Dear Alice,

I do know what you mean about how some people treat books really badly. I remember one time Lucas Terrazzo borrowed The Three Little Pigs from the school library and he didn’t like the ending. You know, how the wolf eats them all or whatever? So he drew this army of zombie pigs with laser eyes that just chased the wolf until he vomited up the three little pigs and then the wolf had to promise to go back to university and retrain as an air conditioner repairman. I mean, I actually like Lucas Terrazzo’s version MUCH better than the original, but I didn’t really want that kind of thing to happen to MY books!

You’re right, though, this does leave us with a bit of a problem. Hmmm … where CAN we get HEAPS of free books, Right now???

I’ve got it! I know a place where there’s HEAPS of books – the library! And library books are free and also awesome!!! We can just borrow the books from there! Okay, so I know we’re not technically allowed to borrow from the library at the moment but technically this should be FINE because technically we won’t be borrowing them, we’ll be lending them!

Yours suddenly,

Jimmy Cook