Book Week: Round 2

While Rachel decided exactly one week before the day what she would be, Sophie's costume and preparation was a little more generous on the timing. We talked about books that she liked to read and let her know I would make a costume for her. When she went to the bookshelf to start getting books out for a shortlist, I started to get worried, because she chose a lot of elephant books. Like Elmer.

So I drew a line and suggested that I would be happy to make a person costume, but not an elephant costume. Luckily, she wasn't stuck on the elephant idea and we managed to find something else. Whew.

Sophie decided to go as Sophie.

Kills me every time. The main character in The Tiger Who Came to Tea, is a little girl called Sophie, who is having tea with her mum when a Tiger knocks on the door. I won't give away any spoilers, but it's a really cute and fun book. I don't know why more people don't know of it! Sophie went to see a stage play of it when she was three, and has a beloved Tiger toy as well.

What makes it even better is that Sophie's costume is very easy. Long sleeved blue shirt, purple tunic, tights, blue hair ribbon and black shoes. Sophie herself even thought about it and told me she had a blue shirt that would work, just when I was all resigned to going to the shops. We colored in some white tights to match, and I just picked up a metre of purple fabric for $4.00 from Spotlight for the tunic. Done.

Sophie and Star Tiger had a great time at school for Book Week. What a successful first year of Book Week!