from one of those,” I said. “That’s on the list already.”
“Frankie Day’s got a bike,” Iggy said.
“What sort of bike?”
“A brilliant one. It’s got tassels on the handlebars and a bell. It’s got a basket for stuff at the front and a special seat for teddies at the back.”
“Wow,” I said. “What colour is it?”
“Pink and purple.”
“What colour bike would you have if you could?”
“Pink and purple,” Iggy said. “If I could, I’d have one exactly the same.”
“So write it down.”
Next to 2: Iggy put A bike like Frankie’s, and she drew it too, with tassels and a bear all strapped in behind the saddle.
When she had finished we both looked at it. “I’d really like one of those,’ she said.
I said, “That’s why it’s number two on your list, because you’d really like it.”
“So,” Iggy said, “if I didn’t really want something, it would be really later on in the list.”
“Exactly,” I said. “Like what?”
“Like poo on a stick, or to have to kiss a frog, or get tickled till I’m sick.”
“Those could be really low down on your list,” I said. “Or you could just not put them there at all.”
“What else?” she said. “What else do I want that other people have got?”
“I don’t know,” I said. I told her about my best friend Star. She’s got a plug-in piano in her bedroom. I’d really like one.
“Noah Green has got a telly in his bedroom,” Iggy said. “Shall I want one of those?”
“Don’t bother,” said Dad, walking past with his cup of coffee. “It will never happen.”
Iggy screwed her face up with more thinking. “I know,” she said. “I like Elsa Russell’s shoes.”
“What are they like?”
“They are red trainers with her own name on. She made them on the computer and they arrived in a box.”
She put 3: Shoes with my name on, and she drew them too. The way Iggy draws shoes is funny. They looked like big boats.
“What about clothes?” I said. “Would some new clothes be good?”
Iggy chewed her pencil. She wrote 4: A party dress for my party.
Then without any help at all, Iggy wrote and drew
5: A treehouse with curtains
6: A trampoline
7: A doll with real hair you can cut and not get told off
8: A clock like Gabe Turner
“What sort of clock has Gabe got?” I said.
“It barks like a dog,” Iggy said. “He brought it in for Show and Tell. It’s funny.”
“Ooh!” she said, and she wrote 9: Pants with days of the week on.
“Those,” she said, “are actually quite useful.”
“Let’s think of one more,” I said. “Then you’ve got ten things. That’s a pretty good list.”
“Easy,” she said.
10: A hamster
“You already wrote that,” I said.
I know,” said Iggy. “But I especially, doubly want it.”
She took the list to show Mum and Dad. They had swapped places. Mum was reading in the deck chair and Dad was digging.
“Very good,” Dad said.
“Great pictures,” said Mum.
“Where do I put it?” said Iggy.
“Somewhere it won’t get lost,” said Mum.
“Where’s that?” Dad said. (Things are always getting lost in our house.)
“Put it on the fridge,” I said. Mum puts important pieces of paper there. “Put it on the fridge with a magnet.”
Iggy ran off, flapping her list.
“What does she want then, Flo?” Dad said when Iggy was gone.
“She wants a hamster.”
“She wants two hamsters,” Mum said, “according to that list.”
“And apart from two hamsters?” Dad said.
“She wants a bike,” I said. “She wants a pink and purple bike with tassels on the handlebars, and a bell and a basket, and a seat for teddies.”
Just then Iggy ran out with her list again. “I thought of another thing!”
“What is it?” I said.
“I need an ambulance.”
“A what?”
“An ambulance for my toy hospital,” she said.
11: Ambulance for teddies
And, “Oh!” she said.
12: Shelf for my books
And, “Oh yes!”
13: A pretend phone that looks really really real
And then, “Just one more…”
14: A HAMSTER
When Mum and Dad woke me up in the morning I heard a strange sound. It was Iggy.
Iggy normally sings and chatterboxes when we are waking up, but today she was just groaning. It was quite loud.
“Can you hear that?” said Mum.
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