One evening it dissolves and Sid decides to re-write it from memory in effect, becoming Gould, just as Gould ultimately metamorphoses into a fish, taking Sid with him into his new element.
Nearly a third were unable to read 20 common words, while 17% of the children were still at the basic stage of writing and could not write their own name or other words frommemory - an increase from 15% last year.