The Truth Pixie Goes to School. Matt Haig

      Aada started a new school,

       And the pixie came too.

      But this school was a place

       Where it was hard to be true.

      ‘Infinity,’ said the maths teacher,

      ‘Is the largest number ever!’

      ‘Nope,’ said the pixie.

      ‘Oh,’ Teacher sighed. ‘So you think you are clever?’

      ‘Not really,’ said the pixie.

      ‘But there’s a rabbit called Bangly-Bon,

      Who says there’s a number that’s

      In a history lesson,

      The pixie was amused,

      Because history was a subject

      That left her confused.

      ‘It seems strange,’

      She told the very strict teacher,

      ‘That your history

      Is full of only one creature.’

      ‘There are no dogs,

      Pixies or even elves.

      It seems like humans

      Are obsessed with themselves!’

      Aada was embarrassed,

       And turned bright red,

       Every time the pixie

       Said what she said.

      And outside, later on,

      When the lesson was sports,

      The pixie was laughed at,

      In her silly yellow shorts.

      She couldn’t catch a ball

      And she couldn’t run fast,

      And in every single race

      She always came last.

      The children thought

      The pixie was strange.

      They laughed at her difference

      And they didn’t like change.