The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked

by David Baddiel

  “Loudly. Like you did last time.”

  “OK,” said Barry. “Ahem.” He didn’t know why he said that. It just felt appropriate. “I wish I had better parents.” He opened his eyes. “Why? Why do I have to say tha—”

  He was stopped from finishing the question by noticing that both Lionel and James Bond were waving at him. Little waves: like goodbye ones.

  Barry frowned.

  Then the glow behind the posters got super-strong, and the wall vanished in a huge burst of white light.

  Find out what happens next in:

  Fred and Ellie are twins. But not identical (because that’s impossible for a boy and a girl). They do like all the same things, though. Especially video games. Which they are very good at. They aren’t that good, however, at much else – like, for example, football, or dealing with the school bullies.

  Then they meet the Mystery man, who sends them a video game controller, which doesn’t look like any other controller they’ve ever seen. And it doesn’t control any of their usual games. When the twins find out what it does control though, it seems like the answer to all their problems. At least it seems like that …

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