Jim Jam (The College Collection Set 1 - for reluctant readers)

By Georgina Jonas

Jim Jam likes everything to be neat and tidy and in the right place. But when it comes to spelling, all the letters seem to get in a jumble. What will she do?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Crown House Publishing
• Release date: Aug 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781785831362

Georgina Jonas

Georgina Jonas - the pen name for the collective talent and expertise of one full-time teacher, who has also been a children's storyteller, and one former headmistress who currently tutors and leads workshops to show parents the best way to help their children with maths and English.

Book preview

Chapter 1

To Name or Not to Name

When I was born my parents found it hard to decide what to call me.

They couldn’t decide whether to call me Jemima or Samantha.

Jemima Leverton or Samantha Leverton ? Both sounded good.

For a week they tried them both out.

One day they called me Jemima, and then the next day they called me Samantha. That didn’t work. It was confusing.

They still couldn’t make up their minds.

Then they started calling me both names together.

Jemima Samantha, they’d say.

It was a bit of a mouthful, so they shortened it to Jem Sam!

My older sister was three when I was born and she got terribly muddled and kept getting it wrong.

She couldn’t remember Jem Sam.

Jim Jam, she’d say ... and it stuck.

So, although my full name is Jemima Samantha Leverton, I have always been called Jim Jam.

Chapter 2

Tidying

My earliest memories are of my sister and brother saying, Mum, Jim Jam’s tidying again.

I didn’t see it that way. I wasn’t tidying.

I was putting things straight, back in their proper place, if you like.

It always seemed to me that everything has a proper place.

Pencils like to be straight. They like to be pointing straight upwards in pencil holders or lying flat in straight rows on the desk.

Small cushions like to be sitting up, usually with one corner pointing up, while handles on cupboards and chests of drawers definitely like to be pointing down.

Photos like their frames to be lined up with the shelf so that they can get a good look around the room.

Toilet rolls particularly fascinate me.

My family used to get quite worried about the amount of time I was spending in the loo.

They thought that I might be in some