Piri’s Big All Black Dream
Jared Bell, ill. Jimmy Diaz
PuffinNZ NZ$20
Piri’s Big All Black Dream comes covered with registered
trademarks, copyright statements and an “official licensed product” holographic
sticker. Because the story is a simple one, it is repeated several times. If
you have a dream, you can achieve it. Piri, a little Kiwi boy, dreams of being
a rugby star, so he practises every day, eats his vegetables and – er - dreams
of being a rugby star. “No dream is too big and no dreamer too small.” After
years of working towards his dream, “Piri and his team became champion of the
world.” Yes, Piri Weepu wore the Silver Fern® as an All Black®. Just as he dreamed.
A better book would have told us something about Piri Weepu.
All we learn here is that his best friends are a gecko, a kiwi and (apparently)
a kookaburra. Oh, and that he had a dream.
