The Virgin Mary's Got Nits

A touching and hilarious gift book of poetry and prose on the subject of children and Christmas from the Yorkshire school inspector and bestselling author of the Dales series and Little Village School series.

Dr Gervase Phinn is a teacher, freelance lecturer, author, poet, educational consultant and visiting professor of education. For fourteen years he taught in a range of schools, then acted as General Adviser for Language Development in Rotherham before moving on to North Yorkshire, where he spent ten years as a school inspector - time that has provided much source material for his books. He has four grown up children and four grandchildren and lives near Doncaster. Visit Gervase's website, www.gervase-phinn.com.

I had been invited by the head teacher to see the rehearsal of the infant Nativity play. As I walked up the path to the school, I stopped a small boy with a shock of ginger hair. 'I'm here to see the Nativity play,' I told him. 'Well, it's off!' he told me bluntly. 'It's off?' I repeated. The boy raised his hand to his head and scratched his scalp. 'Aye, t'Virgin Mary's got nits!'

A touching and hilarious gift book of poetry and prose on the subject of children and Christmas from the Yorkshire school inspector and bestselling author of the Dales series and Little Village School series.

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