lunchtime it was even worse.

      ‘So, is it Mister Griffin?’ asked one of the boys, with his face uncomfortably close to Griffin’s.

      ‘No, just Griffin. Daddy named me after the mythical beast.’

      ‘Oh, the mythical beast!’

      The boy who had spoken first doubled over with laughter, holding his sides as though they hurt, and the others joined in.

      When they tired of laughing at the explanation of his name, they pulled at the stiff new cloth of the grey school shorts and pale blue shirt that Nell had bought him. They stood on his elastic-sided boots, the gritty soles of their dirty sneakers grinding into the shiny leather of Griffin’s boots.

      He felt someone tug his long hair. ‘Why don’t ya get a hair cut, ya girl?’

      ‘Leave it, you might catch nits off him,’ said the tallest boy, the one they called Scotty. Griffin stared into his lunch box and wished they would go away. But he felt the wooden slatted seat bow beneath him and from the corner of his eye he saw Scotty sit down close by.

      ‘So, Mister Griffin, I’ve heard there’s a whole tribe of you Silks live up on the hill. How come none of the others come to school here?’

      ‘We all learnt at home from Mama, till she got sick. My sisters go to high school on the bus now,’ Griffin explained. His eyes were fixed on the unopened sandwiches which Nell had made for him. ‘How many sisters ya got?’ ‘There’s Scarlet and Indigo and Violet and Amber and Saffron and … ’

      ‘Geez, what sorta names are they? Did ya Daddy name them all after some imaginary critters too, did he?’ The other boys laughed at Scotty’s cleverness.

      ‘Oh no, Daddy calls them his Rainbow Girls. You see, my grandma Nell’s favourite colour is scarlet and Mama’s favourite flowers are violets and … ’

      ‘So, you’re the baby, huh?’ interrupted Scotty rudely. ‘Little Mister Griffin, the bubby beast.’

      ‘No!’ Griffin had had enough. Recklessly he slammed the lid of his lunch box shut and stood up. He looked up at Scotty and his band of supporters. They stood on a forest of battered legs with scabby knees and filthy,

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